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This week’s need-to-know numbers in snackable form.| Mobilegamer.biz
This week’s need-to-know numbers in snackable form.| Mobilegamer.biz
Game developers will be able to run their own digital store across platforms directly through the Unity Engine.| Mobilegamer.biz
The Helsinki studio, best know for the Trials games, is 'refocusing on small screens' after expanding to become a multiplatform support studio.| Mobilegamer.biz
There's also news from Sunday, Stillfront and TIlting Point in this week's numbers round-up.| Mobilegamer.biz
Angry Birds Dream Blast is underperforming, says Rovio. The restructure means its Barcelona office is taking on more titles while its Finnish studio is focusing on fewer games.| Mobilegamer.biz
It is being delisted from app stores today, and servers will close for good in January 2026. But The Sims FreePlay lives on.| Mobilegamer.biz
UA funding outfit Plan A Games is led by several former Big Fish execs, and there's also recruitment news at Offroad Games, Mistplay, Oh Bibi, Netflix, Scopely, Small Giant and more.| Mobilegamer.biz
All of Supercell's games have been put into maintenance while the issue is fixed, and there are issues reported across many more major mobile games.| Mobilegamer.biz
There's also a new Dissidia/Final Fantasy game, a major new UGC mode in Genshin Impact, a Bleach game from ByteDance and plenty more in this week's round-up.| Mobilegamer.biz
Nintendo’s mobile portfolio has generated 816m downloads and $2.27bn in revenue since Super Mario Run launched in September 2016, according to Sensor Tower data.| Mobilegamer.biz
Reports of a Saudi-led EA takeover have sparked concerns across the games business, ranging from it being “generally bad” to a “total disaster”.| Mobilegamer.biz
Bloomberg reports that Arcadia Gaming Advisors will be focused on backing new mobile gaming companies.| Mobilegamer.biz
The industry veteran will be stepping away from day-to-day operations, but will remain on the board at the Woodoku maker.| Mobilegamer.biz
CEO Adam Foroughi says the claims from “nefarious” short sellers Culper and Fuzzy Panda are “littered with inaccuracies and false assertions”.| Mobilegamer.biz
CEO Lior Shiff tells us he is looking for small, scaleable, high potential games – plus larger targets.| Mobilegamer.biz
Let’s run through the likely options, including Scopely/Savvy, Take-Two, Playtika and a couple of wildcards.| Mobilegamer.biz
Machine Zone, PeopleFun, Magic Tavern, Lion Studios, Belka and more are being divested as AppLovin becomes a pure adtech business.| Mobilegamer.biz
UPDATE: AppLovin has confirmed this rumour, stating that it has informed the US president that it wants to “explore a purchase of TikTok in all markets outside of China”.| Mobilegamer.biz
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The tech giant will not relinquish control easily and plans to test the limits of new EU laws, the Wall Street Journal reports.| Mobilegamer.biz
The streaming giant says it’ll “stay disciplined” with its investment in games while snapping up big-name titles like GTA. “Party and couch co-op games on TV delivered from the cl…| Mobilegamer.biz
Our latest look at Netflix games’ estimated download numbers shows GTA on top, while recent releases Squid Game and Monument Valley 3 hit 18m and 2m respectively.| Mobilegamer.biz
Bill Jackson, creative director at Netflix’s Boss Fight studio, says user data mostly guides which game adaptation gets made next – but the pitch must also excite his developers, too.| Mobilegamer.biz
Game director Bill Jackson explains that the party platformer is effectively a marketing tool for Squid Game 2 – and “the biggest, most ambitious” Netflix game yet.| Mobilegamer.biz
The latest need-to-know data, research and financial results in digestible chunks.| Mobilegamer.biz
This week’s new releases, launch dates and fresh soft launches at-a-glance.| Mobilegamer.biz
20% of first party PlayStation output will be on mobile by 2025, says SIE boss Jim Ryan.| Mobilegamer.biz
Take a peek at the games in testing from Supercell, Playrix, EA, Ubisoft, Rovio, Miniclip and more.| Mobilegamer.biz
A Business Insider report suggests the London-based studio is nearing a $900m deal for AppLovin’s 10 studios. We’d heard the same rumours, but were unable to verify the claims.| Mobilegamer.biz
Tripledot paid $400m in cash for 10 AppLovin game studios, with AppLovin taking a 20% ownership stake in Tripledot as part of the deal.| Mobilegamer.biz
Apple will take a 17% cut of IAP from larger developers who sign up to the new terms, and then add a €0.50 fee per install charge on top for every download over 1m.| Mobilegamer.biz
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But it’s getting there, according to Netflix games leaders Jeet Shroff and Alain Tascan. They say a new batch of party, kids, big IP and big screen games are coming by the end of the year.| Mobilegamer.biz
PlayStation has quietly been building a brand new mobile division packed with talent. Here’s who’s joined so far.| Mobilegamer.biz
Find out what top execs from Xsolla, My Games, King, SciPlay, Phantom Gamelabs, Fingersoft and more are expecting this year.| Mobilegamer.biz
Apple’s game subscription service seems to be on auto-pilot after the tech giant “cancelled a shitload of projects and pissed off a lot of people,” our sources say. And now there are whispers of an…| Mobilegamer.biz
