Year: 2026

From national calendar days to religious holidays and even global sports events such as The Olympics, merging your live events and LiveOps strategy with real-world calendar events is an excellent…

From 2019 until 2020, 4X Strategy games had around 9-9,5% of the market share on iOS in the US when checking the individual quarters, but in 2021, when checking Q1…

Friendship seemed to be the running theme for April mobile updates, as several studios launched co-op or shared progression gameplay mechanics. One such example is the newly launched Piggy Squads…

Fresh mobile game market insights are here, handpicked by our GameRefinery game analysts! April’s highlights include Clash of Clans’ Starter Challenges feature, which tries to alleviate the problem that games…

Forget gotta catch ’em all; these days, it’s gotta hunt ’em all. September marked the launch of Niantic’s latest AR location-based title, Monster Hunter Now, which looks set to be a…

For over twenty years, Pride Month has been held in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots in 1969. This vibrant celebration of the LGBTQ+ community aims to increase awareness, promote…

For a good while now, communal mechanics such as guilds have been used to boost player engagement and loyalty in mobile games – especially in midcore genres. Last year we…

Following the high-level trend of hybridization across mobile, more and more casual games have started introducing competitive elements into their live event strategies. If executed correctly, introducing new mechanics in this…

First impressions are known to be important, but what about second impressions? When hoping to re-engage players that have quit playing for one reason or another, the first hurdle is…

Final Fantasy VII delighted fans of JRPG games in 1997 and has since been described by many as the best Final Fantasy ever. Of course, “the best” game is a…