How Rollic sees the future of ‘TikTokable’ hypercasual games
Rollic has had a billion downloads for its hypercasual games — those that you can play in a minute or less. And seven of...
App Annie: Consumers downloaded 14.3B games in Q3, including 3.6B hypercasual games
Consumers downloaded 14.3 billion games in the third quarter, including 3.6 billion hypercasual games, according to mobile data and analytics provider App Annie. That...
Homa Games raises $50M to beef up its hypercasual mobile game factory
Game publisher and developer Homa Games has raised $50 million to accelerate its “factory” for building hypercasual mobile games. This Paris-based game factory has seen...
Adjust: Mobile gaming accounts for 50% of user acquisition spending
Gaming remains the largest category for user acquisition on mobile devices — accounting for 50% of all user-acquisition ad spending — according to mobile...
Hypercasual game studio FreePlay amasses more than 400M downloads with 3 big hits
The success of hypercasual games is being measured in hundreds of millions or billions of downloads. And that’s why we’re shining a light on...
Angry Birds maker Rovio will buy hypercasual studio Ruby Games
Angry Birds maker Rovio Entertainment has agreed to acquire hypercasual game studio Ruby Games, a Turkish studio that’s the creator of the hit game...
ByteDance’s Ohayoo has published more than 150 games with 500 million downloads
Ohayoo is the new kid on the block in Chinese games. The company is a division of ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, and it...
My.Games invests in Espresso Publishing to boost hypercasual games
My.Games has invested in Espresso Publishing to boost its hypercasual games business. The Amsterdam-based Espresso Publishing creates hypercasual mobile games, which are short but...
Zynga beats Q4 2020 expectations with bookings of $699 million, up 61%
Zynga beat analysts’ expectations today, reporting its highest-ever bookings and revenues in the fourth quarter ended December 31 thanks to the strong performance of...
SayGames announces 2 billion downloads, $10 million hypercasual dev program
Hypercasual mobile game publisher SayGames said its 40 games have been downloaded more than two billion times, including a billion downloads during 2020 alone....