Social casino games Q2 2014
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Global growth for social casino games slows to 8.6% in Q2 as big companies dominate

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Social casino games grew 8.6 percent in the second quarter to $663.7 million, according to a report by Eilers Research. That growth isn’t as fast as it once was, but it shows that the market is becoming mature and established.

Social casino games have become a $2.7 billion worldwide industry in a short few years thanks to rapid growth on Facebook and mobile. This has prompted a lot of merger-and-acquisition deals as well as the creation of dozens of startups. But as you can see from the chart, big companies are dominating the market.

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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.