Mobile gaming’s $1 billion club has grown tenfold since 2016

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Five years ago, just six mobile gaming apps had made $1 billion or more in global revenues since 2014. As of H1 2021, a whopping 64 mobile games have crossed the billion-dollar threshold, with eight of them scoring over $5 billion apiece. That’s a lot of candy crushed, Pokémon captured, and birds angered.

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