Month: January 2026

April was an interesting month for events and collaborations as mobile game developers made the most of Easter, April Fool’s Day and Ramadan celebrations to experiment with new features and…

Apple shocked the mobile advertising world this summer when it gave a two months’ notice of a seismic change in how mobile advertising campaigns would be targeted, measured and evaluated…

Anime has always had an immense following in Japan and Asia, but its popularity in the West has grown significantly over the past decade. The rise of streaming services has…

Analyst Bulletin is our new monthly blog series, in which we take a quick overview of interesting game updates found in GameRefinery’s service in the previous month. We’ll cover three…

Amongst the many innovations in mobile game features that we’ve noticed in the iOS market in recent months, one of the most interesting is the growth in what we term…

After Supercell’s Squad Busters smashed its way into soft launch, it was far too easy to miss all the other expansive updates, exciting new releases, and breakout hits that supercharged…

Accessible features, adaptive gameplay elements, and appealing visuals are just some of the reasons why Merge players keep coming back for more. Throw the apparent similarities with Match3 games into…

About a year after the term ‘HybridCasual’ was first coined, an ever-increasing number of professionals in the mobile games industry are acknowledging its existence. Even so much that it might…

A rank-sustaining mobile game needs solid liveops that often includes a variety of in-game events. As we all know, there are plenty of ways and reasons to hold an event.…

A great way to utilize GameRefinery’s Game Update Impacts is using the tool for background research for different features that you might be considering implementing into your game. Here’s one…