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In 2016 the mobile games market earned $40.6 billion, the same amount as global box office sales—the first factoid in SuperData's 2016 Mobile Games Report. A proper summary is, "mobile is killing it." Remember, this was the year Pokemon GO released and generated a billion on its own since launch. And big dogs like Nintendo, with Super Mario Run, and [...]
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Free-to-play games show no sign of slowing down according to SuperData's December 2016 report detailing the digital game's market. But don't misinterpret. The F2P market rides on the backs of three Titans: League of Legends, Crossfire, and Dungeon Fighter Online, contributing to the 7% year-over-year rise. In other digital game's news: In the US, this shift toward digital has fundamentally [...]
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We're a bit late to this, but Superdata's April report was published at the end of last month. As usual, the report contained top five lists for the month, but this one also contained an interesting page entitled "Six of the top 10-grossing MMOs are free-to-play games." The page goes over the details of this year's top 10-grossing MMOs. Of [...]
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SuperData's latest report is out. Several predictions are included, but the one that stands out most is the prediction that "Chinese companies will scoop up 1-2 western publishers a month from here on." The prediction comes just over a week after it was announced that Jagex may be acquired by a Chinese mining company called Shandong Hongda. The full quote [...]
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New revenue numbers gathered by SuperData reveal the continued growth in mobile gaming. The combined revenues of the top 15 mobile games totaled $3.75 billion USD in the 12 month period between November 28, 2014 and November 27, 2015. That's a 5.5% growth in revenues compared to the same period last year. SuperData reports these numbers with Black Friday of each year [...]
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