The monthly active users (MAU) of Chinese mobile gaming industry surged 4.5 times year-over-year as of August 2013, according to a report jointly released by Chinese mobile analytics and service provider Umeng and digital entertainment expo ChinaJoy.
The growth speed is faster than the growth rate for Chinese mobile devices, which totaled 590 million as of the third quarter of 2013.
The report added that adventure games, causal games, chess and card games, sport games and strategic games took the top five spots in terms of growth of daily engagement times. Users are spending more time on soft-core games, with more than 42.1% of gamers choose casual games as their top options. The five most popular game categories in terms of time engagement are puzzle, action, chess and card, casual and sport games.
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