While Playerunknown's Battlegrounds on the PC has been losing players over the last 6 months, PUBG Mobile has been a huge success. Tencent Games and PUBG Corp announced today that PUBG Mobile hit a new milestone - 100 million downloads and 14 million daily active users. Those numbers are worldwide excluding China, South Korea, and Japan, which makes the figures [...]
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Science makes the world a better place. In the hands of a mad goblin scientist like Dr. Boom, however, it's more likely to blow up the entire planet. The Boomsday Project Expansion is now live in Hearthstone bringing with it new mechanics, new spells, and of course, a ton of new cards. Dr.Boom has been elected Mad scientist of the [...]
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The mobile strategy game Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire earned a whopping $380 million so far since its release 13 months ago, significantly out earning every single Square Enix MMO combined. Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy XI, and Dragon Quest X earn about $280 million a year combined according to Square Enix's publicly disclosed earnings reports. A New Empire [...]
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Lineage 2: Revolution, the mobile MMORPG based on the Lineage franchise, earned over $1.3 billion in global spending since its Dec 2016 launch according to mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower. Remarkably, despite heavy advertising, the game only earned a bit under 3% of its global revenues from the U.S. (about $30 million). 57% came from South Korea and 26% came [...]
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It's been 18 months since Fire Emblem Heroes launched on mobile devices and the numbers are in - the game has made $400m in worldwide revenue, making it by far the most successful game in the franchise (on a revenue basis). The next best selling game in the franchise is Fire Emblem: Awakening on the Nintendo 3DS which sold 2.1m [...]
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Here's another reminder that mobile games are big business - In IGG's annual report published earlier this year they revealed that Lords Mobile is now making about $50 million per month in revenue worldwide (and still growing). That's a staggering sum of money for a single mobile game. Especially one that's so similar in core gameplay to dozens of other [...]
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Sega announced a brand new game in the Phantasy Star universe today titled Idola: Phantasy Star Saga and it's for mobile devices. With the announcement comes a gameplay trailer which shows turn based combat similar to other Gacha hero collectors like Fate/Grand Order. 『イドラ ファンタシースターサーガ』ティザームービーWatch this video on YouTube Given Phantasy Star's JRPG roots, Idola will likely be heavily story [...]
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The mobile version of MapleStory, titled MapleStory M, officially launched today in 140 countries across the globe. While the game was playable for some time in the West, it was only available as a soft launch until now. To celebrate the occasion, players who log in over the next 14 days get a special in game item every day until [...]
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According to a new report by mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower Fate/Grand Order generated over $2 billion in lifetime sales worldwide since it launched in August 2015. The game has been Sony's biggest hit to date on mobile and is one of the world's highest grossing games. In the last 3 months alone Fate/Grand Order brought in $290 million across [...]
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Despite enormous success in its home market of China, Arena of Valor hasn't made the same inroads in the Western market. It isn't exactly a disaster though as the game has reached 1 million downloads on both iOS and Android combined since launching into beta in December 2017 according to mobile game analytics firm Sensor Tower. Revenue in Western markets [...]
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