While 2020 had bad bits too, it certainly got game.
From April at least to September, the average weekly downloads of mobile games across the app stores "hovered around 1 billion," says app analytics firm App Annie.
The US and China especially drove global downloads to 14 billion from July to September.
And five games brought in over $1 billion in 2020.
Very tops on the leader board was Tencent's PUBG Mobile, which combined with its Chinese localization Game for Peace brought in $2.6 billion during 2020.
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Coronavirus made gaming mainstream.
Four out of five Americans have played a video game in the last six months, for instance, says Mat Piscatella, an analyst with NPD Group.