Brawl Stars Changes Its Expansion Format Again Brawl Stars’ Battle for Katana Kingdom follows the structure of the app’s recent major expansions by offering event abilities, new skins, and several new modes. However, this expansion splits its...
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How Hypercasual Mechanics Helped Strategy Overtake RPG
How Strategy Overtook RPG as Core’s Top Genre In 2024, revenue among the top five strategy apps grew an average of almost 400% YoY, helping strategy overtake RPG as the top genre in the core market. Last War: Survival, the top strategy app, has...
Hero-Sharing Is a Major Opportunity for Retention
How Hero-Sharing Drives Retention Cookie Run: Kingdom’s latest feature allows players to rent out one hero from their collection, enabling all other players to temporarily use that hero. This feature gives players access to powerful heroes, which...
Bidding Mechanics Remove the Ceiling on Spend
Bidding Mechanics Remove the Ceiling on Spend Garena Free Fire’s latest competition introduces an auction for cosmetics with unique ID numbers. To earn the cosmetics, players bid premium currency to rank on a 100-player auction board, and ranking...
Our Biggest Insights for the Core Market in 2024
Temporary Hero Abilities Drive Huge Revenue Brawl Stars hit record-high weekly revenue twice this year by releasing expansions that include powerful temporary abilities and new game modes. The first, Godzilla Event, awards temporary abilities...
How Brawl Stars Keeps Breaking Revenue Records
How Brawl Stars Keeps Driving Record-High Revenue Brawl Stars’ Angels vs. Demons expansion continues the app’s remarkable 2024 streak, boosting revenue by 60% WoW and leading to its highest weekly revenue ever. Similar to other successful...
One of This Year’s Biggest Expansions
Empires & Puzzles Aims Big on Its Latest Expansion Empires & Puzzles’ Dragonspire expansion offers a massive standalone experience that rivals the scope of the app’s base game. The expansion adds a new type of hero that players use to build...
A Huge Combo Event Boosts Revenue 80%
How To Fuse Several Events Into a Single Progression Cookie Run: Kingdom’s latest collection event offers an innovative progression that requires players to advance through four separate events to unlock a valuable hero. Each event drives a...
Adding Progressions to Skins Boosts Revenue 25%
Core's First Progression for Skin Collection Mobile Legends: Bang Bang’s Collection feature is the first permanent progression for skin collection we’ve seen in any core app. In this feature, acquiring hero skins advances players in a ranking...
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