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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Are Driving Player Engagement With Race Events

Game Refinery

This trend is now spinning out into race events – where players compete to see who can reach a designated objective first – resulting in a variety of new race event types emerging. These race events are mostly encountered in casual titles, although they work well for any games that function on level-based progression mechanics.

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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

Comparing total downloads of Q2 2023 to Q1 2023, we see a decrease of about 5%. A larger drop can be identified if we compare Q2 2023 to Q2 2022. The smallest fall of 6% concerns all the other countries combined (similarly to Q1 2023). The market has shrunk from 3.9B installs over the past three months.

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Webinar Recap: How Mobile Game Developers Are Using IP Collaborations to Enhance LiveOps

Game Refinery

One such game mode was Jellyfishing , where two teams raced to capture a designated number of jellyfish. That impressive combination has landed the game a huge amount of critical and commercial acclaim, winning in multiple categories at the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 and selling more than five million units to date.

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EA cutting 5% of workforce

GamesIndustry.biz

In its most recent annual report, the publisher gave its headcount as 13,400 as of the end of March 2023, which would put the job losses around 670 people. Read more

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Even older hypercasual games break into the Top 10 in Q1 2023

PreMortem.Games

When looking at the Top 10 hypercasual games in the first quarter of 2023, AppMagic noticed some interesting trends. Hypercasual Q1 regional split Comparing the total downloads in Q1 2023 with those in Q4 2022, we see a decrease of 5%. billion installs in Q1 2023. Last year, the number of downloads was 4.2

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Hypercasual games market keeps shrinking, still 3.38 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

Also, the trend on the YoY market decrease persists with a 6% drop compared to Q2 2023. a remarkable +100% QoQ; read a full case study on Supercent’s games); Car Race 3D: Car Racing (+22% QoQ); Race Master 3D – Car Racing (+4% QoQ); Going Balls (+0.1% Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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The Mobile Games Industry In the Year 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

1 Organic Discovery Will Be Declared Deceased In 2023, the iOS and Play stores will be officially declared dead - and no funeral will be held. Likelihood of the prediction: 62% #3 Paid UA Becomes a Break-Even Game Advertising is a commodity and in a race to the bottom. Will Netflix launch its first proper hit game in 2023?