We’ve also got new titles from Tencent, FunPlus, Plug In Digital and more in this week’s round-up.

The disability charity’s flagship campaign launches with a slate of publishers donating a cut of IAP and DLC revenue.

Devolver and Nerial have jointly decided to end development at the studio, meaning around eight staff are seeking new roles.

The EU-backed CPC Network has launched coordinated enforcement action against 11 games companies, but VGE and the EGDF have pushed back.

AppLovin wants a court to block Unity from collecting data via its free Ad Quality tool.

Podcast Episode · mobilegamer.biz digest · 30 September · 20min

King and Mojang’s mobile puzzle spin-off is currently downloadable in Malaysia on Google Play only.

AppMagic estimates suggest Nintendo’s mobile racer earned an estimated $268.5m from over 276m installs since launch in September 2019.

We’ve also got fresh numbers on Brawl Stars, Colony Flow, Mystery Dumpling, Hunting Rivals, Bleach Mirrors High and more in this week’s round-up.

The funding values General Intuition at nearly triple its January valuation.

“We had the chance to build the biggest game company in the world.”

The mobile spin-off arrives almost two years after it was announced.

The Airlines Manager and Airport Simulator: First Class studio joins Trophy Games as the company raises its full-year revenue guidance.

The game will be withdrawn from stores on October 30, and servers shut down on January 29, 2027.

Take a peek at the games in testing from the mobile games industry’s top publishers.

We’ve also got Meta’s game creation app, a new title from Popcore, Sanrio’s debut mobile game and more in this week’s round-up.

The tech giant announced its new Create app and Studio toolset at Meta Connect this week, though there was no firm date on when they might arrive.

Tomorrow’s planned strike action at the Candy Crush maker’s Stockholm and Malmo offices have now been called off.

Supercell will “keep iterating and testing out new features” while the game is in “low maintenance” mode.

IAPs could be coming to these instant-play webgames next year, says a Google staffer.

Podcast Episode · mobilegamer.biz digest · 23 September · 18min

Estimates suggest OneState has made over $85m to date, and is currently pullig in over $5m per month. With GTA 6 looming, we spoke to its creator, US studio ChillBase.

We’ve also got news from Embracer and Top App Games in this week’s round up.

Scopely’s Monster Mash season runs September 23 to November 25.

The Candy Crush maker’s remit has expanded and will now take in Microsoft Casual Games.

A load of classic Atari games like Pong, Breakout, Centipede and Missile Command could soon be revived or reimagined on mobile, says Hipster Whale cofounder Matt Hall.

It has already lost one copyright infringement case against Block Blast maker Hungry Studio, and is currently fighting another brought by Avia Games. Industry chatter alleges that’s the tip o…

There’s also recruitment news from Tripledot, Trailmix, FreePlay, Cypher and Arcade in our latest roundup.

There’s also new release news from Playdigious, NC, Koei Tecmo and Critical Leap this week.

The European Commission has proposed a series of restrictions aimed at games companies and social media firms, but Video Games Europe has warned against some of the measures and called for further …

The cult visual novel will drop on Epic’s mobile storefront later today, we understand. Google removed it from the Play Store over its depiction of sensitive themes earlier this year.

Brawl Stars fighter Spike and the language learning app’s mascot Duo have beef, apparently, and will be appearing across both apps for the rest of the month.

Podcast Episode · mobilegamer.biz digest · 16 September · 19min

We’ve also got Pocket Worlds buying Hotel Hideaway, StoryToys stats and a milestone for Playkot in this week’a round up.

After launching Lumines Remastered this summer, the revered game designer says he could bring more of his games to mobile soon – and says mobile players are increasingly open to premium-style games…

Sveriges Ingenjörer and Unionen say strike action could begin September 25 if King won’t budge.

The owner of Uno, Barbie and many more bought out NetEase’s stake in Mattel163 and now has ambitions of its own as Mattel Game Studios, says COO Devin Nambiar.

Take a peek at the games in testing from the mobile games industry’s top publishers.

Announcements at RDC 2026 also cover offline play, web instant-play, 2D game support and new creator payment tools.

There’s also a closed beta launch from AI-first studio Atelico, plus soft launches and releases from Playdigious, Supersonic, Popcore and Rollic.

A merger would bring together the makers of Pokémon Go, Monopoly Go, EA FC, Madden, The Sims and Apex Legends – but only once Savvy seals its $6bn Moonton acquisition.

mobilegamer.biz digest · Episode

The amount you can expect Apple or Google to take from each IAP is getting and more complicated. So we made a commission calculator with Claude that’s designed to make it a bit clearer for yo…

Apple partnered with Genshin Impact maker Hoyoverse and US startup Azra to demo the first games running on its new foldable iPhone Duo.

Coalition for App Fairness and 17 other groups say Apple’s 15% steering fee “is not zero”.

There’s also a $12m funding round for Burlingame Studios and some Roblox research in this week’s round-up.

Gossip Harbor was second only to Honor of Kings in AppMagic’s top grossing estimates for August, which saw the entire top five games each earned over $100m in IAP revenue last month.

Tencent’s GTA-like open world game Gangstar Mirage City has fired its way into the top ten despite only having launched in some regions in AppMagic’s latest numbers.