mobilegamer.biz digest
Mario Kart Tour, Minecraft Blast, Zynga + Supercell deal blocked, games on Instagram(...?), 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 brief history of Mario Kart Tour, which Nintendo killed this week after earning an estimated $270m King and Mojang have spruced up Minecraft Blast and quietly put it back into soft launch Zynga founder Mark Pincus has claimed that he had agreed to buy Supercell for $400m in 2012 – but the board blocked the deal Supercell has put its underperforming monster hunting game Mo co back into beta - meaning there will be relatively little brand new content added to the game until some “big changes” get made in the next update, coming later this year King averted those strikes at its Malmo and Stockholm offices right at the last minute by signing a deal with two Swedish unions Some chat about Meta’s Horizon Create app, which suggests the tech giant sees Instagram and Facebook as potential games platforms YouTube Playables – a range of YouTube-native webgames, essentially – are now live in over 50 countries. IAP monetisation is coming soon too, apparently, though YouTube is being very quiet about it all Gameloft is closing Minion Rush after a 13-year(!) run Tencent and Capcom’s Monster Hunter mobile game is coming October 29, pre-orders are live now Trophy Games bought Airlines Manager maker Playrion for what looks like a bargain $2.5m AI firm General Intuition, which trains its models on gameplay footage from sister firm Medal, got another monster funding round – $220m Your regular news nuggets from our soft launch, new games and data digests A passing ambulance making a right old racket #65, 01/10/26. Supported by Xsolla .
