The Finnish gaming organization Neogames has prepared a report on how 2020 went for the Finnish video game industry. Its total turnover increased by 9% and reached the level of €2.4 billion. Despite the fact that mobile remained the main platform for local developers, more and more studios began to make games for consoles.

LoopMe and IDC presented a joint study on the prospects of mobile gaming after the end of the pandemic. Companies have concluded that record activity will fall by a quarter in the next couple of years. Mobile market revenue growth is also expected to slow significantly after a record 2020.The study is based on a survey that involved 3,850 smartphone users from the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Brazil and Singapore.

By the end of May App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Chinese match-3 pro zombie Puzzles & Survival earns $23 million a month. It can already be called one of the highest-grossing puzzles on the market. And she is far from the only match-3 dedicated to the post-apocalypse and the living dead.

App Annie together with the publication PocketGamer.biz I have prepared a small report on the mobile strategy market for the first quarter of 2021. Analysts told about the highest-grossing projects, and also noted that the total revenue of all games of the genre reached $ 2.5 billion.Star Trek Fleet Command

Newzoo has published a study of the open world gaming market. The analytical company spoke about the share of “openworlds” on consoles and PCs, the most popular subgenres, as well as about the demographics of such titles. For example, the main audience of Minecraft is people aged 21-35.Minecraft

GameRefinery has published a large study of the American match-3 market as of May 2021. The company talked about the main trends, the highest-grossing projects and the most important mechanics. Also, for the first time in several years, the top 5 highest-grossing games have changed in the genre — Project Makover got into it. In just a few months, it has become one of the biggest hits on the match-3 market.Key data

The Chinese video game market is growing rapidly. According to the forecast of the analytical company Niko Partners, by 2025 the turnover of the mobile and PC segments alone will reach $55.1 billion. This is $12 billion more than in 2020.

The revenues of the American video game market have fallen after 13 months of growth, according to analysts at NPD Group. Iron sales suffered the most, which decreased by 30%. As for the games, FIFA 21 disappeared from the top twenty best-selling titles, but it included NieR: Replicant and Returnal.

Sensor Tower analysts shared a report on the state of the mobile advertising market in the American App Store in 2020. Among other things, they noted that one of the main advertisers on the market is Playrix.

Sensor Tower analysts told how things were going with the monetization of App Store games in 2020. Among the observations is the strengthening of the subscription model and the growth in the number of teams earning exclusively from advertising.

The Liftoff marketing platform has prepared a large report on the state of the advertising market in the casual games segment. The company reviewed how CPI and ROAS indicators have changed over the year for different subgenres, platforms and regions, and also talked about the most popular advertising formats.The Liftoff study is based on data from March 1, 2020 to February 28, 2021.

At the beginning of this year, RPG and strategy confidently overtook other mobile genres in terms of revenue. This is not the first time this has happened. Sensor Tower analysts talked about the situation with these and other game genres in the first quarter of 2021.

GameAnalytics has announced the launch of a new analytical platform GameIntel. The platform provides access to data on key business metrics and allows you to compare games by genre and mechanics.It is integrated into the already existing benchmark service Benchmarks+ and monitors monthly:

Sensor Tower analytical company has shared a large report on the mobile market for the first quarter of 2021. It turned out that during this period, gamers spent $ 22.2 billion, which is 25% more than a year ago. We tell you what else the analysts found.

IIDEA (the Italian Association of Interactive Digital Entertainment) has prepared a report on the state of the Italian gaming industry by the end of 2020. The total market turnover exceeded €2 billion. Despite the growth of the mobile sector, console games bring the main revenue, while the PC remains the most popular platform for development.The IIDEA study is based on an online survey that was conducted from February 24 to April 1, 2021.

Reach3 Insights, together with Lenovo, conducted a study on female gamers. In addition to preferred genres and other behavioral features, it turned out that almost 60% of women specifically hide their gender when playing online. They do this to avoid unnecessary conflicts and harassment from men.The study was based on a survey of 900 women from China, Germany and the USA.

The analytical company Niko Partners calculated that by mid—May 2021, Tencent had managed to conclude over 50 deals with gaming companies. This is already 1.6 times more than in the whole of 2020, and five times more than in 2019. In their new study, analysts told what forces the Chinese colossus to invest so actively in the industry.

MY.GAMES has compiled a portrait of a Russian gamer by the end of 2020. To do this, the company conducted a survey in which about two thousand players aged 15 to 44 years took part. According to the results of the survey, it turned out that the majority of gamers in Russia are men (59%).