Studios & teams
Headcount trends, opening and closing patterns, work-for-hire pipelines and where the talent is actually moving.
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Games-market intelligence · Online, worldwide
Read the games market before it moves you.
Skelora turns scattered launch data, funding rounds and revenue signals into dashboards and briefings you can act on — whether you ship games, fund them, or forecast them.
Figures shown across this site are illustrative examples of our data views.
Global games revenue · 2026e
$0B
6.4%
Live-service share of top-100 revenue
0%
3.1pt
Disclosed studio funding · Q1 2026
$0B
11%
Live feed
What crossed the desk this week
A running record of the signals our analysts flagged. Pro members get the full annotated stream and the numbers behind each line.
Nordic co-dev studio closes a Series BSecond raise in 14 months; headcount to roughly double by year end.
$74M
round Extraction shooter tops the weekly concurrency chartPeak concurrents held for six days before the first content patch. 318k
peak Subscription catalogue adds a first-party day-one slateAnalysts split on whether it lifts attach rate or cannibalises unit sales. +41
titles Mobile puzzle leader posts a soft quarterUser acquisition costs up; net bookings slip against a strong comparable. -6%
QoQ Publisher folds a work-for-hire art house into its groupDeal terms undisclosed; the studio keeps its Hamburg office open. 120
staff
round Extraction shooter tops the weekly concurrency chartPeak concurrents held for six days before the first content patch. 318k
peak Subscription catalogue adds a first-party day-one slateAnalysts split on whether it lifts attach rate or cannibalises unit sales. +41
titles Mobile puzzle leader posts a soft quarterUser acquisition costs up; net bookings slip against a strong comparable. -6%
QoQ Publisher folds a work-for-hire art house into its groupDeal terms undisclosed; the studio keeps its Hamburg office open. 120
staff
Coverage
Four beats, tracked continuously
Every dashboard, briefing and report is built from these four data streams — updated as the market gives us something worth updating.
Funding & deals
Disclosed rounds, M&A, publisher advances and platform funds — with our read on what the money is buying.
48h from disclosureLaunches & performance
Concurrency, wishlists, review velocity and retention curves for the titles moving the charts this week.
Weekly snapshotsStructural analysis
The slower work: revenue mix by model, platform economics and the quarterly report that puts a quarter in context.
Quarterly deep-diveState of the market
Growth is back — but it is not spread evenly.
$0BEst. global revenue, 2026 6.4%
0BPlayers worldwide 2.7%
0%Revenue from mobile
0%Top-100 revenue from live-service
Illustrative figures for demonstration. Live members see sourced, dated versions.
Revenue by segment · indexed to 2021 = 100
illustrativeMobile flattening, PC/console live-service pulling the index up. Illustrative.
How it works
From raw disclosure to a number you can defend
Step 01Collect
Pull the primary signal
Filings, funding announcements, storefront metrics and platform disclosures — gathered daily, timestamped, and kept as the raw record so a claim can always be traced back.
Step 02Normalise
Make the numbers comparable
Currencies converted to USD, revenue models separated, one-off items stripped out. A live-service quarter and a premium launch stop looking like the same shape.
Step 03Interpret
Write the read
An analyst says what the data means and, just as often, what it does not. Every estimate is labelled as an estimate. We would rather be useful than certain.
Inside Skelora
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We are a distributed team that meets over the data every morning. Charts go up on the screen, someone argues the read, and only the version that survives the room ends up in your briefing.
The desk
Who reads the tape
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The desk reviewing the week's numbers before the Monday briefing.
Lead analystStudios & funding
The funding & studios desk
Tracks who raised, who hired, who quietly stopped hiring. Builds the studio watchlist and writes the deal notes that land in the Monday briefing.
AnalystLaunches & live-ops
The performance desk
Lives in concurrency and retention curves. Separates a strong launch week from a title that will actually hold players three months later.
AnalystPlatforms & structure
The structural desk
Owns the quarterly report — platform economics, revenue mix and the longer arguments that a single week of data can only hint at.
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Briefings
Longer reads from the desk
A sample of the analysis Pro members get in full. Each one is built on illustrative data views like the ones across this page.
The State of the Games Market in 2026: Five Charts That Explain It
Revenue is growing again — but the shape of that growth tells a more interesting story than the headline number.
Read the briefing →
Why Live-Service Games Dominate Revenue (and What Comes Next)
A minority of titles now earn most of the money. We look at how that happened and where the model runs out of room.
Read the briefing →
How to Read a Studio's Financials Before You Invest or Join
The five lines that tell you more than a pitch deck — whether you are writing a cheque or signing a contract.
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