Mobile Gaming Today #110
Highlights of JUNE?
Keeping up the TEMPO hier ¯\(ツ)/¯
After lots of blood and tears, we finally released Türkiye’s Mobile Gaming Landscape 2026 Report!
no-BS stuff by Gamigion & AppMagic 🕺🏻
“In recent years, Türkiye 🇹🇷 became the world’s #1 mobile gaming market.”
“Unicornland’s 🦄 gaming ecosystem isn’t just growing; it’s bullish, fearless, and operating on another level.”
“Founders → Exits → Talent → Capital → Repeat.” 🤘🏻
“The AI-born generation will be different kind of founders: disciplined, product-focused, resilient, and globally minded.” 😶🌫️
Well…
Overall dynamics, the investments and M&A activity fueling the ecosystem, the trends shaped by major Turkish hits, and the future outlook over there.
50+ slides with actionable data, more than a dozen industry leaders participating, and tons of no-BS takeaways, just a click away for ya!
🦧 OK. What’s HOT?
💰 Liftoff Mobile Raises $437M in Nasdaq IPO, $3.8B Valuation
Back in February, Liftoff unexpectedly hit pause on its IPO plans.
Market volatility & AI-driven uncertainty delayed the IPO that was initially targeting up to a $5.2B valuation & $762M raise. So yeah, happening NOW!
🤘🏻 Atari into Mobile Gaming: Acquired Crossy Road Creator, Hipster Whale
Upfront payment of $29.3M, consisting of $26M in cash & $3.3M in Atari shares.
GL & HF ¯\(ツ)/¯
🔥 Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard deal got $250M more expensive!
Another major chapter in Microsoft’s $68.7B Activision Blizzard acquisition is finally coming to an end…
Microsoft agreed to pay $250M to settle a shareholder lawsuit tied to the deal.
😶🌫️ World’s Biggest Mobile Puzzle Game REMOVED from Google Play!
Hungry Studio’s Block Blast just disappeared for 24 hours.
DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act…
⚡️ Akin Babayigit & Makers Fund Launch New UA Financing Fund!
AMF Capital will be led by Andrew Seow, a former monetization director at Tripledot Studios and investor at Makers Fund. AMF will operate independently.
💸 Real-Money Games Explained: Ready to Win Big?
Key considerations for devs taking a chance on real-money games??
👉🏻 What Should Your ROAS Target Actually Be?
Sam Nam gotcha! Solid Data-Backed framework out there.
🤘🏻 AppsFlyer’s New Shot: Web Performance Measurement!
For only MOBILE GAMING? 👇🏻
Adam Smart gotcha! Check our concise Q&A...
“We’re moving toward a world where advertisers no longer need to switch between multiple tabs, dashboards, and fragmented systems just to triangulate performance.
🕺🏻 Casual Puzzles 2026: Past, Present & Future
Ahmetcan Demirel gotcha!
🦄 Marble Sort by Voodoo is making $1M a day!
$𝟭𝗠/𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗔𝗣 across the portfolio, Marble Sort alone at $250K/day…
😶🌫️ Match Villains is running ads for a game that does NOT exist!
Instead of dumping these fake-gameplay clicks onto the match-3 store page, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗮𝗽𝗽 “𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗘𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲! 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀” 🕵️ so that AD Mechanic now has a REAL game behind it! 😅
😶🌫️ 11M DAU with NO UA: One-man-game is making $30M!
Can be the best single game dev success story so far… 🤩
👑 Influencer Marketing Isn’t a Campaign. It’s a SYSTEM
& Here’s How to Build ONE…
Last??
JOBS-JOBS 🤟🏻
After all these LAYOFFS…
Doing our best for ya 🌿
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