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Glu Mobile avoids second year of loss thanks to Q4 surge
Mobile dev posts $8.9 million profit as revenue rises across portfolio
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Zynga posts record full-year revenues
Q4 revenues up 63% year-over-year but Words With Friends publisher still posts modest net loss
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DeNA reassessing games strategy as older titles fail to deliver
Mobile games firm posts hefty operating losses in Q3, thanks to games business impairment loss
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DeNA shuts down two of its Japanese mobile titles
Fantasy Earth Genesis and Torikago Scrap March servers to shutter in March
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Nintendo's latest subscription model is attached to Fire Emblem Heroes
$10/month Feh Pass offers free heroes and gameplay augments
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Supercell backs new mobile studio formed by EA DICE veterans
Stockholm-based Wild Games breaks cover to announce $1.1m investment
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Fate/Grand Order just passed $4 billion in revenue
It was the most talked-about game on Twitter and the No.8 free-to-play game by revenue in 2019
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In Europe, Google Play users spent more on mobile gaming in 2019 than App Store users
Sensor Tower: High Google Play spending of $1 billion in Germany helped buck the global trend
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Nintendo mobile games have brought in $1b in lifetime revenue
Sensor Tower: Fire Emblem Heroes accounted for 61% of the total; Dr. Mario World brought in less than 1%
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When do deceptive playable ads help, and when do they hurt?
Dan Greenberg of ironSource says misleading interactive mobile ads were huge in 2019, but likely to be reined in this year
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EA ends support for mobile Tetris, Tetris Blitz
Android games delisted, iOS versions to remain through April
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Mobius Final Fantasy shutting down after five years
Japanese version of the game has already ended; global service to conclude in June 2020
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The RuneScape franchise reached a record peak of 1.1m paid subscribers in 2019
Old School RuneScape on mobile also achieved a new milestone of 8m installs
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NPD: Growth of mobile gamers slows while revenue continues rising
Research firm finds number of US and Canada mobile users playing games was up just 2% last year, but revenues jumped 24% to more than $11.82 billion
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Mobile gaming projected to surpass $100b in spend in 2020
App Annie: Mobile games now bring in more spending than all other game types combined
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Call of Duty Mobile reached 180m downloads in launch quarter
Sensor Tower: It's the most-downloaded mobile game of Q4 2019, and the second-most-downloaded of the year
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2019 was Pokemon Go's best year ever
Niantic's location-based game brought in $894 million last year, even more than its 2016 launch year
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Clash of Clans sees first year-over-year revenue increase since 2015
Sensor Tower: Supercell's leading game brought in $722m in 2019, in part thanks to new "Gold Pass"
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On Christmas, mobile game spending reached $210 million
Sensor Tower: Games accounted for 76% of all mobile in-app spending that day
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Analysts dole out 2020 predictions
Panel of industry watchers call their shots for the upcoming year in games (and assess how their 2019 calls turned out)
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Mobile's fast risers of 2019 could be leaders in 2020
Call of Duty and Mario Kart fell away in November, according to Sensor Tower, while Playrix' Township and Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle were ascendant
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N3twork acquires Funko Pop! Blitz
The game, along with several key developers, picked up from defunct NBCUniversal gaming arm
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Brawl Stars brought in $422m in its first year
Sensor Tower: Supercell's multiplayer arena brought in $94m in South Korea alone
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Apple Arcade now has a cut-price annual payment tier
New subscription option gives a year's access for the price of ten individual months
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Subway Surfers is the top mobile game of the decade by downloads
App Annie: Clash of Clans was No.1 in consumer spend from 2010 to 2019