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The Google Play Store saw a boost in game revenues after creating better categories

The new game categories in the Google Play Store have helped spur an increase in revenues and downloads by making it easier to find the right type of game, according to a report by mobile market researcher Distimo.

Gaming is still the most popular category across the mobile app stores in both revenue and downloads. On March 18, Google shook things up a little by creating more categories within gaming in order to bring more attention to different kinds of titles. April was the first month to evaluate the effect those changes had in the Google Play Store.

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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.