Awards are for losers

In this week’s data digest: Jam City’s $1.6m fine, November’s top games, big numbers and milestones for Little Farm Story, Budge, Rush Royale, Huuuge, Unico, more: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...

TikTok seems to be serving more mobile game ads than ever – so how are games like Kingshot, Palmon Survival, X-Clash and All In Hole trying to hook us in? With AI slop, Pokémon torture, innuendo, brainrot, giant zombies and more: mobilegamer.biz/whats-hot-in...

If this goes through i'd wager a handful of Warner owned and licensed mobile games survive, if that

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Red Dead Redemption is $39.99(!) as a standalone premium game

In this week’s podcast: Digital Chocolate’s diaspora, Destiny: Rising woes, EA’s shooter revival, November’s top games, more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

LastWar, Roblox and Monopoly Go lead the way in Appmagic's top grossing chart for November after Honor of Kings’ dramatic drop, while Kingshot, Gossip Harbor and Delta Force cement their spots in the top ten: mobilegamer.biz/novembers-to...

In November’s top downloads chart from Appmagic, Block Blast is on top again, Roblox drops and there are two surprise new entries - plus that baffling X-Clash game - in the top ten: mobilegamer.biz/novembers-to...

In this week’s data digest: - Valorant, Honor of Kings, Clash Royale star in Tencent earnings - A peek at Google Play revenue in Europe and MENA - Sensor Tower’s top downloads and earners for October - A very in-depth look at IAP and genre revenue - More: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...

Is EA taking another shot at Apex Legends and Battlefield on mobile? Probably: it is hiring a ‘head of mobile shooters’ that’ll report into Respawn and Battlefield GM Vince Zampella: mobilegamer.biz/is-ea-taking...

UK studio Magicave has struck a deal to publish puzzles from its Mindset Go mobile game in The Observer every Sunday: mobilegamer.biz/venn-diagram...

Digital Chocolate is quietly one of the most influential mobile game companies ever

More thoughts from the Destiny frontlines courtesy of @rygilliam.bsky.social

Our latest jobs digest has moves and promotions at Metacore, Hutch, Everplay, Nordeus, Ace High Sports, Ludia, Funday and Raptor: mobilegamer.biz/jobs-digest-...

In this week’s new game digest: Vampire Crawlers, Arknights, Netflix Puzzled, Sega’s F2P football manager game, NERF: Superblast closes, Tripledot and Supercent soft launches and more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-dig...

Every week I go for a walk and tell you what's going on in the mobile games business in under 20 minutes. In this week's podcast: App Review woes, GTA leaves Netflix, Türkiye's hot streak, iconic icons, Zombies Run, more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

GTA: San Andreas is one of 13 titles set to leave Netflix soon as its big games reboot continues: mobilegamer.biz/netflix-game...

In this week’s data digest: - Royal Match beats Candy Crush (again) - Monopoly Go tops US earners - Vita Mahjong is (still) the top ad spender - Disney Magic Match 3D so far - Further Ubisoft shenanigans - More: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...

Getting your app icon right is incredibly important - here, we ask three experts for their best practices to help make your game icon iconic: mobilegamer.biz/how-to-make-...

Why is Türkiye mobile gaming’s heartbeat right now? Relentless, results-driven workers, highly competitive founders and huge financial backing from both the government and local investors: mobilegamer.biz/the-secret-o...

Bestselling author Naomi Alderman has bought back the games she cocreated, Zombies Run and The Walk, for a ‘high six-figure sum’, we’re told: mobilegamer.biz/author-naomi...

“Apple can accuse you of fraud, shut down your account, keep your money, and never tell you why”

In our latest soft launch update: a Match Factory follow-up(?), Moon Active pulls its tile-matching puzzler plus more betas from EA, Playrix, Rovio, Supercell and more: mobilegamer.biz/the-soft-lau...

In this week’s new game digest: Ubisoft dates The Division and Rainbow 6 (sort of), Supercent’s match 3-meets-Monopoly Go game, Cosy Coast, Resident Evil, Plants vs Zombies, The Sims, more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-dig...

Yesterday at Off The Record London, we hosted another great gathering of mobile games industry minds thanks to Miniclip and Xsolla. Photo highlights here: mobilegamer.biz/off-the-reco...

In this week’s podcast: that Unity-Epic deal and the Bromberg-Sweeney alliance, Minecraft Blast, Netflix Games 2.0, Duolingo, Ubisoft, EA, Stash, data nuggets, jobs news and more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

In data digest this week: - Match Villains, Clash Royale and party game numbers - October’s top performing games - Nexon, MTG, Embracer, Ten Square numbers - More: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...

Bromberg 🤝 Sweeney

Duolingo is on the hunt for more acquihires after swooping for the NextBeat team – it wants to snap up devs “with experience building delightful, moment-to-moment gameplay on mobile,” says Simon Hade: mobilegamer.biz/duolingo-see...

Stash has acquired Galleon, the Israeli team behind native D2C payments in Playtika-owned SuperPlay’s games: mobilegamer.biz/stash-acquir...

EA has quietly soft launched new versions of Plants vs Zombies 3 and The Sims as that $55bn Saudi-led buyout looms: mobilegamer.biz/ea-resurrect...

Scopely snaps up a Supercell veteran and Monopoly Go has a new senior PM in our latest jobs digest. Plus: moves at Unity, Supercell, Roblox, Playtika, Netflix and more: mobilegamer.biz/jobs-digest-...

This week’s stacked new game digest includes Minecraft Blast, Ratchet & Clank, Horizon, Resident Evil, SpongeBob, Red Dead, Maneater, Subway Surfers, Total War, Deep Rock Galactic and more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-dig...

Netflix Games' big reboot is being led by Red Dead Redemption, WWE 2K25, Netflix Puzzled and an array of kids and party games playable on-device and on TV: mobilegamer.biz/red-dead-red...

On this week’s podcast: Epic-Google shenanigans, EA payouts, Squad Busters, Take-Two, Playtika, Rainbow 6, Horizon mobile, more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

King and Mojang have quietly soft launched a new puzzler, Minecraft Blast: mobilegamer.biz/king-and-moj...

Supercell has voiced further regret that Squad Busters wasn’t “ready for primetime” at launch – and explained why it is closing the game down rather than keeping it going with fewer updates: mobilegamer.biz/why-not-just...

That long-rumoured Horizon MMO has finally been confirmed – it’s a mobile game in development at NCsoft: mobilegamer.biz/that-long-ru...

In this week’s data digest: - Nintendo’s mobile arm hits 950m downloads - AppLovin, Unity, Take-Two, Playtika, Krafton, Square earnings - Stats on ad spend, genre split and platform revenue - More: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...

EA boss Andrew Wilson could cash out over $100m in shares from that $55bn Saudi buyout, SEC filings reveal. Four more execs also stand to make tens of millions once the deal is complete: mobilegamer.biz/ea-boss-andr...

Rainbow Six Mobile is launching worldwide soon, after six and a half years in development. 11 Ubisoft studios – and Tencent – have contributed to the project: mobilegamer.biz/six-and-a-ha...

The US judge overseeing Epic vs Google doesn't seem happy about the settlement reached between the two companies last week. He reportedly said the proposals don’t go far enough, and he wants another hearing: mobilegamer.biz/that-epic-go...

In our latest soft launch update: Supercell’s Boat Game, Hill Climb Racing 3, Supercent’s take on Whiteout Survival, two new Angry Birds games and betas from Playrix, Zynga, Tripledot and more: mobilegamer.biz/the-soft-lau...

In this week’s new game digest: Palworld, Sonic Rumble, Boat Game, MapleStory, Arknights, Nintendo’s new store app, a romantasy game from some former Choices devs and more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-dig...

You may have also noticed they delayed GTA 6 too

In this week’s podcast: that Epic-Google deal, Supercell’s mo.co revamp, Sandsoft, October’s top games, data and jobs news, a plug for Off The Record London and a thrilling discovery at Porto airport: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Playtika said it has a new Disney tie-in coming and that Disney Solitaire is on course to earn $200m annually in its latest earnings report. It also posted YoY rises in revenue and direct-to-consumer income: mobilegamer.biz/new-disney-t...

"Circumstances beyond our control forced the company to make an emergency landing and cease operations"

Epic 🤝 Google