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Worldwide spending on mobile game apps tripled in 2013 to $16B

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Digital games was easily the biggest content category for digital content spending in 2013, according to the annual worldwide data collected by market researchers AppAnnie and IHS.

Mobile game apps accounted for $16 billion in spending, up 2.9 times from a year before; and spending on digital gaming was $34 billion, not counting game apps.

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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.