Etermax's Trivia Cars got 1.5 million downloads in a month.

Etermax CEO: How Trivia Crack creator published 8 games during the pandemic

This year will go down as one of the toughest in history, but Argentina-based mobile game publisher Etermax performed well. During the pandemic, the publisher of the hit mobile game Trivia Crack published eight titles.

As people sought solace from games while social distancing, mobile gaming is expected to grow overall by 25% to $112 billion, according to market researcher App Annie.

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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.