Responses when gamers were asked if they will play more after the pandemic is over.
Responses when gamers were asked if they will play more or less after the pandemic is over.
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IDC/LoopMe: 75% of pandemic-driven mobile gaming lift will remain

About 75% of the pandemic-driven increase in mobile games will persist indefinitely, according to a new report by market researcher IDC and digital ad platform LoopMe.

The study analyzes one of the biggest questions about pandemic gaming: whether players who picked up the gaming habit during lockdown will continue playing games once they can go outside more and resume other social activities.

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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.