Japanese mobile hit Puzzle & Dragons reaches 10M downloads in North America

A trio of games make the bulk of the money from the lucrative Japanese mobile app market, and one of those is continuing its push into the West.

More than 10 million people have downloaded Puzzle & Dragons in North America, according to developer GungHo Online Entertainment. The studio has steadily added players to its role-playing puzzle battler that makes nearly $1 billion every year in the competitive $36.9 billion mobile-gaming sector. The game first debuted in the United States and Canada in 2012, and it has worked to make an impact outside of its home territory where it is regularly in the top 2 on the highest-grossing charts for both iOS and Android.