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Documents
Gaming Creators Research: January-May 2023
HypeFactory surveyed 15 gaming content creators who primarily operate on YouTube and Twitch, with research covering January to May 2023.
- Channel growth was named by 67% of respondents as their 2023 goal, ahead of enhancing content quality at 20% and income boosting at 13%.
- Burnout was cited as a concern by 16% of creators, alongside worries about capturing audience attention (22%) and challenges with content creation (33%).
- Sixty percent of gaming creators confirmed that AI has no share in their work.
Monthly Games Industry Report: June 2023
The document is the June 2023 edition of a monthly games industry report, a digest of news across games and apps, investments, market research, and articles and interviews, drawn from multiple sources.
- Liftoff reports that mid-core games account for 35% of gaming revenue.
- Omdia's research projects the games industry cloud services market will exceed $12 billion by 2023, with AWS and Azure identified as the leading cloud platforms.
- M.O.B.A. Network announced its acquisition of Wargraphs, a gaming services provider and in-game app developer, for up to $54.5 million.
Monthly Games Industry Report: May 2023
The document is the May 2023 edition of a monthly games industry report, a compilation of news items spanning games and apps, investments, market research and financials across the mobile, PC, console and blockchain segments.
- Capcom reported record-high net sales for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, reaching $906 million.
- Take-Two Interactive reported net revenue of $5.35 billion for fiscal year 2023, an increase of 52.6%.
- Nordcurrent reported a 42% revenue increase in 2022, reaching €89 million.
Monthly Game Industry Report: April 2023
The Monthly Game Industry Report for April 2023 is a compilation of game industry news items, organized into Games & Apps, Investments, Market Research, and Financial Reports sections, each summarizing a single development or publication.
- According to Liftoff's 2023 Casual Gaming Apps Report, as cited in the document, user acquisition costs are three times higher on iOS than on Android.
- The report states the average CPI is $2.23 for iOS and $0.63 for Android, with simulation games having the lowest CPI at $0.59.
- SEGA acquired Rovio for £625 million, a deal the document presents as a surprise given SEGA's recent stability.
Monthly Game Industry Report: January 2023
The document is the January 2023 Monthly Mobile Game Industry Report, a compilation of game-industry news items, each with a short summary, drawn from multiple sources across games and apps, investments, market research, and financial reports.
- Kwalee reported over 200 million downloads across all titles in 2022, with a 12% year-over-year revenue increase.
- China's NPPA granted licenses to 45 international games after 18 months, a lower number than the 76 companies granted licenses in the last bulk grant in 2021.
- MarketsandMarkets projects the global blockchain gaming market to reach $65.7 billion by 2027, growing from a current size of $4.6 billion at a CAGR of 70.3%.
Monthly Game Industry Report: March 2023
The document is a monthly digest of game-industry news for March 2023, organised as an index of games and apps, investments, market research and financial reports, with short write-ups drawn from press coverage and company announcements.
- Unity announced development of Unity AI, an ecosystem of AI-powered game development tools, which it claims will soon let millions of creators build real-time 3D content.
- Sensor Tower reports U.S. App Store downloads for hyper-casual games declined 24% year over year, while hybrid-casual numbers rose.
- CCP Games secured $40 million to develop a new AAA blockchain title set in the EVE universe, in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Monthly Game Industry Report: February - March 2023
The document is a monthly mobile game industry report covering February and March 2023, compiling games and apps news, investments, market research, and financial reports from across the video game sector.
- Ampere Analysis reports the 2022 global console gaming market declined 7.8% to $56.2 billion from $60.9 billion in 2021. Sony held a 45% share of the total.
- According to Ampere Analysis, PlayStation 5 outsold Microsoft's Xbox X and S series by almost 11.5 million units in 2022.
- Endnight Games announced that Sons of the Forest sold 2 million copies in its first 24 hours of early access.
Monthly Game Industry Report: October 2022
This October 2022 monthly mobile game industry report compiles data and articles from multiple sources, including Sensor Tower, SocialPeta, Tenjin, Unity, data.ai, GlobalData, Appodeal, CyberMedia Research and CTA.
- Mobile game player spending declined year-over-year in both Q1 and Q2 2022, with Q2 falling 6.9% to $20.1 billion according to Sensor Tower.
- Mid-core games generated about 60% of global mobile game player spending in H1 2022, with role-playing games at 27%.
- Honor of Kings generated over $222 million in August 2022 and topped the overall revenue chart, with about 94% of its income from China.
Monthly Game Industry Report: September 2022
The document is a September 2022 monthly compilation of game-industry news and data, drawn from multiple third-party sources including Apptica, SensorTower, GameRefinery, Tenjin, Perforce, Technavio, PwC, HIRO Capital and others.
- Lilith Games' Rise of Kingdoms became the most revenue-generating mobile game in Q2 2022, earning over 179.5 million during the three-month period.
- Tencent's Honor of Kings topped the overall July 2022 mobile revenue chart with 225.88 in player spending, and nearly 95% of its revenue came from China.
- Stumble Guys took the number one spot in overall downloads for July 2022 with over 30.5 million downloads, about ten times the previous year.
Monthly Game Industry Report: August 2022
This is the August 2022 Monthly Game Industry Report, a compilation of mobile and wider games-industry findings drawn from third-party sources including Sensor Tower, Sociolpeta, Newzoo, Edgegap, Twitter, and company financial reports, covering mostly June 2022 and first-half 2022 data.
- Honor of Kings was the highest-earning mobile game in June 2022 per Sensor Tower, with about $238 million in player spending.
- Spending on non-game apps exceeded game spending on the US App Store for the first time, reaching 50.3% of spending by June 2022.
- In June 2022, mobile game player spending was about $6.4 billion across Apple and Google stores, a roughly 10% decrease year-over-year, per Sensor Tower.
Monthly Game Industry Report: July 2022
The document is a July 2022 monthly mobile game industry report compiled from several sources, including Tenjin, GameRefinery, SensorTower, McKinsey & Company, Entertainment Software Association, Google, Oyunfor and AppQuantum.
- Seventy-five percent of advertisers surveyed by Tenjin said their iOS revenue was negatively impacted after Apple's IDFA protocol.
- Tenjin reports that 59% of surveyed advertisers moved their ad budgets from iOS to Android, though not necessarily leaving iOS completely.
- Sixty-six percent of Americans play video games every week, according to the Entertainment Software Association study.
Monthly Mobile Game Industry Report: June 2022
The document is a June 2022 monthly mobile game industry compilation covering global and regional market data, drawing on Newzoo and SocialPeta figures.
- Newzoo projects global 2022 consumer spending on games to reach $203.1 billion, an annual increase of 5.4%.
- Mobile game revenues are expected to exceed $100 billion for the first time in 2022, reaching $103.5 billion, while mobile's share of the global market falls to 51%.
- The US is projected to generate more 2022 consumer game revenue than China, at $50.5 billion versus $50.2 billion.
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