The analytics company Newzoo has finalized the results for the global video game market in 2023. They calculated that the market earned $183.9 billion last year. This is slightly below the lowered November forecast of $184 billion, while initially, analysts had predicted revenue of $187.7 billion.
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Following the publication of Sony’s FY23 report, Niko Partners director of research and insights Daniel Ahmad has shared more data about the company’s gaming business and the sales of PlayStation 5 consoles.
Round table — what is the visual novel market?
· 9 days agoApp2Top brought together the heads of Hit'n'run Digital Studio, KPD, FlyinDogs and SERIES to talk about the situation in the visual novel market. We discussed the cost of development, the competitiveness of the market and the myths associated with the niche.
Based on the AppMagic database, the editors of App2Top have prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.
The GEM Capital team has expanded, according to VentureBeat. The advisory board of the investment group includes the CEOs of three companies at once: Mundfish, Gameram and AppMagic.
Eight years after its release, Pokémon GO remains the highest-grossing mobile AR game in the world. The AppMagic analytical service estimated that the total user spending in it exceeds $ 8 billion* with 656.6 million downloads.
In March, Sensor Tower, an analytical company, announced the purchase of a rival company data.ai . Joost van Dreunen, founder and CEO of the now-closed SuperData, shared his opinion on the deal in his newsletter. He is pessimistic.
Sensor Tower has published a study of the mobile games market. Among the key trends are falling downloads and cash registers.
The document is called the Mobile Ad Creative Index. Its focus is on the average cost of advertising for various types of creatives. One of the verticals considered by the authors of the work is mobile games.
With the support of the AppMagic service, the App2Top editorial board has prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.
The analytical company Newzoo has published a large-scale study on the state of the PC and console games market at the beginning of 2024. We share the key points from it.
The analytical company Newzoo studied the success of the cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 in February. We share the main conclusions from the report.
At the beginning of the week, Sensor Tower announced the purchase of an analytical company data.ai . It became known that after the deal data.ai She cut about 200 employees.
The publisher of Playstack and the developer of LocalThunk, in an interview with gaming expert Simon Carless, discussed the success of the already hit poker "bagel" Balatro. We chose the main thing from the conversation.
Sensor Tower buys data.ai (former App Annie)
· 2 months agoConsolidation in the mobile analytics market. Sensor Tower service has announced the acquisition of its key competitor — data.ai .
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella has shared his thoughts on the current state of the video game market. He expects 2024 to be a tough year with a high level of uncertainty around sales, hardware, and content.
Hicham Nouhou, head of Tencent's publishing division in Russia and the CIS, estimated the Russian gaming market at this amount. He announced his data at a meeting of the working group of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on esports.
At the end of February, the AppMagic analytical service prepared a study of the casual games market for mobile devices. We tell you about the most important of them.
UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has shared its annual report on the country’s video game market. Here are the key findings about last year’s best-selling titles and consoles, as well as total consumer spend by segments.
Based on the data of the AppMagic analytical platform, the App2Top editorial board has prepared material on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.
Gaming expert Simon Carless revealed in a recent newsletter the gross revenue of a number of notable new products in 2024 on Steam. He used data from the analytical service GameDiscoverCo.
Astrum Entertainment conducted a study on female gamers and gender stereotypes in games. To do this, she interviewed more than 9 thousand people. Of these, 7.8 thousand are men, and 1.2 thousand are women.
Dmitry Filatov, CEO of the Narwhal gaming accelerator, published some statistics on gaming companies on his DogDog telegram channel. He tried to calculate how many video game-related organizations there are in the world right now: publishers, game development studios, outsourcing studios, platforms, game investors and others. He also looked at which countries their headquarters are located in.
In the second half of 2023, IT specialists in Russia earned less than at the beginning of the year. According to Habr Career estimates, the median salary fell the most among game developers — by 28% to 128 thousand rubles.
The analytical company Newzoo has published a forecast for the global gaming market for 2024. She expects the market to earn $189.3 billion next year, 2.8% more than in 2023.
The growth rate of revenue from subscriptions has slowed down. This was stated by Mat Piscatella, executive director and analyst at Circana (formerly NPD).
Last year, the number of downloads of games in the Russian Google Play and App Store increased by 4% to almost 3 billion. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to the data of the analytical platform data.ai .
Analytical service data.ai I published a report on the state of the mobile app market last year. Here are the main facts from his chapter on mobile gaming.
The year 2023 was remembered by the gaming industry for massive cuts. The wave of layoffs affected both indie studios and corporations: Embracer Group, CD PROJEKT, Ubisoft, Telltale Games, Blackbird Interactive, Ascendant Studios and many other video game-related companies announced layoffs. According to the portal videogamelayoffs.com Since January, 10,466 specialists have lost their jobs.
We continue to summarize the results of 2023 with the gaming (or related to the gaming sector) teams. Next up is an interview with Polina Zalyaeva, business development manager at the Artvostok outsourcing studio.
This year’s last episode of Games and Names, a games industry podcast launched by AppMagic in partnership with WN Media Group, wraps up 2023 for the mobile games market and the industry in general. Here is a recap of the main trends and the biggest challenges that developers and publishers have faced over the past 12 months.
Our colleagues from the British edition of GamesIndustry have collected in a single infographic the main figures of the gaming industry for the year 2023 coming to the end. We share.
Analytics firm Newzoo has put together some data on the state global games market in 2023 and shared its forecast for the future. The company also listed this year’s best-performing titles in terms of revenue and active players.
More sales data on PlayStation’s first-party games has emerged as a result of a ransomware attack suffered by Insomniac Games. It also includes information about titles like Bloodborne and Days Gone, figures for which Sony hasn’t updated in years.
In a world where more than 1,000 games are released every month, even quality titles run the risk of not recouping their development costs. Here are the lessons indie studio Pixelsplit learned from the launch of its theme park sim Indoorlands.
SuperScale has published a report on Good Games Don't Die, which was commissioned by Atomik Research. As part of the survey, analysts spoke with 504 mobile game developers from the UK and the USA.
The Roblox platform has reached a new milestone. According to estimates by the analytical service AppMagic, in November, total user spending in the mobile version of Roblox exceeded $7 billion. Important: this is the amount before the company pays the fees and taxes.
Newzoo has updated its 2023 forecast for the global games market, also analyzing the top 10 game publishers by revenue. Tencent, Sony, and Apple remain the leaders, but big shifts are expected in the second half of the year due to the completion of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Based on the AppMagic database, the App2Top editorial staff has prepared material on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.
The guest of the new episode of the Games and Names podcast was Thomas Kriebernegg, co-founder of the page optimization service in app stores App Radar.
Many American advertisers abandoned the Unity advertising network after the company introduced a new pricing policy on September 12. According to Sensor Tower analysts, in the week from September 11 to 17, their number on the Unity network decreased by 15%.
Sensor Tower analytical company has released a report on the South Korean mobile games market. It covers the period from January to September 2023.
Valve is in no hurry to officially disclose the sales of the Steam Deck, so analysts share data for it. Simon Carless tried to find out how many people bought this portable PC.
The American Entertainment Software Association decided to find out what motivates people to play video games. To do this, she, in collaboration with gaming associations from other regions, interviewed 12.8 thousand gamers from 12 countries.
AppMagic: Gamers spent more than $7 billion in Scopely games
· 7 months agoTotal user spending in Scopely mobile games has exceeded $7.6 billion, according to AppMagic analysts.
The analytical company Newzoo studied the success of Remnant II in August. We have selected the main thing from the report.
Based on the data of the AppMagic analytical service, the editors of App2Top have prepared material about the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.
Study: 74% of Russian gamers like to read books
· 7 months agoThe All-Russian Reading Day was held on October 9. On this occasion, Astrum Entertainment asked more than 2,300 gamers what they read and games based on which books they would like to see.
In the third quarter of 2023, venture capital companies invested $ 700.3 million in games, Bloomberg reports, citing PitchBook data. This is the lowest figure since the second quarter of 2020.
Analytical company data.ai She shared preliminary figures on the mobile games market for the third quarter of 2023, which will end on September 30. We have selected the main thing from the report.
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There is little talk about games in the Telegram messenger. We decided to fix the situation by talking with Daria Novikova, product director at PlayDeck startup. The latter launched a gaming marketplace for Telegram. In a conversation with Daria, we touched on topics such as user engagement, earnings from leading projects, monetization and, of course, PlayDeck itself.