Mobile Gaming Today: 5
15-19 April Mobile Gaming Data Digest
Industry Highlights
Robin Guo: Billion-dollar Roguelike Game
Turkish Studio Mage Games Secured 3.5M$
Joao Batista: 10-Year Survive in Mobile Gaming
Italy’s Digital Nomad Visa: €28K a year is Enough
Shalom Michaeli: Challenges for Alternative App Stores
Ken Rudin: ARIA Framework for Product Optimization
Sergei Vasiuk: Live Service Games Are Industry-gold
Tracy Kennedy: Post-Layoff by Riot & Blizzard Devs
Mustafa Cetin: Difficult to Find Marketing Artists?
UK Games Market Grew 4.4% to £7.8bn in 2023
Spencer Ma: African Gaming Market Emerged
Kenyans’ Mobile Games Spend rises to 40M$
Mobile Marketing
Two & a half gamers: Travel Town scaled past $600K
Matej Lancaric: Sorry, but Supercell is Superdead
Katkoff: Facebook CPMs skyrocket due to TEMU
IronSource: Social Ad Networks Are Not Enough
Plarium: How the Players Created a New RAID
Slav Senkiv: Pricing Starterpacks – A/B Testing
Yasin Hatiboglu: 250 Days for A/B Winner?
Rovio kills Moomin: Puzzle & Design Game
Rise & Fall of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Anton Slashcev: Iterate, Pivot, or Kill?
Crunchyroll: $2B+ User Spending Mark
Yang Liu: Mini game review: AFK Journey
Neha Joshi: Phases in the Lifecycle of a Game
Bram Hallen: Meta Introduces Ads in Insta Reels
Claire Rozain: Secrets of Japan’s Royal Match Ads
Deconstruction of Legend of Mushroom
VC World
Jordan Mazer: A16z Launches Second $600m Games Fund
Seppo Helava: Gaming VC Funds – Dream or Nightmare?
Raphael van Lierop: A16z’s New Games-centric Funds
Burak Yilmaz: Updates from WePlay Ventures
Sara El Bachri: 124 Gaming VC Deals in Q1
Paul West: Fumb Games Took £150,000 Gov Investment
Dmitry Yaminsky: Mobile Gaming Investment Challenges
Dive into Istanbul’s VC Scene with Görkem Türk
AI Corner
Investors Get Seriously Skeptical About AI
VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces
Meta Unleashes Llama-3: Latest Open-Source LLM
