App Annie: Older games with a modern twist dominated mobile in December

If I told you Trivial Pursuit and Frogger were the hottest things right now, you’d most likely assume you had fallen through time. But that is exactly what is happening — well, sort of.

Trivia Crack and Crossy Road were among the top downloaded iOS games of December, according to industry-intelligence firm App Annie. The Etermax-developed Trivia Crack shot up the charts last month as it spread through social media and word of mouth. Trivia Crack is a spruced up version of the classic board game Trivial Pursuit where you must answer questions from six different categories in a battle against other human competitors. This old-style game has found a new audience thanks to Etermax integrating connected features like Facebook and notifications. Mobile gaming neared $21 billion in worldwide revenue last year, and upstart games like Trivia Crack played a big part in making that happen.