In this week’s new game digest: Reigns does The Witcher, Warframe, Candy Crush, an ‘AI first’ battler, Moonton's new game, Supercent's latest soft launch, another battle royale and more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-dig...

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Every week I go on a walk and tell you what’s going on in the mobile game business in under 20 minutes. In this week's podcast: international attendees skipping GDC, AppLovin allegations, app makers seeking mobile game talent and more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

In this week’s data digest: - US and 2025 market stats - CEOs optimistic for 2026 - December’s top games - Mag financials - ZBDs $40m raise - More: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...

A new report from short-seller CapitalWatch makes the wild claim that AppLovin is a “digital laundromat” for criminal money. AppLovin has denied the allegations, and sent a cease-and-desist letter to get the claims retracted: mobilegamer.biz/applovin-dem...

Here’s @alexforbescalvin.bsky.social on why major app developers are increasingly seeking out mobile game talent - and how the wider app economy might offer an escape route for those tiring of the churn in gaming: mobilegamer.biz/why-non-gami...

Not much I can do about this but GameRant’s five minute re-write of this story I worked on for a week is on the front page of Reddit steering all of the traffic away from the original, which is here: mobilegamer.biz/many-interna...

Our latest jobs digest has moves at Scopely, Arcade, Netflix, Outfit7, Agora, Voodoo, Blizzard, Miniclip, Embracer, Outplay, NaturalMotion, Liftoff, Craftsman, Supercell and more: mobilegamer.biz/jobs-digest-...

In this week’s new game digest: the NYT’s new puzzler, Arknights: Endfield, Rainbow Six mobile, Angry Birds news, Braid, Sega's new football management game, Miniclip’s brick breaker, TR-49, plenty more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-dig...

In the podcast this week: Ubisoft’s big reorg, critics and mobile's reputation problem, PGC London thoughts plus data, soft launch and new game news: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

Here’s what that big Ubisoft reorg means for its mobile games: mobilegamer.biz/ubisoft-reor...

Ending 'game writers actually writing about mobile games' week on a high with this one

In this week’s data digest: Monopoly Go hits $6bn, TaleMonster gets $30m, UA hits $25bn, some live ops and webshop stats plus milestones for SayGames, Love and Deepspace, Arknights, eFootball and Hill Climb Racing: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...

Nostalgia, compulsive card-collecting and peer pressure has kept Guardian games critic @grapedosmil.bsky.social playing Pokémon TCG Pocket every day since launch. Critics week continues here: mobilegamer.biz/critics-week...

'Games writers actually writing about mobile games' week continues here

Next up in critics week, VGC deputy editor and general games media legend @scully1888.bsky.social on breaking the curse of Disney Solitaire: mobilegamer.biz/critics-week...

Four more cool games writers coming to the site this week, stay tuned

In our latest soft launch update, we’ve got new additions from Moon Active and Tripledot plus games in testing from Playrix, Rovio, Zynga, Supercell, Miniclip, Supercent and more: mobilegamer.biz/the-soft-lau...

In this week’s new game digest: Subway Surfers City, One Punch Man: World closes, Rovio’s ‘luck battle’ Angry Birds game, Civilization VII, Aniimo, more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-dig...

In the podcast this week: Red Dead Redemption, Moon Active, Playtika, Liftoff, 2025’s top games, data, jobs and more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Playtika is cutting 500 staff as it abandons its growth strategy and looks to AI for efficiencies: mobilegamer.biz/playtika-to-...

In this week’s data digest: more big 2025 numbers, AppsFlyer’s potential $2bn sale, Block Blast passes 70m DAU, App Store earnings, Q4 IAP stats and more: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...

Moon Active appears ready to soft launch two more new games, Family Bay and Jelly Busters – another sign it is looking to expand its live game portfolio: mobilegamer.biz/coin-master-...

Liftoff has filed for an IPO. The mobile ad firm is backed by investing giant Blackstone, which will retain control of the company once the IPO is complete: mobilegamer.biz/mobile-ad-fi...

Apple seems to have photshopped the shotgun out of this Red Dead art (presumably with Rockstar's blessing) because the App Store doesn't like guns. Which is funny given the stuff they *do* allow on there mobilegamer.biz/red-dead-red...

Eight games raked in over $1bn in IAP revenue during 2025, according to Appmagic’s full-year top grossing charts – a new record. All the 2025 numbers and analysis you need is here: mobilegamer.biz/the-top-gros...

Block Blast racked up a whopping 368m downloads in 2025, according to Appmagic, beating second-placed Roblox easily. Free Fire, Subway Surfers and Pizza Ready were in the mix too – get all the numbers and analysis here: mobilegamer.biz/the-top-mobi...

How is Red Dead Redemption doing on mobile? After just over a month, Appmagic says the $39.99 edition has just passed 10k downloads, while the Netflix version has over 3.3m installs: mobilegamer.biz/red-dead-red...

A bumper jobs digest for you, with big moves at Antihero, Supercell, Niantic, NetEase, Rovio, Roblox, Trailmix, Tripledot, Appcharge, Hasbro, Stash, King, Playtika, Lego and more. Plus, the App Store's former boss reveals his new venture: mobilegamer.biz/jobs-digest-...

There's another NYT Connections-alike in this, seems to be a thing

On this week’s podcast: Roblox brainrot explained, Ustwo's strategy switch, Ubi closes mobile studio, 2026 predictions, data nuggets to nibble on and more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

December’s top grossing mobile game rankings, according to Appmagic, saw Last War overtake Roblox while Gossip Harbor and Kingshot continued to grow steadily. Read the full analysis here: mobilegamer.biz/decembers-to...

Last month saw Block Blast, Roblox and Free Fire continue to dominate the download chart, but there were plenty of surprises in the Appmagic estimates, too – read our full analysis here: mobilegamer.biz/decembers-to...

Assassin’s Creed Rebellion is on ice after the closure of Ubisoft Halifax, the French publisher’s specialist mobile studio. 71 staff are affected: mobilegamer.biz/assassins-cr...

Monument Valley maker Ustwo Games is now a ‘PC first’ studio after years as the go-to outfit for Apple Arcade and Netflix games. And Netflix’s sudden decision to ditch MV3 after just six months helped solidify the shift away from mobile: mobilegamer.biz/ustwo-games-...

In this week’s data digest: mobile remains the top games category with 55% of the market, 2025's top grossing games and publishers, NCsoft’s big buy plus stats from Metacore, Mag and more: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...

Ten more well-known industry figures reveal their 2026 predictions here, featuring thoughts on the frothy D2C space, AI slop and coding tools, browser games, premium titles and more: mobilegamer.biz/your-2026-pr...

Ten familiar mobilegamer.biz readers predict the big trends of 2026, including Roblox’s relentless rise, platform walls crumbling, genre hybrids, premium games, UA shifts and more: mobilegamer.biz/your-2026-pr...

What's the deal with Roblox brainrot and what can mobile game-makers learn from it? Our Roblox expert @pokachee.bsky.social explains the basics: mobilegamer.biz/everything-y...

We’ve refreshed our list of soft launch games to keep an eye on. Rust Mobile is now in beta, Tripledot and Supercent are testing new titles and EA seems to have given up on Plants Vs Zombies 3 (again): mobilegamer.biz/the-soft-lau...

Best of 2025: We obtained internal messages sent around within King as layoffs hit - and were told that some workers were effectively replaced by the AI tools they helped build: mobilegamer.biz/laid-off-kin...

Best of 2025: Capcom proved - twice - that porting old triple-A console games to mobile and asking $20+ does not work mobilegamer.biz/resident-evi...

Best of 2025: We were the first to report on AppLovin’s sale of all ten of its game studios for $900m – but who was the mysterious buyer…? mobilegamer.biz/applovin-is-...

Best of 2025: at GDC, Activision was refreshingly candid about how it launched Call of Duty: Mobile back in 2019: “I say this proudly – copy what works” mobilegamer.biz/gdc-2025-act...

Best of 2025: we got the scoop on what went down at Space Ape when it turned into Supercell London: mobilegamer.biz/rip-space-ap...

Best of 2025: Sources inside King told us what was going down at the Candy Crush maker as layoffs hit its London, Stockholm and Barcelona offices this summer. It sounds pretty rough: mobilegamer.biz/inside-king-...

Best of 2025: How much cash are celebs like LeBron and Shakira getting for those mobile game ads you see everywhere? It’s a lot, according to our sources: mobilegamer.biz/how-much-are...

Thanks to everyone who read or shared a story, came to an Off The Record event or listened to the podcast this year. More thoughts on how it’s all going at mobilegamer.biz here: mobilegamer.biz/mobilegamer-...