Sitemap - 2021 - GameDev Reports

BuzzGuru: Plarium has spent $8.66M on RAID: Shadow Legends YouTube campaigns last half a year

Weekly Reports Recap: December 20 - December 24

StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: Twitch viewership increased by 45% in 2021

Newzoo: 2021 in Numbers

GfK Entertainment: Activision and EA are UK leaders in sales during the Christmas

GamesIndustry.biz: 2021 in numbers (infographics)

Newzoo & Pangle: RPG Report - top genre by revenue

Weekly Reports Recap: December 13 - December 17

Blockchain Game Association: NFT Games earned $2.32B in Q3 2021

Sensor Tower: 8 Mobile Games hit the $1B mark in 2021

SocialPeta: Top Advertisers (Creatives) of November

Australian Interactive Games & Entertainment Association: The Gaming Industry revenue increased twice in 5 years

NPD: The US Gaming Market Revenue in November decreased

Sensor Tower: Top Games by Downloads in November 2021

Weekly Reports Recap: December 6 - December 10

Sensor Tower: Pokemon Unite was downloaded 50M times

Newzoo: PC Hardware Market Overview

AppMagic: Squid Games trend is over

App Annie: Mobile Apps will earn $135B in 2021

Sensor Tower: Top Grossing Games of November 2021

Niko Partners: Asian gamers will bring $41B of revenue in 2025

Sensor Tower: Mobile Apps Spendings increased by 20% in 2021

Microsoft: 20% of Xbox Game Cloud subscribers are using touch controls

Weekly Reports Recap: November 29 - December 3

Newzoo: Japanese gamers behavior overview

App Magic: Mobile Top Grossing & Top Downloaded titles of November

Sensor Tower: Mobile Downloads in Q3 2021 Report

Deloitte: The Console Market is in the best shape in 50 years

Vungle & Liftoff: Optimal Video Length & End Cards for Mobile Games Marketing

GWI: Big Report about gamers

Steam is breaking records

Weekly Reports Recap: November 22 - November 26

Sensor Tower: PUBG: New State reached $2.6M of revenue first week

App Annie: EMEA-based Match-3 developers earned almost a billion $ in Q3 2021

Sensor Tower: PUBG Mobile daily revenue in 2021 is $8.1M

Newzoo & Carry1st: The number of Sub-Saharian Africa users increased by 2.4x times in 6 years

App Annie: Mobile Gaming Market of Australia & New Zealand in 2021

DFC Intelligence: Users will spend $135B on gaming hardware by 2026

App Annie: Players downloaded games 14.3B times in Q3 2021

Niko Partners: Chinese gaming market will earn less in 2021 than expected

Newzoo: 20% of the Xbox audience played Call of Duty: Warzone & Fortnite last month

Global Sales Data: PlayStation 5 owners prefer buying boxed games

Google & Newzoo: Gaming industry in 2021 and beyond

Weekly Reports Recap: November 15 - November 19

Sensor Tower: South Korean gamers have spent almost $1.5B on games in Q3 2021

App Annie: Sports Sims has been downloaded 23M times in Q3 2021 in the US

Tenjin & Espresso Publishing: Hyper-casual market in Q3 2021

PUBG: New State surpassed 20M downloads in 5 days

Sensor Tower: The Strategy genre in the US grew by a quarter last 12 months

DFC Intelligence: Cloud Gaming Market will reach $13.5B by 2026

StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: Twitch grew in viewership by 19% YoY in October

Sensor Tower: Top Downloaded Mobile Games of October 2021

Weekly Reports Recap: November 8 - November 12

MY.GAMES: Russian Gaming Market will grow in 2021 only by 1% - in roubles

Newzoo: Only 53% of Indian players have an Android device with 4GB RAM

Sensor Tower: Top Grossing Mobile Games of October

App Annie: Indian Mobile Market Report

Moloco: Post-IDFA Mobile Game Advertising Costs

Dataspelsbranschen: Swedish Gaming Companies earned $3.8B in 2020

Sensor Tower: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp reached $250M since the release

GlobalData: The VR market will reach $51B valuation in 2030

Nintendo Switch will receive the record amount of games this year

App Annie: Garena Free Fire became the most popular Battle Royale game of the first half of 2021

Weekly Reports Recap: November 1 - November 5

Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes earned $1.4B since the release

Sensor Tower: Harry Potter: Magic Awakened earned $228M in less than 2 months

Genshin Impact might be the most successful game ever in the first year after launch

Sensor Tower: ROBLOX servers outage led users to Twitch, Among Us, and Minecraft

AppMagic: Top Mobile Games in October by Revenue and Downloads

App Annie: League of Legends: Wild Rift Earned $150M in first 370 days

State of Survival collaboration with The Walking Dead brought 20M new users

Weekly Reports Recap: October 25 - October 29

Newzoo: American Gamer Portrait

GameRefinery & Liftoff: Social Casino Market in 2021

Sensor Tower: European Consumers have paid more in Mobile Apps & Games in Q3 2021

Naavik & Wooga: There are too few LGBTQ+ characters in mobile casual puzzles

Weekly Reports Recap: October 18 - October 22

StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: The amount of watched hours in Twitch increased by 20% to the previous year

NPD: Americans have spent on Games $4.4B in September

Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games by Downloads in September 2021

Newzoo: CoD, Battlefield and Halo players Research

NPD: The Gaming Market in the US lost half of the users gained during the pandemic

Weekly Reports Recap: October 4 - October 8

The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land earned $151M in 6 years

Sensor Tower: Top Grossing Mobile Games in September 2021

Interpet and Consumer Technology Association: Esports audience will reach 519M in 2024

Tapjoy: Millennials playing on Mobile more than on Consoles & PC

GameRefinery: Strategic Genre overview on October 2021 in the US

AppMagic: Top Mobile Games of September 2021 by Revenue and Downloads

Sensor Tower: Mobile Apps Revenue in Q3 2021 amounted to near $34 Billion

Weekly Reports Recap: September 27 - October 1

Sensor Tower: Mobile MOBA Landscape in 2021

Sensor Tower: Genshin Impact earned $2B on Mobile during the first year

Adjust: Games are responsible for 50% of all UA spendings

Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Publishers in Various Genres from 1 January to 31 August 2021

App Annie: Candy Crush Jelly Saga reached $500M Revenue

App Magic: Pokemon UNITE earned $1.7M in 5 days after release

AppMagic: Top-10 Games in Argentina by Downloads and Revenue in H1 2021

App Annie: LATAM Mobile Market Report

Sensor Tower: Apps User Engagement Report

Weekly Reports Recap: September 20 - September 24

App Annie: Spent on Mobile Games in Q3 2021 will overcome pandemic-2020 level and reach $22B

Newzoo: Mobile Gaming Market will reach $116,4B in 2024

Omdia: Ad Revenue is growing much faster than in-app Purchases

Sensor Tower: Sports & Racing games Report

Sensor Tower: Casual Puzzle genre Overview in Last 18 Months

Sonic Dash is the most popular Sonic game on Mobile

Weekly Reports Recap: September 13 - September 17

Naavik & BITKRAFT: In reality, the Gaming Market valuation is $336B, not $176B

AppsFlyer: Mobile Landscape in Nordics

AppMagic: Top-10 Turkish publishers by Revenue and Downloads in H1 2021

Sensor Tower: Casino Games earned $4.8B in the US during the past year

NPD: The US citizens spent $4.4B on gaming products in August 2021

Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games by Downloads in August 2021

Omdia: Cloud Gaming market will reach $4B in 2021

Niko Partners: Total Addressable Market of Cloud Gaming in China will reach 150M by the end of the year

Sensor Tower: Update 2.1 for Genshin Impact boosted revenue by 5x times

Weekly Reports Recap: September 6 - September 10

StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: Twitch views increased by 27% in August

Adjust: Mobile APAC Market 2021 Overview

Honor of Kings became the first mobile game to reach $10B in lifetime revenue

GameAnalytics: iOS 14.5+ Opt-in for Games is 43%

Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games by Revenue in August 2021

AppMagic: Top Mobile Games by Revenue and Downloads in August 2021

Weekly Reports Recap: August 30 - September 3

Videogames collected $13M on Kickstarter in H1 2021

Newzoo: About Finnish Gamers & Gaming Market

Sensor Tower: Among Us led Imposter-themed games to 2,554% growth in H1 2021

App Annie: Asphalt 9: Legends surpassed the $100M revenue plank

Weekly Reports Recap: August 23 - August 27

SocialPeta: Mobile Marketing Situation in H1 2021

Newzoo: Global Cloud Gaming Report 2021 - briefly

ISFE: European Gaming market earned €23.3 billion in 2020

App Annie: Hypercasual downloads increased by 15% in Q2 2021

Sensor Tower: Gardenscapes Revenue passed $3 billion

App Annie & AppsFlyer: State of App Marketing in Latin America 2021

Newzoo & Pangle: Puzzle Games Report

Clash Royale earned record revenue in the last 2 years in June

Sensor Tower: Tabletop games Revenue in US increased by 40% last year

Sensor Tower: State of Mobile Game Advertising 2021 Report

Weekly Reports Recap: August 16 - August 20

Steam: Participation in Demo Festivals might increase wishlists by 421%

Sensor Tower: US users are using 46 apps per month on average

Sensor Tower: Mobile Market Forecast 2021-2025

Newzoo: How Gamers consume food and drinks while playing

Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games in South Korea by Revenue and Downloads in Q2 2021

Sensor Tower: Dragon Ball Z: Dokkah Battle passed the $3 billion milestone

GSD: PlayStation, Xbox, Mario, and FIFA are the main brands at the EMEAA Market in H1 2021

AppMagic: Top Mobile Games Downloads and Revenue in July 2021

Stream Elements & Rainmaker.gg: Twitch views in July were up by 23%

Newzoo: How different generations interact with games

Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games by Downloads in July 2021

The NPD Group: US users have spent $4.6B on games in July 2021

Sensor Tower: Top Grossing Mobile Games Worldwide in July 2021

App Annie: 2021 Mobile Gaming Tear Down - report

Weekly Reports Recap: July 26 - July 30

Sensor Tower: Mobile titles generated more than $100M for Riot Games

Dr. Mario World is the most unsuccessful game from Nintendo on mobile devices

GameRefinery: Mobile Market snapshot in Q2 2021

23 out of 50 top Steam titles are made with Unity

Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games in Japan by Revenue and Downloads in Q2 2021

IGDA: 43% of Game Developers experienced better work-life balance during the pandemic

Newzoo: Saudi Arabia's Mobile Gaming market 2021 report

Weekly Reports Recap: July 19 - July 23

Niko Partners: Asia is 54% of the world Esports market

Sensor Tower: Card Battler in 2021 Report

Sensor Tower: US users doubled their spending on the Action games in H1 2021

CTA: More than a half of US households own a game console

App Annie: Daily apps spent time increased by 45% during the pandemic

LocalizeDirect: Top localization languages in 2020-2021

Weekly Reports Recap: July 12 - July 16

The NPD Group: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart made it to the top in June 2021

Sensor Tower: Mobile Market in Q2 2021

Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games by Downloads in June 2021

AppsFlyer: African Mobile Market Report

Newzoo: Adventure games on consoles has the best daily average playtime

App Annie: Russian Mobile Gaming Market in 2020 and H1 2021

GameRefinery: Match-3 trends in 2021

Sensor Tower: Top Grossing Mobile Games in June 2021

PwC: The Gaming Industry will continue to grow in 2021-2025

StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: Twitch settled a new quarter record in Q2 2021

Weekly Reports Recap: July 5 - July 9

Niko Partners: Do not expect the Chinese Console Market to become massive

Newzoo: LATAM market in 2021 is valued at $3.5 billion

AppMagic: Top Mobile Games by Revenue and Downloads in June 2021

Sensor Tower: Players spent $5B in 5 years in Pokemon Go

GameRefinery: MMORPG on iOS in China earned $468.76 million in Q1 2021

Weekly Reports Recap: June 28 - July 2

Newzoo: 3 Billion gamers will be on the planet by the end of 2021

App Annie: Gaming apps were earning $1.7 billion per week on average in Q2 2021

Sensor Tower: Users mobile spendings reached $64.9 billion in H1 2021

Weekly Reports Recap: June 21 - June 25

Newzoo & arm: High-fidelity Mobile Games Report

VG Insights: COVID-19 effect on Steam releases in 2020

IGEA: Australian gaming industry won from the coronavirus

KPMG: Indian Gaming Industry will grow by 113% by 2025

GameAnalytics: Hypercasual Games metrics snapshot

Sensor Tower: Mobile Sports games in the US received $648.8 million in revenue in a year

Weekly Reports Recap: June 14 - June 18

33% of games from E3 2021 and Summer Game Fest are non-violent

StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: Twitch had 2.2 billion hours watched in May

Tapjoy: Gen Z Mobile Gamers Report

Sensor Tower: Top 100 US Mobile games are responsible for 64% of mobile gaming sector revenue

App Annie: Slots are accountable for 6% of mobile gaming market revenue

Niko Partners: The console market in China will reach $2.46 billion by 2025

App Annie & Wargaming: Russian Mobile Gaming Market in 2020 and Q1 2021

GameDiscoverCo: E3 conferences conversion into Steam wishlists

AppsFlyer: iOS 14.5 & ATT in gaming (June 15)

App Annie: Mobile version of Among Us reached $86 million revenue in 3 years

App Annie & IDC: 2021 Gaming trends

NPD Group: US spending on games in May was $4.45 billion

Weekly Reports Recap: June 7 - June 11

Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games by Downloads in May 2021

Newzoo: 38% of Apex Legends PC players also playing CS: GO and Valorant

GlobalData: Mobile Gaming Market will reach $272 billion in 2030

Adjust: Hypercasual installs increased by 76% in Q1 2021

SocialPeta: The number of mobile gaming advertisers in some regions is decreasing

Finnish Game Industry 2020 Report

Ofcom: 62% of adults in the UK have played games in 2020

Tenjin: Publishers started to buy more Android traffic after iOS 14.5 release

Sensor Tower: Top Grossing Mobile Games in May 2021

AppsFlyer: iOS 14 & ATT in gaming (June 8)

IDC & LoopMe: 75% of pandemic-driven gamers will continue playing games

GameRefinery: Collection System in Games

AppMagic: Top games by Downloads and Revenue in May 2021

Weekly Reports Recap: May 31 - June 6

Newzoo: 51% of users in North America and Western Europe started playing more after COVID-19

myTracker: iOS 14.5+ & IDFA benchmark on May 31

App Annie: City battle Strategy Games were accounted for $2.5 billion in Q1 2021

Weekly Reports Recap - May 24 - May 30

Newzoo: only 33% of Minecraft players are younger than 20

Ultimate Team mode was responsible for 29% of EA revenue in 2020

NPD Group: The US gaming market has ended its 13-month growth in April

Niko Partners: China's gaming industry is expected to reach $55B by 2025

GameRefinery: Match 3 genre is accountable for 16% of all US iOS games revenue

Adjust: Mobile app trends 2021 - gaming insights

Sensor Tower: State of Mobile Gaming 2021 - key insights

Liftoff: Casual games CPI grew by 45.2% in a year

Cafe Bazaar has 30M MAU and 30M gamers

IIDEA: Italian gaming market in 2020

Snapchat games reached 200M audience

Google & Savanta: Gamers behavior in 2020

Apple: 62% of App Store revenue is generated by games

SensorTower: Top Mobile Games Worldwide by Downloads (April 2021)

Summoners War: Lost Centuria generated $4,4 mln. in the first 10 days

24,2% of users are paying in Fortnite

Sensor Tower: The Intellectual Property in the Mobile Games Market Report

AppMagic: Top April 2021 Mobile games by downloads and revenue

Breakout of Earnings by Platforms for largest game companies

Case Study: AppQuantum generated $7 mln. in 3 months with Redcell's Games Gold & Goblins

Newzoo: Diversity and Inclusion in Gaming - report

Sensor Tower: Top Grossing games worldwide in April 2021

Flurry: 15% of iOS users opt-in to app tracking worldwide

Sensor Tower: Twitch Mobile version received 22m of downloads in Q1 2021

Latest game industry trends and numbers