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Mobile Gaming Today: Beyond King & AppLovin

Ömer Yakabagi

Hei Fam,

I gave the newsletter a little makeover, waaay more fun now. Hope you love it 🤟🏻

Seen our latest GOAT Episode? 🐐

Week’s Game

🍭 King’s Candy Crush Solitaire » What Went Wrong?

🦄 More in 2.5 Gamers Pod


Gaming Investments

🤟🏻 $100M Fund for Mobile Gaming Studios: Welcome, Arcadia Gaming Advisors

🇫🇮 Finnish startup Seven Stars secures seed round to build Next-gen Puzzle Games

🇹🇷 Turkish Studio Surpass Games Secures $1.5M Pre-Seed from Laton Ventures

🇸🇦 Saudi Social Development Bank backs Esports & Game Dev with $122M

🧩 Hybridcasual Puzzle Rocks: Triple Tap Games secures $1.2M Investment

? 10 Questions That Reveal Investors’ True Colors

💰 More at InvestGame


Industry Highlights

AppLovin Scandal: New Target of Short Sellers?

💰 AppLovin Offloads Games: $500M Cash, $400M in Stock

🎲 Playtika on $450M in M&A, Skipping AppLovin Bid

⛵ Supercell teased their “Boat Game”

🌟 Brawl Stars: Supercell’s Billion-Dollar Success Story

🪦 RIP Space Ape Games: 70 join Supercell & 30 lay-off

» The Hidden Value of Subtle Design

📊 20 Key Mobile Game Metrics

🏗️ 3 Layers of Game Design

🎡 Lucky Wheel Guide


Mobile Marketing

» Mobile Ad Monetization: Türkiye

🚍 Bus Games in the charts?

⚡️ Playrix LiveOps Strategy

💰 Goods Puzzle Scaled Past $300K a Day

🇻🇳 Key Vietnamese Mobile Game Publishers

🔫 Call of Duty Mobile Hits $3B in User Spending


AI World

» Speedrunning Super Mario to Benchmark AI?

🐣 Claude AI is playing Pokemon on Twitch


Game Jobs

⚡️ Jobs of The Week ⚡️

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