Following two years of developing and testing, ad analytics platform Playable Platform announced some stats on their self-optimizing ad technology.

AppMagic rounded up the top mobile games by downloads and revenue in December 2019.

In 2019, only 1,570 video games were licensed by the Chinese authorities, according to Niko Partners. That’s way less than 8,500 at the peak in 2017.

Twitter posted a leaderboard of games that generated the most buzz among its users in the past year. Fate/Grand Order occupied the top spot in the ranking, with Fortnite being the second most tweeted about title and Final Fantasy coming in third.

Tencent made a capital investment in PlatinumGames, the studio behind Bayonetta. No details were disclosed, but the developer says that the deal will not affect how the company operates.

Supercell is once again one of top five highest-grossing mobile game publishers globally in 2019. Its flagship title Clash of Clans grossed $727 million in the past year.

Thaine Lyman, General Manager of the mobile studio at Wargaming Minsk, is one of the key people behind the publisher’s flagship mobile title World of Tanks Blitz. On Thaine’s watch, Tanks Blitz entered its sixth year on the market and did so with flying colors: the game reached an unprecedented DAU of 1.5 million players globally.

With the festive mist of the holiday season clearing away, Randy Nelson, Head of Mobile Insights at Sensor Tower, looks back at 2019. We join him to discuss what the past year meant for mobile.

IndieDB named the best indie games from the past year. There are two parrallel rankings: the best games across 11 categories selected by the IndieDB editors and 10 best games chosen by players.

It took indie hit Untitled Goose Game three months to sell 1 million copies. The news was proudly conveyed by Cabel Sasser, co-founder at Panic, the game’s publisher.

With two days to go before 2020, we still had time to catch up with Justin Farren, Executive Producer at Wargaming, to discuss what 2019 means (meant?) for the industry.

4 years after the release, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt breaks its own record. Its peak concurrent player number on Steam has exceeded 94,000.

Callum Underwood, Director of Special Projects at SUPERHOT Team, announced that SUPERHOT VR generated over $2 million over the past week alone. This takes into account all platforms where the game is available.

The Surge 2 from Deck13 became one of this year’s top releases on Steam. With 2019 almost over, Jan Klose, co-founder and managing director at Deck13, as well creative director on The Surge 2, reflects on the achievements of the year and what lies ahead.

Valve posted a bunch of its 2019 top games lists.

The conflict between Hong Kong and China is affecting the gaming world once more. Players are taking advantage of new items added in GTA V’s Diamond Casino Heist update to look like Hong Kong protesters.

Nintendo revealed top indie games by revenue on Switch.

Tencent recently revealed an AI system that could beat teams of pros in its MOBA hit Honor of Kings (aka Arena of Valor).

Analyst platform deltaDNA conducted a study on how its clients, mobile game developers, work with ads in their products.