The global video game market will reach almost $300 billion by 2027, according to the latest report by ResearchAndMarkets.com. Mobile titles will account for over half of this number.

The most ambitious gaming companies focus on the biggest genres — in terms of their audience and their cumulative revenue. Here is where the money lies, at least for those who dare play big. AppMagic founder Max Samorukov shared handy conclusions based on the most important changes that happened in the Western mobile games market in 2021.

MY.GAMES published research of Russia’s video games market. The company estimated its volume for 2020 at 163.4 billion rubles ($2.2 billion).

WN Media Group CEO Pavel Räikkönen has posted an overview of the global gaming market trends. The report also attempts a number of predictions on where we will see the industry evolve in the coming years.

Unity has released its latest gaming report, providing insights from 2020 on ad revenue and the market in general. The company also issues a forecast of key trends for 2021.

Analytics firm Juniper Research published a report that says the video games market will grow to over $200 billion in value in 2023. This is up from the $155 billion expected this year. Mobile and cloud gaming will be the biggest growth drivers.

Gamers in Germany spent around €6.2 billion on video games in 2019. That’s up 6 percent from 2018.

Coronavirus has affected areas of the games industry such as manufacturing and business development. However, in terms of sales, the picture is different. As our colleagues at GamesIndustry.biz report in their study, sales are growing.

The New Zealand Game Developers Association posted findings from its survey on the country’s games industry. The industry generated NZ$203 million ($131 million) in 2019, more than doubling from 2017’s NZ$99.9 million ($64.3 million).

AppMagic founder Max Samorukov shared the results of a new study into top performing game genres on mobile.

Facebook published a report on global trends in video games market. As per its findings, there are two main phenomena defining the industry.

The video game market is growing slower than a year before and slower than Newzoo analysts predicted earlier.

Women take the lead among mobile gamers in the Japanese market. This is according to the report by China’s Gamma Data based on the stats from Newzoo.

It’s going to be a good year for China’s two largest gaming companies. For that matter, it’s going to be a good year for all of the country’s digital gaming market.

In 2018, the EU video games market grew by 15% year on year and reached €21 billion. That’s according to the latest report by Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE).

South Korea is the 4th top economy by video games revenue after the US, China, and Japan.

The revenue of the mobile gaming market in Japan in 2018 reached $13.3 billion. But its growth rate is declining.

How to decide if a particular mobile genre is promising or not? Aleksandr Bezobrazov, Marketing Director at Social Quantum, breaks down the genre of restaurant sims and explains what metrics are important to look at.

What kind of video games market does Germany have? A post by “game – the German Games Industry Association” answers that.