Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Friday, 8 January 2021

Apple App Store customers spent over $540m on apps on New Year's Day 2021

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"[Apple] App Store customers [spent] $1.8 billion on digital goods and services over the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve,...
Tuesday, 30 July 2019

All of the top 100 players at the Twitch World Cup were male

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"This weekend the best Fortnite players in the world gathered at Flushing Meadows in New York to compete in the game’s first ever World...
Monday, 25 February 2019

450m people played a CNY game on Alipay in February 2019

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"Chinese tech giants reported more user participation in the digital "red envelopes" during the Spring Festival holiday as Ch...
Thursday, 7 February 2019

Marshmello played a concert for 10m people in Fortnite

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"Yesterday (February 2), DJ star Marshmello played an exclusive in-game concert in Fornite at 2pm ET. Fortnite players could watch the ...

Fortnite 'is making more than $300m a month in revenues'

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"To start, consider one of Fortnite’s signature achievements to date: its extraordinary revenue generation. In May 2018 (i.e. when the ...
Wednesday, 16 January 2019

$322m was spent in Apple's App Store on New Year's Day 2019

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"Apple has revealed that App Store customers worldwide set new spending records over the holidays, wrapping up a record-breaking year. ...

Fortnight has an estimated 200m players, and has generated an estimated $3bn in profits

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"[In] September of 2017, Fortnite’s second iteration, “Battle Royale,” hit the web, and went on to spend much of 2018 going viral. The ...
Thursday, 3 January 2019

Video games account for more than half of UK entertainment market

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"The video games sector now accounts for more than half of the UK's entire entertainment market, according to a new report. The in...
Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Pokémon GO has generated an estimated $1.8bn in payments from players in 2 years

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"Released two years ago today, Niantic’s Pokémon GO became an overnight sensation. While the fervor has subsided in the 24 months since...
Friday, 6 April 2018

13m ARKit apps have been downloaded in 6 months

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"iPhone and iPad users worldwide have installed more than 13 million augmented reality apps built expressly using Apple’s ARKit framewo...
Tuesday, 5 December 2017

People have spent $1.3m buying virtual cats in the CryptoKitties game

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"Launched a few days ago, CryptoKitties is essentially like an digital version of Pokemon cards but based on the Ethereum blockchain. A...
Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Pokémon Go generated an estimated $5.8m in revenue in a single day

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"Mobile hit Pokémon Go had its highest revenue in a day since its viral launch last July, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. It’...
Monday, 19 June 2017

The revenue from eSports is expected to rise to over $450m in 2017

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"The revenue from eSports is expected to rise from $130m (£100m) in 2012 to $465m (£365m) this year, according to Newzoo, the eSports d...
Thursday, 15 June 2017

Pokemon GO has sent more than 500 million visitors to McDonalds in Japan

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"Pokémon GO-maker Niantic says it has driven 500 million visitors to sponsored locations like McDonald’s Japan where gamers can score a...
Tuesday, 30 May 2017

66 App Publishers had their first $1m year on Apple's App Store in 2016

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"When it comes to building a successful business, Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence data reveals that more app publishers are achieving...

Over 20% of funds raised on Kickstarter are for games

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"The numbers behind gaming’s growth on the site are striking. In total, fans have pledged over $580 million (£465m) to in excess of 20,...
Monday, 3 April 2017

Mobile game Clash Royale is estimated to have generated more than $1bn in 11 months

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"Supercell announced strong 2016 revenue and earnings today, but it didn’t break out the performance of specific games. Thankfully, mob...
Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Pokémon Go generated an estimated $950 million in revenues in 2016

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"Pokémon Go generated an estimated $950 million in revenues in 2016, according to a report by market researcher App Annie. Niantic Lab...
Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Apple paid more than £20bn to app developers in 2016

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"Apple customers’ App Store spending jumped 40 per cent in 2016 — fuelled by games such as Pokémon Go and Super Mario Run — to provide ...
Thursday, 15 September 2016

Pokemon Go has been downloaded over 500m times

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"Between hordes of people running all over the place in chase of wild Pokémon, various car accidents, and celebrities getting in on the...