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

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The rise of hybridization in mobile games has resulted in game developers experimenting with new gameplay mechanics and features from other genres to drive engagement, something that’s often done via limited-time events. Race events are most commonly active for a few days at a time, during which several races can be initiated.

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How Pride Was Celebrated on Mobile in 2022

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In this blog post, we would like to highlight some examples of how Pride showed on mobile during this year’s Pride month. — Zooba (@ZooBattleArena) June 20, 2022. The company has been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ equality in 2022. pic.twitter.com/5d91viGQQ2.

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

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A larger drop can be identified if we compare Q2 2023 to Q2 2022. As one might have expected, we can see several oldies on our list: Bridge Race , Going Balls , Race Master 3D – Car Racing and Car Games 3D: Car Racing. Comparing total downloads of Q2 2023 to Q1 2023, we see a decrease of about 5%.

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2022 Review & 2023 Predictions for Blockchain Games

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2022 has been a tough roller coaster for blockchain games. I think there is a lot to talk about, so let’s start with looking at what happened during that rollercoaster ride of 2022. The VC investment in blockchain games decreased significantly for the last half of 2022 (source: Jon Jordan ).

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Bucking the Recession in Mobile Gaming

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and Deconstructor of Fun’s latest collaborative report, we dive deep into a comprehensive analysis of the mobile gaming sector and which genres are defying the economic slowdown. Nevertheless, mobile gaming represents a whopping 61% of all games revenue , a number that would be even larger should we account for all the in-app-ad revenue.

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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

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State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well.

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2022 Predictions #3 Sports Games Get Beaten from a Pillar to a Post

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An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. Sports & Racing Games in 2021. In 2021 Sports category on mobile hit the wall. In our Taxonomy found on Sensor Tower, we break down Sports into two genres: Sports and Racing. EA’s Real Racing represents 70% of the revenues in Racing Simulator.

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