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Fallout Shelter app passes Candy Crush Saga on the top-grossing mobile games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

Call it the revenge of the hardcore gamers. Fallout Shelter, a mobile game about life in a post-apocalyptic world, has knocked Candy Crush Saga out of the No. 3 spot it has held for a very long time on the top-grossing mobile games chart.

The rapid rise of Fallout Shelter is testament to the power of hardcore gaming brands and the buzz around the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the biggest U.S. video game trade show. Beating Candy Crush Saga, even for a day, is stunning, since game publisher King reported that the game generated $229.5 million in the first quarter, or $2.55 million a day.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.