Mobile Gaming Today #111
Highlights of the week ¯\(ツ)/¯
What’s NEW? ¯\(ツ)/¯
Before ALL,
One more shoutout for our Report 👇🏻
🇹🇷 Türkiye’s Mobile Gaming Landscape 2026
More?
Just released our Drop Away 100-LV Deconstruction!
🦧 OK. What’s HOT?
🔪 App Store Graveyard: Apple’s Purge Begins
They don’t want to be a hotel anymore. For??
Apps that aren’t updated, improved, or attracting users…
🚘 Spektra Games Secures Investment from APY Ventures
For the global growth of Highway Racer Pro, currently the most downloaded racing game on the U.S. App Store!
💰 Two Desperados Secured $20M UA Funding from PvX!
Yep, and they are the largest independent mobile gaming studio in Southeastern Europe based in Belgrade.
😐 159 Layoffs by Metacore, Closing Germany & Sweden Offices
Uff… ¯\(ツ)/¯
👀 Block Blast Lost 6.3M DAU After Google Play Take-Down!
My estimate puts the loss at $120k/day in ad revenue…
🐤 Rovio’s New Casual Match-3: Angry Birds MATCH
Yep, you’re right. Casual Match-3 Puzzle out there 🧩
🇹🇷 Top Gaming VCs in Türkiye: Story of e2vc
one of Türkiye’s leading VCs with a portfolio of ~$20B, backing 5 unicorns including Loom Games, fal.ai, Carbon Health, Insider & BillionToOne.
🤘🏻 AppsFlyer’s New Shot: Web Performance Measurement!
For Mobile Gaming??
“We’re moving toward a world where advertisers no longer need to switch between multiple tabs, dashboards, and fragmented systems just to triangulate performance.
🇫🇮 Finnish ecosystem is fading away quietly…
The first step to fixing something is saying it out loud!
🐣 Block Out by Grand Games is scaling to over $𝟯𝟬𝟬𝗞 a 𝗱𝗮𝘆!
It’s an iteration of a 2024 game, and it’s now out-performing the original!
⚡️ Mobile Game CPIs increase around 15% every year.
Consequences for incumbents and challengers?
🦄 Influencer Marketing is cheaper than you think!
Well, $70 CPI on Influencer marketing for Merge games is NOT the real number.
✈️ Non-gaming is bigger than Mobile Gaming, growing faster.
Should we move to building Apps?
🇻🇳 5 Billion Game Downloads Later: Vietnam Game Connect?
Yep, world’s #2 market for game installs. 9,300 downloads every minute!
Last??
JOBS-JOBS 🤟🏻
After all these LAYOFFS…
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