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Liftoff’s Mobile AppDev Awards 2025 Finalists Announced
The Mobile AppDev Awards 2025 recognizes excellence in mobile games and apps
Liftoff, the leading provider of marketing, monetization, and creative solutions for the mobile industry, has announced the finalists for the 2025 Mobile AppDev Awards.
Now in its fourth year, the Mobile AppDev Awards mark the best collaborations, social events, and minigame events in midcore and casual gaming, as well as marking both notable newcomers and evolving game apps.
For the first time, the 2025 awards will celebrate non-gaming apps for their innovation and use of engagement, social, and AI-powered features, drawing upon the skills and expertise of the team behind AppRefinery, Liftoff’s new insights platform designed to revolutionize app development and growth.
A jury of expert game and app analysts selected finalists across five gaming categories, each split into midcore and casual, as well as for the first year, four non-gaming categories.
Gaming categories (both midcore and casual) are:
- Best Collaboration Event
- Best Social Event
- Best Minigame
- Best Newcomer
- Biggest Evolver
New for 2025, the non-gaming app categories are:
- Best Feature Innovation
- Best Use of Engagement Features
- Excellence in Social Features
- Excellence in AI-Powered Features
The winners will be announced on May 13th, 2025.
The finalists for the 2025 Mobile AppDev Awards are:
Best Collaboration Event (Midcore):
- Summoners War: Sky Arena x Jujutsu Kaisen by Com2uS
- PUBG Mobile x Venom: The Last Dance by Tencent
- Brawl Stars x Spongebob Squarepants by Supercell
- Goddess of Victory: NIKKE x Dave the Diver: Aegis the Diver by Level Infinite
- Diablo Immortal x World of Warcraft: Eternal War by Blizzard Entertainment
Best Collaboration Event (Casual):
- Stumble Guys x My Hero Academia by Scopely
- Mob Control x Transformers by Voodoo
- Sky: Children of the Light x Moomin by Thatcamecompany
- Grand Harvest x Snoopy: Snoopy’s Camp by Supertreat – A Playtika Studio
- Monopoly GO! x Marvel by Scopely
Best Social Event (Midcore):
- Legend of Mushroom – Age of Discovery, seasonal 4x mode/event by Joy Net Games
- Squad Busters – Piñata Festival by Supercell
- League of Legends: Wild Rift – Battle of Twin Cities by Riot Games
- Diablo Immortal – Howler Hunt by Blizzard Entertainment
- Free Fire – Outlaw by Garena
Best Social Event (Casual):
- Roblox – The Games by Roblox Corporation
- Phase 10 – Pirate Duel by Mattel163
- Monopoly GO! – Tycoon Racers by Scopely
- Triple Match 3D – Global Animal Challenge by Boombox Games
- Candy Crush Saga – Golden Crowns by King
Best Minigame (Midcore):
- State of Survival – Paw-some Puzzle Party by FunPlus
- League of Legends: Wild Rift – RUINATION: Kalista’s Odyssey by Riot Games
- Whiteout Survival – Tundra Games: Kitty Rescue by Century Games
- Goddess of Victory: NIKKE x Dave the Diver: Aegis the Diver by Level Infinite
- Honkai: Star Rail – Conventional Memoir by MiHoYo
Best Minigame (Casual):
- Match Masters – Matchinko: Travel Tales by Candivore
- Love and Deepspace – Bounce, Bounce Planet by InFold
- Homescapes – Restoration events by Playrix
- Phase 10 – Jewel Craze by Mattel163
- Merge Mansion – Secret Supply by Metacore
Best Newcomer (Midcore):
- Legend of Mushroom by Joy Net Games
- Top Heroes by RiverGame
- Pokémon TCG Pocket by The Pokémon Company
- Dungeon Fighter (地下城与勇士:起源, CN) by Tencent
- Age of Empires Mobile by Level Infinite
Best Newcomer (Casual):
- Love and Deepspace by InFold
- Truck Star by Century Games
- Screw Jam by Rollic Games
- Domino Dreams™ by SuperPlay
- Royal Kingdom by Dream Games
Biggest Evolver (Midcore):
- Brawl Stars by Supercell
- League of Legends: Wild Rift by Riot Games
- Last War: Survival by First Fun
- Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus ™ by Snowprint Studios
- Tokyo Debunker by ZigZaGame
Biggest Evolver (Casual):
- Hexa Sort by Lion Studios
- Match Factory! by Peak Games
- Matching Story by Vertex Games
- Dice Dreams™ by SuperPlay
- Seaside Escape®: Merge & Story by Microfun
Non-Gaming App – Best Feature Innovation:
- Chime by Chime
- The Weather Channel by The Weather Channel
- Duolingo by Duolingo
- DraftKings by DraftKings
- Google Maps by Google
Non-Gaming App – Best Use of Engagement Features:
- Instagram by Instagram
- Spotify by Spotify
- Trip.com by Trip.com
- Calm by Calm
- Audible by Audible
Non-Gaming App – Excellence in Social Features:
- Binance by Binance
- Tinder by Tinder Inc.
- Snapchat by Snap
- TikTok by TikTok Pte Ltd
- BIGO LIVE by BIGO
Non-Gaming App – Excellence in AI-Powered Features:
- Pinterest by Pinterest
- Spotify by Spotify
- Snapchat by Snap
- Instagram by Instagram
- Duolingo by Duolingo
For more information about the awards and the finalists, please visit the official Mobile AppDev Awards website.
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Slotegrator’s 2025: the year in numbers
For Slotegrator, a leading software and business solution provider for online casino and sportsbook operators, 2025 marked a year of restructuring and modernization. The company outlines the key transformations of the past year and the strategy shaping its path through 2026.
Throughout 2025, Slotegrator focused on developing its technological and business solutions for gambling operators worldwide. And those efforts — as well as the team’s substantial growth — have paid off, driving the company to new heights of success.
One indicator of positive performance is an increase in demand. Slotegrator recorded strong growth in demand for its products in multiple regions:
- The Balkans (+168%)
- Africa (+132%)
- Australia and Oceania (+111%)
- Central and Eastern Europe (+76%)
In addition to expanding geographically, Slotegrator grew and developed in several key areas: the size of its client and partner network, the scale of its revenues and market share, and the nature of its leadership.
The company now has nearly 300 clients and over 650 projects worldwide, with 217 new projects launched in 2025 alone. That expansion has translated directly to a rise in revenues; the company’s estimated share of global online gambling GGR reached around 0.8%, driven by an 81% YoY increase in GGR and a 71% rise in Total Bets.
One of this year’s key changes was the appointment of Olga Ivanchik as chief operating officer. With an extensive industry and management background to draw on, she is leading the company’s focus on sustainable scaling, ESG integration, and further strengthening of the internal team.
The company also continued to expand the capabilities of its products. APIgrator, the game aggregator solution, surpassed the threshold of 40,000 online casino games, supported by new strategic partnerships with Octopus Global, Urgent Games, Peter&Sons, Winfinity, Enjoy Gaming, PHOENIX 7, Bellot, InOut Games, and BEON. Another major milestone of 2025 was obtaining a gambling license in Anjouan, enabling Slotegrator to extend its services to a wider range of operators worldwide.
The turnkey online casino platform from Slotegrator also underwent one of the most significant transformations in Slotegrator’s history. More than 1,000 product improvements were implemented in 2025 alone, laying a solid foundation for scalability and advanced analytics.
The platform upgrades covered business intelligence and reporting, limitless scalability, security and authentication, bonus module performance, affiliate integrations, resilient infrastructure, an improved Casino Builder solution, and a significantly reduced time-to-market.
“2025 was a year of major milestones for us. While the global iGaming market continues to evolve at high speed, we not only maintained our strong position but expanded it on multiple levels. This year clearly showed that our strategic direction is right and our foundation is strong,” says Olga Ivanchik, COO at Slotegrator.
Slotegrator enters 2026 with a well-calculated strategy and ambitious plans. The company will continue the large-scale expansion of its team, demonstrate its ESG strategy with a focus on responsible gaming practices and ethical marketing, participate actively in industry events around the globe, conduct new research and media projects, and pursue multiple high-impact product updates. And on top of that, there will be some major announcements at the beginning of the year.
Among the most anticipated developments are a new localization service, a revolutionary tool within the Moneygrator solution, extended AI-powered features, and further transformation of the turnkey platform into a fully integrated ecosystem of high-efficiency services.
For Slotegrator, 2025 was a year of modernization, scale, and trust — and 2026 is set to be the next leap forward.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Since 2012, Slotegrator has been one of the iGaming industry’s leading software and business solution providers for online casino and sportsbook operators.
The company’s main focus is software development and support for online casino platforms, as well as the integration of game content and payment systems.
The company works with licensed game developers and offers a vast portfolio of casino content: slots, live casino games, poker, virtual sports, table games, lotteries, casual games, and data feeds for betting.
Slotegrator also provides consulting services in gambling license acquisition and business incorporation.
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Salford customer triumphs at Genting Casino £20k Spin Leaderboard Challenge final
The multi-stage competition, launched by premium Live Casino Genting Casino in October, invited online players across the UK to compete for leaderboard points by playing selected games, earn free spins and secure a place in a VIP live finale at Resorts World Birmingham.
The top five online qualifiers headed for a VIP weekend, including travel costs and a stay, culminating in a high-stakes live roulette tournament where one final spin decided the champion. The overall winner walked away with the £20,000 Grand Prize Spin, a life-changing moment for the tournament victor.
Genting Casino has Live Roulette streamed from Genting UK casinos, Palm Beach, Resorts World Birmingham and Genting Manchester and this competition brought together its digital and on-floor experiences, with customers transitioning from a digital competition to being invited and competing in a live casino format.
Speaking after the event, the winner, Karthik, who had never competed in a live casino tournament before, said: “No way! I never expected this at all. It came completely out of the blue. Suddenly, I got a call saying I was selected for the tournament.”
Despite the tension of the final spin, the winner revealed their approach: “I went purely with instinct. I don’t have a favourite colour. It was just a feeling in that moment. Looking at the board, there had been a lot of red, and it gave me the feeling to go with red.”
The winner described the experience as both exhilarating and rewarding: “Yes, absolutely. It wasn’t just about fun. It was also about how engaging everything was, the people, the organisation and the entire experience.”
The £20k Spin Leaderboard Challenge ran until 17 November 2025, granting players free spins and leaderboard points for qualifying deposits and gameplay. The top five qualifiers were invited to Resorts World Birmingham to compete in an exciting filmed live roulette bracket-style tournament, with the final spin determining who would take home the grand prize.
Mike Vella, Brand Marketing Project Manager at Genting Casino, said: “We couldn’t be happier with how the £20k Spin Leaderboard Challenge played out.
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“The team at Genting Casino and Resorts World Birmingham are immensely proud to have delivered such a seamless, exciting experience and we hope it inspires even more players to take part in future challenges.”
The success of this year’s leaderboard challenge highlights Genting Casino’s ongoing commitment to providing engaging experiences that bridge online excitement with unforgettable live moments on the casino floor.
Genting Casino, who offer a premier gaming experience with top-tier slots, is set to transport players straight to the heart of the Strip with its Las Vegas Casino Experience, launching in early 2026. This unique promotion will bring the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas to the digital platform, featuring themed games, exclusive jackpots and interactive experiences designed to capture the thrill of the iconic city’s casinos.
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Luca Richter, Sales Manager at 3 Oaks Gaming, said: “Italy remains a key region for our continued European growth, and partnering with Stanleybet.it reinforces our dedication to working with established, trusted platforms,”
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in the Italian gaming landscape, designed for those seeking diverse and engaging gaming experiences. This launch further strengthens our commitment to providing excellent content
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