Supercell, King and Sybo slam EU plan, Atari buys Hipster Whale, Zynga's Mark Pincus on copycats, more

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 Europe”
• Atari bought Hipster Whale, its latest retro-adjacent acquisition
• Zynga founder Mark Pincus’ thoughts on the art of copying and mobile game design
• The Simpsons takes over Monopoly Go
• Multi-award-winning indie game Consume Me is now on iOS
• Apple has reveals its Design Award winners ahead of WWDC
• Mattel launched its debut firstparty game, Master of the Universe - Skeleton: Until Next Time
• A bit on the brief disappearance of Block Blast from the Play Store last week
• News nuggets from our jobs, new games and data digests
• Why I decided to run a 'best mobilegamer.biz stories you probably haven't read' listicle last Thursday
• Ambient sounds of birdsong, passing dogwalkers and slightly squelchier footsteps thanks to a post-heatwave downpour

#49, 04/06/26. Supported by Xsolla.