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The company’s mobile games have been played by over 400 million users.

Storm8 Inc., the California-based company and the leading developer of social games for Android and iOS, has seen an increase in its mobile gaming network, which has two times the amount of users it did in the previous year.

Storm8 is excited about mobile games and the future.

According to the company’s chief executive Perry Tam, “We’ve been around for five years, and I’ve been extremely excited about how we’ve done in the last year. We believe that is an exciting achievement, and we are excited about the future of mobile gaming.”

On average, Storm8 has approximately 50 million active users per month and offers 40 free-to-play mobile games. For over 20 quarters the company has been profitable and its high earnings have allowed it to maintain a workforce of over 250 people.

Its recent milestone has occurred despite the fact that Storm8 is not a huge name in the mobile gaming industry. It hasn’t produced any major titles like Candy Crush Saga developed by King or Clash of the Clans from Supercell. Nevertheless, even though it has not reached this fame quiet yet, Tam has said that six of the company’s games are always in the top 100-grossing games on iOS. He said that for April’s top-grossing ranks, Storm8 was among the top 10 of the biggest game publishers.

Storm8’s mobile gaming plans include launching 12 new games in 2014.

The company publishes one game per month and intends to release 12 titles this year. While they mostly produce casual games, they also develop games that cover a range of diverse genres. Some of Storm8’s more popular titles are Bubble Mania, Dragon Story, Bingo! and Jewel Mania.

Storm8 has been profitable since 2009 when it was first established by Tam and others who once worked for social media giant, Facebook. At no point during its existence has outside funding ever been raised by the social gaming company.

A large number of its customers are from the United States, Canada, Australia and Western Europe, but the majority of its customers are in Asia and in emerging markets. Tam commented that there are billions of mobile users and the company wants “to encapsulate as many of them as possible” by continuing to grow its mobile gaming network.

Analysts say that mobile gamers are looking for more than repetitive game play.

Although games like the “Candy Crush Saga” are still highly lucrative in the free-to-play mobile gaming industry, other games like “Clash of Clans” that provide gamers with a more challenging experience, are notably gaining greater popularity and becoming quite lucrative.

Supercell’s fortress defense game is currently in the lead over King Digital’s popular puzzle game.

Last year, Supercell’s “Clash of Clans” was battling neck and neck with King Digital’s “Candy Crush Saga”, to be the mobile game that would have grossed the most profits in 2013. However, so far, in 2014, “Clash of Clans” is proving to be the dominant of the two.

Analysts believe the style of game that appears to be the most successful is a good indication of which type mobile users are likely to spend money on in the future. According to the CEO of Super Data Research, Joost van Dreunen, “It’s starting to get to the point where, if nothing else, you have to have a little bit more of an enticing offering, a larger narrative and broader brand.”

The market for “Clash of Clans” and other “midcore” games like it is expanding. Many mobile gamers are looking for a mobile gaming experience that is more engaging than what causal games, such as “Candy Crush”, have to offer. This doesn’t mean that casual games will become less lucrative, but mobile developers are finding that the demand for titles that immerse users in game play are likely to boost engagement, which increases the probability of users spending more on the additional paid features that are offered for these free-to-play mobile games.

Midcore mobile games are highly lucrative in the mobile gaming industry.

Mobile games that fall into the midcore category are not as repetitious in terms of game play as puzzle games are, for example. Instead, they offer the user with more flexibility and options. For instance, they may have a storyline and characters that are customizable. In addition, it is not uncommon for role-playing and real-time strategy elements to be integrated into these games. In essence, they have certain features that immerse gamers in a similar way as “core” computer and console games do.

It is estimated by NewZoo, a video games market research firm, that of the $14.9 billion that the mobile market made in 2013, worldwide profits for midcore mobile gaming were responsible for $3.8 billion of this total. This is almost two times higher than the $2 billion in returns that was made in 2012 by these types of games.