🚨📢 Block blast for SALE? Sensor Tower drops Bombshell Report, 4X growth

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two and a [music] half gamers exclusive breaking news you [music] literally breaking. Hello and welcome to your weekly breaking news. I'm your host, Matthew Lancherich, with the latest scoops from the past week. Grab your headphones and let's dive in. So, we will kick it off with fresh game [music] launches. We have a bit of everything. Last asylum plague, a survivor builder with Forex strategy elements. We will definitely talk about this one very soon. Then we have W solitary worlds merges word puzzles with solitary. thing about scrabble meets clone deck. [music] Then there we have

coin stack sort puzzle which which is adding a spin to the coin sorting craze and portal surfers road runners offers a sci-fi take on endless running [music] and obviously some more and more smaller games. Well, now into the big business moves. A rumor had it that by dance was buying Block Blast but the story actually involves Tencent. According to reports, Tencent is in advanced talks to take a minority stake in Hungary Studio, the developer behind Buzzle Heat Block Blast. With the game attracting around 70 million daily players and 300 billion monthly players, you can see why investors are circling. A deal could be announced soon and it would give tens and even more influence in the puzzle genre. Biden meanwhile is busy looking to sell Moonton and back away from the gaming business. In analytic news, Sensor Tavver's state of state of gaming

2026 report landed this week. Highlights include a mobile gaming revenue barely grew last year. Apple's App Store took in [music] about 52.5 billion just edging out Google Play and Steam combined. Yet downloads fell on both major major stores. The one area which is still expanding I'm pretty sure you can guess strategy game particularly the forex sub genre which saw games in downloads revenue and time spent. Well hello kingshot reports also noted that new releases are exploding. 55,000 games launched on App Store in 2025 and 150,000 on [music] Google Play. In short, market is saturated, monetization is king, and strategy titles are the big winners, obviously, but don't try to do forex. It's tough.

Ubisoft rolled out Tom Clansy's Rainbow 6 mobile globally on 20th of February. After regional soft launches, the tactical shooter debuted worldwide on iOS and Android, bringing team-based FPS combat to mobile. CBS and Zingga also announced a partnership for Survivor 50 franchise, introducing mobile talins across world with friends and Zinga poker. Vugga's [music] hidden objective J's journey is getting an agata Christi crossover starting in April 2026. The game will introduce Eril Po and puzzle set in Christi inspired location noted that about 90% of the player base is female and the event celebrates the outers and during appeal. Separately, Pica added Betty Boop themed slot machines to slot mania, a house of fun, and Caesar slots. The new [music] games incorporate chess age visuals, special

features, and social elements to refresh players. Playas Q4 2025 report released today, February 26th, showed revenue of 678.8 million, which is up 4.4% yearonear. But the company posted a 309.3 million net loss due largely to earnouts [music] adjustments. Full year 2025 revenue was 2.76 billion with a net loss [music] of 206.4 million. The company guided [music] 2026 revenue between 2.7 to 2.8 billion, signaling a cautious optimism. And that's it for this week, my dear friends. See you next week.