Why Summer Game Fest is a mobile-free zone, Supercell kills US projects, yet more Xbox chat, EA's mobile misstep, data, 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:

• 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, which has closed one game project and seems to have wound down another
• New Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball says that mobile is the biggest and most valuable part of the games business – but his first priority is the console business (the part with the least growth potential, he admits)
• EA’s Laura Miele on why fans were unhappy about Command & Conquer Rivals when it launched in 2018
• Metacore confirmed 159 jobs are going in Helsinki, and it’ll be closing its offices in Germany and Sweden
• Loads of data nuggets
• Ambient background sounds from both Grand Hope Park in downtown LA and our usual stomping ground in Hertfordshire, UK

#50, 11/06/26. Supported by Xsolla.