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Eight years after its release, Pokémon GO remains the highest-grossing mobile AR game in the world. The AppMagic analytical service estimated that the total user spending in it exceeds $ 8 billion* with 656.6 million downloads.
Joost van Dreunen, best known as co-founder and former head of the now-closed research firm SuperData, has opened up about Sensor Tower’s acquisition of data.ai. The analyst is not enthusiastic about the new monopoly emerging in the mobile data market.
VG Insights recently released a report on the state of free-to-play games on Steam. It takes a deep into the most played titles and the main trends in the area.
In March, Sensor Tower, an analytical company, announced the purchase of a rival company data.ai . Joost van Dreunen, founder and CEO of the now-closed SuperData, shared his opinion on the deal in his newsletter. He is pessimistic.
Swiss mobile publisher Miniclip has announced a new M&A deal by acquiring UK studio FuturLab best known for its successful sim PowerWash Simulator.
Sensor Tower has published a study of the mobile games market. Among the key trends are falling downloads and sales registers.
Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch has opened up about the company’s split from Embracer Group. He also tried to explain why the Swedish holding company shouldn’t be viewed as the “evil empire.”
Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2024 report. Here are the key takeaways, including revenue and download data, as well as the main trends across various genres and regions.
The document is called the Mobile Ad Creative Index. Its focus is on the average cost of advertising for various types of creatives. One of the verticals considered by the authors of the work is mobile games.
With the support of the AppMagic service, the App2Top editorial board has prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.
Newzoo has released a detailed report on the state of the PC and console games market. Here are the key takeaways, including revenues, growth rates, playtime, and more.
The analytical company Newzoo has published a large-scale study on the state of the PC and console games market at the beginning of 2024. We share the key points from it.
Epic Games has been actively developing the UGC side of Fortnite for a while now, attracting thousands of third-party creators and paying them hundreds of millions of dollars in total. Here is how so-called engagement payouts are distributed among developers.
The analytical company Newzoo studied the success of the cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 in February. We share the main conclusions from the report.
At the beginning of the week, Sensor Tower announced the purchase of an analytical company data.ai . It became known that after the deal data.ai She cut about 200 employees.
The publisher of Playstack and the developer of LocalThunk, in an interview with gaming expert Simon Carless, discussed the success of the already hit poker "bagel" Balatro. We chose the main thing from the conversation.
Sensor Tower buys data.ai (former App Annie)
· a month agoConsolidation in the mobile analytics market. Sensor Tower service has announced the acquisition of its key competitor — data.ai .
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella has shared his thoughts on the current state of the video game market. He expects 2024 to be a tough year with a high level of uncertainty around sales, hardware, and content.
Hicham Nouhou, head of Tencent's publishing division in Russia and the CIS, estimated the Russian gaming market at this amount. He announced his data at a meeting of the working group of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on esports.
At the end of February, the AppMagic analytical service prepared a study of the casual games market for mobile devices. We tell you about the most important of them.
UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has shared its annual report on the country’s video game market. Here are the key findings about last year’s best-selling titles and consoles, as well as total consumer spend by segments.
Based on the data of the AppMagic analytical platform, the App2Top editorial board has prepared material on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.
Gaming expert Simon Carless revealed in a recent newsletter the gross revenue of a number of notable new products in 2024 on Steam. He used data from the analytical service GameDiscoverCo.
Astrum Entertainment conducted a study on female gamers and gender stereotypes in games. To do this, she interviewed more than 9 thousand people. Of these, 7.8 thousand are men, and 1.2 thousand are women.
Epic Games has reportedly become the victim of a cyberattack. As a result, the company’s internal information was stolen by a hacker group under the name Mogilevich.
Despite strong revenue growth, many investors and analysts were disappointed by the performance of Sony’s gaming business in the most recent fiscal quarter. The main reason was the company’s declining margins.
Dmitry Filatov, CEO of the Narwhal gaming accelerator, published some statistics on gaming companies on his DogDog telegram channel. He tried to calculate how many video game-related organizations there are in the world right now: publishers, game development studios, outsourcing studios, platforms, game investors and others. He also looked at which countries their headquarters are located in.
What were the biggest trends in VC investment deals across the games industry in 2023 and which ones will remain relevant this year? This is an overview by legal experts Anna Solovei and Viktoryia Semianitskaya, representing REVERA law group.
In the second half of 2023, IT specialists in Russia earned less than at the beginning of the year. According to Habr Career estimates, the median salary fell the most among game developers — by 28% to 128 thousand rubles.
Games and Names, an industry podcast launched by AppMagic in partnership with WN Media Group, is back. The first episode of 2024 is all about LiveOps and the main challenges that mobile developers may face in this area.
The analytical company Newzoo has published a forecast for the global gaming market for 2024. She expects the market to earn $189.3 billion next year, 2.8% more than in 2023.
The growth rate of revenue from subscriptions has slowed down. This was stated by Mat Piscatella, executive Director and analyst at Circana (formerly NPD).
Last year, the number of downloads of games in the Russian Google Play and App Store increased by 4% to almost 3 billion. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to the data of the analytical platform data.ai .
Analytical service data.ai I published a report on the state of the mobile application market last year. Here are the main facts from his chapter on mobile gaming.
The year 2023 was remembered by the gaming industry for massive cuts. The wave of layoffs affected both indie studios and corporations: Embracer Group, CD PROJEKT, Ubisoft, Telltale Games, Blackbird Interactive, Ascendant Studios and many other video game-related companies announced layoffs. According to the portal videogamelayoffs.com Since January, 10,466 specialists have lost their jobs.
We continue to summarize the results of 2023 with the gaming (or related to the gaming sector) teams. Next up is an interview with Polina Zalyaeva, business development manager at the Artvostok outsourcing studio.
This year’s last episode of Games and Names, a games industry podcast launched by AppMagic in partnership with WN Media Group, wraps up 2023 for the mobile games market and the industry in general. Here is a recap of the main trends and the biggest challenges that developers and publishers have faced over the past 12 months.
Our colleagues from the British edition of GamesIndustry have collected in a single infographic the main figures of the gaming industry for the year 2023 coming to the end. We share.
Analytics firm Newzoo has put together some data on the state global games market in 2023 and shared its forecast for the future. The company also listed this year’s best-performing titles in terms of revenue and active players.
More sales data on PlayStation’s first-party games has emerged as a result of a ransomware attack suffered by Insomniac Games. It also includes information about titles like Bloodborne and Days Gone, figures for which Sony hasn’t updated in years.
In a world where more than 1,000 games are released every month, even quality titles run the risk of not recouping their development costs. Here are the lessons indie studio Pixelsplit learned from the launch of its theme park sim Indoorlands.
Despite many great releases, 2023 hasn’t been all that good (to put it mildly) for people making games. Here are the prevailing sentiments among developers about the current state of the market and the possible future.
SuperScale has published the report Good Games Don’t Die, which was commissioned by Atomik Research. As part of the survey, analysts spoke with 504 mobile game developers from the UK and the USA.
Niko Partners has updated its China Games Market 2023 Half-Year report, sharing new projections for the full year. The country is expected to see a rise in video game revenue after its first-ever decline in 2022.
The Roblox platform has reached a new milestone. According to the estimates of the analytical service AppMagic, in November, total user spending in the mobile version of Roblox exceeded $ 7 billion. Important: this is the amount before the company pays the fees and taxes.
Newzoo has updated its 2023 forecast for the global games market, also analyzing the top 10 game publishers by revenue. Tencent, Sony, and Apple remain the leaders, but big shifts are expected in the second half of the year due to the completion of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Monster Strike, a mobile hit game by Mixi, has reached an impressive milestone 10 years after its launch. Its revenue has surpassed $10 billion in Japan alone.
Italian publisher Digital Bros, parent company of 505 Games, has announced a round of layoffs. The move will affect around 30% of its global workforce.
Based on the AppMagic database, the App2Top editors have prepared material about the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.
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Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2024 report. Here are the key takeaways, including revenue and download data, as well as the main trends across various genres and regions.