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What's going on in the mobile games business.
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Supercell buys Metacore amid brutal layoffs, Second Dinner cuts, inside Scopely x Niantic, April’s top games, data, jobs, more
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 wi...
Xbox's weird 'North Star', Sybo and Subway Surfers, App Store emulators, Peridot's death, soft launches, data, more
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 ne...
Apple's undercooked games efforts, Google's big AI claims, Ilkka's BAFTA speech plus data, jobs, new games and more
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 ch...
Is Destiny doomed?, King on AI, layoffs and workplace culture plus March's top games, data, soft launches and more
A concise inside view of the mobile game business.This week:– Is Destiny: Rising doomed? Players like the latest update, but it may not be enough– Thoughts on our King interview in which VP Eva Ryott addresses those layoffs...
Playtika for sale, data nuggets, Ilkka's BAFTA, Netflix Playground, game writers on mobile games, more
A concise inside view of the mobile game business.This week:– Playtika is effectively up for sale again, and is reportedly worth ~$3bn– Lots of data nuggets including Q1's top games and best performing markets (China, Singa...
