Begin your week with a Monday briefing of essentially the most learn articles from the worldwide cellular video games trade within the final seven days on PocketGamer.biz:
1) AppLovin presents to accumulate Unity for $17.5 billion
Cellular promoting, advertising, and analytics firm Applovin swept in with a daring supply for Unity, together with a situation that the Ironsource merge doesn’t conclude.
2) Ought to Unity be a part of AppLovin, purchase IronSource or simply keep as they’re? The cellular trade weighs in!
We introduced collectively lots of trade consultants to weigh in on the Applovin, Ironsource and Unity dialog.
3) Jam Metropolis lays off 17% of employees
IP-adaptation cellular masters immediately sundown San Diago employees.
4) Cellular video games extra worthwhile than console AND PC mixed, studies Activision Blizzard
Activision-Blizzard’s quarterly report landed and it turned out that cellular was king.
5) PlayStation Cellular looking for to accumulate cellular studios to assist realise enlargement targets
Sony is hiring a brand new director, with a view to assessing “potential merger and acquisition offers” and extra, inside the cellular area.
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These all-time, all-star tales are a number of the hottest articles from our archives:
- The most recent and most fascinating cellular video games in comfortable launch
- Cellular Sport of the Week
- The cellular video games which have made greater than $1 billion in lifetime gross sales
- All Apple Arcade video games accessible now
- The High 50 Cellular Sport Makers of 2021
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