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

Is Microsoft thinking about turning Minecraft free to play…? Have asked for comment

In this week’s data digest we’ve got the need-to-know numbers from EA, Roblox, Stillfront, MTG and Krafton’s financials, funding news, March market stats and Mistplay's latest acquisition: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-ea…

Update: Second Dinner has confirmed to us that 16 staff have been let go

Metacore is restructuring, and aims to make up to 160 job cuts – over half its workforce. Supercell will also buy out the rest of the company, taking on Merge Mansion in the process: mobilegamer.biz/supercell-to-f…

A “relatively small number” of staff have been cut at Marvel Snap maker Second Dinner, we're told. Work continues on its second game, and boss Ben Brode says this is "not a sign that we're winding down” mobilegamer.biz/layoffs-at-mar…

Netflix is still hiring big talent...they just got Fortnite's design director (who appeared to be hit by the big round of Epic layoffs)

In this week’s new game digest: Fortnite and Rocket League drop into Japan, a new Walking Dead game, Guild Wars comes to mobile, Monster Hunter Outlanders edges closer to launch and plenty more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-diges…

Scopely’s Tim O’Brien and Niantic’s Ed Wu chronicle the seven-day weeks, late nights and knotty technical problems on the road to that blockbuster $3.5bn acquisition: mobilegamer.biz/scopely-and-ni…

For the podcast every week, I go for a walk and explain what’s going on in the mobile game business in under 20 minutes. This week: Xbox, Sybo, emulators, Peridot and more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/xbo…

The App Store’s top emulators have racked up around 60m installs since Apple allowed them on its storefront two years ago, say estimates. But one app maker, like many others, would love to see Apple modernise and expand App Store developer support: mobilegamer.biz/emulation-arri…

In another busy data digest we’ve got that Skillz-Papaya drama, PlaySimple's IPO, US and India market stats, Delta Force numbers, the latest ad charts, Stillfront figures and more fresh funding news: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-sk…

Following on from those hit Mario, Sonic and Minecraft movies, Sybo is still trying to find the right way to do a Subway Surfers movie. In the meantime, Subway Surfers City is off to a solid start, and another spin-off has quietly entered soft launch: mobilegamer.biz/that-rumoured-…

There are all sorts of contradictions in the latest bit of Xbox talk and last week made it all even more muddled

In our latest soft launch games update Moon Active and Rollic are testing contenders to Pixel Flow, hybridcasual specialist Supercent targets merge and there’s plenty more from Playrix, Rovio, Zynga and more: mobilegamer.biz/the-soft-launc…

In this week’s new game digest there’s a Monopoly-branded match 3 game, Habby’s Dicero goes global, Remedy ports Control to iOS, Honor of Kings World hits China and plenty more: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-diges…

Niantic is closing its virtual pet game Peridot, three years after launch. Estimates suggest it struggled, earning under $3m in lifetime IAP revenue, and it was one of the projects Scopely didn't acquire in that huge $3.5bn deal last year: mobilegamer.biz/niantic-is-clo…

On the podcast this week: thoughts on Apple's undercooked games efforts, Google's big AI claims, Ilkka's BAFTA speech plus data, jobs, new games and more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/app…

The presumed-dead Xbox mobile game store might be resurrected under the leadership of new Microsoft Gaming boss Asha Sharma, if her X posts are to be believed. Tim Sweeney approves, of course: mobilegamer.biz/the-xbox-mobil…

This is interesting because I think a lot of AI use goes undisclosed and is used for quite boring, sensible things but game studios are terrified of admitting even that

In this week’s data digest there’s a flurry of funding news, a list of the fastest-growing franchises, milestones for Tasty Travels, Tiles Survive and War Robots plus UK market data and more: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-a-…