NPD: Growth of mobile gamers slows while revenue continues rising
Research firm finds number of US and Canada mobile users playing games was up just 2% last year, but revenues jumped 24% to more than $11.82 billion
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HTC Vive Pro gets $200 price cut
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Call of Duty Mobile reached 180m downloads in launch quarter
Sensor Tower: It's the most-downloaded mobile game of Q4 2019, and the second-most-downloaded of the year
2019 was Pokemon Go's best year ever
Niantic's location-based game brought in $894 million last year, even more than its 2016 launch year
Clash of Clans sees first year-over-year revenue increase since 2015
Sensor Tower: Supercell's leading game brought in $722m in 2019, in part thanks to new "Gold Pass"
On Christmas, mobile game spending reached $210 million
Sensor Tower: Games accounted for 76% of all mobile in-app spending that day
Analysts dole out 2020 predictions
Panel of industry watchers call their shots for the upcoming year in games (and assess how their 2019 calls turned out)
Mobile's fast risers of 2019 could be leaders in 2020
Call of Duty and Mario Kart fell away in November, according to Sensor Tower, while Playrix' Township and Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle were ascendant
N3twork acquires Funko Pop! Blitz
The game, along with several key developers, picked up from defunct NBCUniversal gaming arm
Brawl Stars brought in $422m in its first year
Sensor Tower: Supercell's multiplayer arena brought in $94m in South Korea alone
Apple Arcade now has a cut-price annual payment tier
New subscription option gives a year's access for the price of ten individual months
Subway Surfers is the top mobile game of the decade by downloads
App Annie: Clash of Clans was No.1 in consumer spend from 2010 to 2019
Animoca Brands acquires Power Rangers developer nWay
Studio behind mobile fighting game Legacy Wars purchased for $7.69 million
A (Magic) leap backwards | Opinion
The woes experienced by the over-hyped AR firm were easily predictable -- but the backlash will cause headaches for the sector at large
PUBG Mobile earned at least $1.3 billion in 2019
Sensor Tower points to Chinese rebrand as catalyst for growth, but the figure excludes third-party Android stores
High Fidelity lays off half of staff, pulls plug on open-source VR platform
Company cuts headcount for second time this year, says it is refocusing on new project early in development
Mobile games made 15 times more revenue than entertainment apps in a single year
Liftoff report on app industry shows games leading the way in downloads, in-app revenue and number of new releases
Gameloft partners with Blacknut on mobile cloud gaming service
New service will be available on smartphones, smart TVs, set-top boxes and PC
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