Design Home helps Glu Mobile transform its financial outlook

Glu Mobile announced today that it beat expectations for its second fiscal quarter ended June 30, and it owed much of the results to its acquisition of Crowdstar and its Design Home mobile game. These results show how quickly the company has transformed itself from a maker of tons of short-lived games to a owner of long-lasting apps that engage players for years.

Glu said revenues grew 42 percent from a year ago to $68.7 million, and bookings were up 62 percent to $82.5 million. About $22.5 million of that revenue came from Design Home, a different kind of game where you create interior and exterior home designs.

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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.