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

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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

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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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A race to the bottom on creator royalties?

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We look into the interesting world of creator royalties and whether games, especially those in the blockchain space, will join the race to the bottom. So, I think it’s safe to assume that games will not join this race to the bottom and will try to stay afloat through free mints and the creator royalties accrued from the secondary market.

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

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Sports & Racing Games in 2021. In our Taxonomy found on Sensor Tower, we break down Sports into two genres: Sports and Racing. The racing genre is further broken down into Racing Simulators, Kart Racing, Arcade Racing, and Drag Racing. Kart Racing declined due to some reasons.

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2021 Predictions #5 Sports Games Race into a Billion Dollar Club

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Despite being the smallest category by revenue share on mobile, 2020 was a very good year for Sports & Racing as it breached the billion-dollar mark , with combined revenue of $1.2B Sports saw YoY growth of +29% ($880M) , while Racing registered +23% YoY ($331M). The sports category is divided into two genres: Sports and Racing.

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How Pride Was Celebrated on Mobile in 2022

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— 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. Last year, the company distributed an exclusive rainbow-colored car to players in CSR2 Racing to commemorate the event. pic.twitter.com/5d91viGQQ2.

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