Neil Long

People kept asking for a podcast, so here it is: every week I go on a walk and tell you what’s happening in the mobile games business: pod.link/1822126738

Update: Metacore has now confirmed that it'll close its offices in Germany and Sweden, and there will be 159 job cuts in Finland. The Supercell acquisition is still being finalised: mobilegamer.biz/supercell-to-f…

In new game digest this week: Game of Thrones, FIFA, Pokémon, Masters of the Universe, Talking Tom, Barbie, new titles from Noodlecake and Nuverse plus a load of games participating in the Green Game Jam: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-diges…

In the podcast this week: Supercell, King and Sybo slam EU plan, Atari buys Hipster Whale, Zynga's Mark Pincus on copycats and plenty more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sup…

Hit Nintendo Switch game Pokémon Champions is coming to iOS and Android on June 17: mobilegamer.biz/pokemon-champi…

The Liftoff IPO finally has lift-off: the adtech firm is today offering 19m shares for sale to the public at $23 each, a raise of $437m that values the firm at $3.83bn: mobilegamer.biz/liftoffs-437m-…

These proposals are...interesting - players would get a pop-up whenever they spend or buy virtual currency, a bit like how websites ask about cookies

Also this week: big Golf Rival and NetEase numbers, new games coming to China, Hoyoverse's big AI investment and an $8.5m raise for a new game engine

Update: The Apple Design Award winners include Is This Seat Taken?, Pine Hearts, Jinja's Garden and new-to-iOS Consume Me: mobilegamer.biz/inkle-devolver…

Mattel Game Studios’ debut is Masters of the Universe tie-in Skeletor: Until Next Time. It’s the first of two titles expected to launch this year from the toy giant’s new mobile game label: mobilegamer.biz/mattels-debut-…

“We need to get comfortable copying what already works (legally), so we can spend all our time and energy on the novel innovation that actually excites us and our users.”

Multi-award winning indie game Consume Me is now on iOS – it’s $9.99 and developer Jenny Jiao Hsio says the mobile edition is “the best way to play the game” mobilegamer.biz/multi-award-wi…

The Simpsons are taking over Monopoly Go: a new live ops and marketing blitz begins on June 3, and includes an animated short in which Will Ferrell's Mr. Monopoly faces off against Mr Burns: mobilegamer.biz/the-simpsons-a…

Our latest jobs digest has moves and promotions at Miniclip, Supercell, Scopely, Socialpoint, Ares, Tilting Point, Embracer, Ace Games, King and more: mobilegamer.biz/jobs-digest-mo…

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New Nintendo and PlayStation releases lead this week’s new game digest, which also includes Rust, Just Dance, UnGodly, Slime Rancher, a first glimpse of Supercell-backed Redly's debut and more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-diges…

Update: Hungry Studio has confirmed to us that Block Blast is back on Google’s Play Store after a short absence, but it did not offer a comment or explanation for its brief absence: mobilegamer.biz/block-blast-ha…

I asked both what's going on about two hours ago but nothing yet - will update if/when they do respond

Here's a fun listicle starring some of our original reporting that didn't get a big audience first time around

On the podcast this week: a quick digest of Take-Two, Ubisoft, Monopoly Go and SciPlay news plus data and soft launch nuggets: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mob…

In this week’s data digest we’ve got ‘Anime GTA’s debut, Tencent Games' $10bn quarter, Circana's US top grossing charts, SocialPeta's top mobile game ads and plenty more: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-an…