mobilegamer.biz digest

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in about 20 minutes. In this episode: Thoughts on Google Playground, which also seems to be powered by Unity’s Spark tech. It may well flop completely or destroy game development as we know it...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: A brief history of Mario Kart Tour, which Nintendo killed this week after earning an estimated $270m King and Mojang have spruced up Minecraft Blast and q...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: Vita Mahjong, Amaze Go and Meowdoku maker Oakever Games has already lost one copyright infringement case against Block Blast maker Hungry Studio, and is n...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: Some thoughts and speculation on that potential Saudi-owned gaming supergroup including EA, Scopely, Moonton and more More right-wing weirdos are making g...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In another Apple-heavy episode: A brisk look at the games being shown off on Apple’s new foldable, iPhone Duo News from Lego’s lowkey mobile gaming arm, which has swooped...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this unusually Apple-heavy episode: A run-through of the App Store team’s tips and tricks on getting featured. They also pushed the ‘try before you buy’ model for premi...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: A pretty loose summary of what’s big on Gamescom's show floor and in the opening night live showcase (it’s mostly games coming out of China, Korea an...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: An attempt to explain Apple’s new EU App Store terms in a concise way, plus suitably entertaining commentary from BFFs Epic Games Supercell’s Mo Co is get...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: Some slightly kinder words about Rovio from parent company Sega after a brutal verdict in its last financials Tripledot’s $40m acquisition of Supersonic f...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: That huge EA/Saudi deal and what it might mean for EA’s mobile business, plus some very large payouts for the execs now the transaction is complete A run...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: A close look at those fascinating top 10 downloads and top 10 grossing games of 2026 so far lists, based on AppMagic estimates A ramble though a popular s...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: Playtika’s slightly odd potential sale of SuperPlay to Tencent More Google Play shenanigans: it’s now easier to run and operate a third party store, large...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: More sources suggest King has so far dodged having to make layoffs in the big Xbox reset Now that Destiny 2 is no longer being supported with new content,...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: Those huge Xbox cuts and some loose talk about King's new place in the hierarchy at Microsoft  Meta’s new ‘TikTok for games’ app, Pocket, has sneakil...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: We look at Konami’s quietly very successful mobile game eFootball, which is actually making about three times the IAP of its closest competitor EA FC. But...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: Google (re)confirms that it’ll be dropping store fees by around 5% for most folks using the Play Store. Though there are caveats and complications, of cou...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: We run through two stories about football drafting games 38-0 and 38-0-0, each made by amateur developers using AI tools to jump on a trend and quickly la...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: A bit of a ramble from Summer Game Fest in LA, which had barely any mobile games in it. And actually that makes a lot of sense News from Supercell US, whi...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: Ilkka Paananen, Todd Green and Mathias Gredal Nørvig have criticised incoming EU proposals that they believe could make free to play games “unplayable in...

The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: We rattle through Take-Two’s financials, which as ever show mobile earning roughly half the company’s cash with earnings from Zynga, Peak, Nordeus, Rollic...

A concise inside view of the mobile game business. This week: Is it the last roll of the dice for Supercell’s monster hunting game Mo.co …? It was rebooted after struggling to get much traction, and is earning way less than Squad Busters did before that was killed Fortnite is back on the iOS App Store worldwide (minus Australia), and so of course Epic took a couple of swings at Apple as part of th...

A concise inside view of the mobile game business. This week: – A look at the grim Rovio news from Sega’s latest financial report, including a clarification over their translation of restructure/rebuild – Playtika’s transition into a casual game maker is complete, according to its latest earnings report, and social casino is yesterday’s news at the Israeli firm apparently  – Unity also put out its...

A concise inside view of the mobile game business. This week: – Metacore is to cut up to 160 staff and refocus purely on Merge Mansion as it becomes part of Supercell, which has bought it out and will absorb it fully, like it did with Space Ape – News of 16 staff cut at Marvel Snap maker Second Dinner, though we're told the second game is not affected – An overview of a fascinating fireside c...

A concise inside view of the mobile game business. This week: – A look at what the various statements coming out of Xbox in the last week mean for its vast mobile business, which was barely mentioned at all despite the platform's new 'North Star' being daily active players – Highlights from a chat with Sybo boss Mathias in which I asked about that long-rumoured Subway Surfers movie,...

A concise inside view of the mobile game business. This week: – Probably too many thoughts on Apple's role in, and contribution to, the games business during the 15 years Tim Cook has been in charge – An overview of our GDC chat with Google Cloud games boss Jack Buser, in which he claimed that practically all major game studios are using AI in game development but they appear to be hiding it...