In September 2023, Supercell and the chess platform Chess.com we launched a collaboration in the games Clash of Clans and Clash Royale. Although the collaboration was unsuccessful for Clash of Clans, it turned out to be extremely successful for Clash Royale.

Supercell has announced that the mobile hits Clash of Clans and Clash Royale officially have PC versions. However, only owners of Windows computers can play them and only through the desktop version of the Google Play Games service.

Supercell, which previously supported Ukraine, announced its withdrawal from the Russian and Belarusian markets. The company has already removed titles from stores in these countries.Supercell made such a statement today on its social networks and on the official Braw Stars website.

Supercell has shared its financial results for 2021. During this period, the Finnish studio earned over $ 2 billion and reported an increase in profits. The company also published data on the total revenue of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale.Revenue reached €1.89 billion ($2.24 billion) — an increase of 46.5% compared to the results for 2020.

Sensor Tower analysts talked about the new successes of Clash Royale. In June, the Supercell game earned $42.5 million in the App Store and Google Play. The last time this happened was in 2019 after the introduction of the battle pass strategy.

This year, the Clash Royale League tournament has undergone significant changes, abandoning team competitions. This forced the esports organization Team Liquid to disband its membership in the game and switch attention to content creation.Team Liquid told about this on its official website.

Supercell remains a profitable company, but its EBITDA fell by 21% last year. Ilkka Paananen, CEO of the company, acknowledged the problem of supporting games as services, spoke about the results of the launch of Brawl Stars in China and possible corporate changes.Paananen’s comments appeared in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

In July, Supercell updated Clash Royale. The game has a new monetization tool — battle pass. Thanks to him, the weekly revenue of the game jumped from $ 4.8 million to $ 13.2 million.

But its management is also happy with the current results.

Founder of the game design blog Deconstructor of Fun Michail Katkoff reflects on why Supercell fails to make a genre-forming project out of Brawl Stars and whether the game will die before it reaches the world release. The article examines in detail what happened to the game in four big updates and where the developers made mistakes.

Apptopia has published an interesting infographic: in how many days mobile games overcame the bar of 100 million downloads on iOS. Super Mario Run achieved this the fastest.

Sensor Tower has compiled lists of the most downloaded and profitable games in the App Store and Google Play for the second quarter of 2018. PUBG Mobile has lost the lead in downloads to the hyper-casual arcade Helix Jump.

Clash of Clans, as well as Clash Royale and Marvel Contest of Champions are used in a major money laundering scam. Such a study was published by the German company Kromtech Security, specializing in cybersecurity.

The Clash Royale strategy, one of the hits of the Finnish Supercell, has already brought its creators $ 2 billion, of which $40 million in the last month.

In the first three months since the launch on iOS, fans of the main hit Epic Games spent $ 100 million in the game, analysts from Sensor Tower estimated. Only Clash Royale and Pokémon GO earned faster on iOS.

Among the numerous imitators of Clash Royale, the golf simulator Golf Clash has achieved the greatest success. The game is among the top twenty highest-grossing mobile games in the United States and earns more than $ 10 million per month. Why she succeeded,” Adam Telfer, co—founder of Chatterbox Games, told GDC.

Why the monetization of Brawl Stars is much inferior to that in Clash Royale, he told on the blog pages mobilefreetoplay.com The former product is Wooga lead Adam Telfer.

Mobile games with the highest number of downloads had a better retention rate than the highest-grossing titles.

According to statistics, the expenses of mobile gamers in 2016 increased by $7 and reached $77.60.