Data digest: Sensor Tower’s H1 analysis, Hay Day’s comeback, July’s top games, big Krafton numbers and more

There’s also a sudden surge of mobile games approved for release in China in this week’s round-up.

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EA’s $55bn sale to Saudi-led consortium is officially complete

The company’s stock has ceased trading and has been delisted from NASDAQ.

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GTA has made over $100m on mobile – and now Tencent, Garena and more are moving onto Rockstar’s turf

A look at how GTA-inspired mobile games like Nevernes to Everness, One State, Gangstar and more stack up against Rockstar’s own catalogue.

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A retired tennis pro built and launched Tennis Tycoon entirely with Claude Code

He’s the latest amateur coder hoping to score a hit on the App Store with a Claude-made passion project.

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Garena’s Palworld Online is a mobile MMO based on Pocketpair’s hit survival game

The game is set to launch on iOS and Android later this year.

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Roblox says new ‘Slim’ tech will let complex avatars run on low-end Android as it pushes mobile-first game creation

“Everything from 2D puzzle games to complex 3D multiplayer games are going to be created on mobile, enhanced in Roblox Studio.”

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The soft launch games you need to know about from EA, Tencent, Moon Active, Take-Two and more

Take a peek at the games in testing from the mobile games industry’s top publishers.

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New game digest: Lumines, Fortnite, Rust, Honor of Kings, Transformers, Plants Vs Zombies 3, a Moon Active soft launch and more

We’ve also got new games from Devolver, Netflix, Ten Square, Kakao and more in this week’s round-up.

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Apple hits back at UK regulator’s attempt to open up the App Store

It’s currently pretty difficult for UK developers to outside payment options. The UK’s regulator wants that changed, and Apple wants it stopped.

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2026's top games so far, Raid's new rival, plus nuggets from Google, Ubisoft, Stillfront, Devolver, Scopely and more

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Looney Tunes follows The Simpsons as the next big IP to take over Monopoly Go

Bugs, Daffy, Road Runner and pals star in the new Happy Harvest takeover which runs from today, July 29, to September 23.

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Drilo Ventures reveals $30m fund for ‘Türkiye’s second wave of gaming founders’

Former Apy ventures fund manager Doğukan Çetin and Swipeline founder Umut Yaka want to back Turkish founders and will complete their first deal in October: “Our goal is to build the biggest VC bran…

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Data digest: Skillz vs Papaya verdict, H1’s top casual games plus Capcom, Candy Crush, Ludus, Embrace and Neon news

We’ve also got some June numbers from Circana in this week’s stats round-up.

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2026’s top 10 grossing mobile games (so far): Honor of Kings, Whiteout Survival, LastWar, Royal Match, more

Honor of Kings is way ahead and has passed the $1bn mark for the year already, while new(ish) contenders Gossip Harbor and Kingshot cement their spots in the top ten.

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2026’s top 10 mobile game downloads (so far): Free Fire Max, Block Blast, Roblox, Arrows, more

Garena’s battle royale has shot past Hungry Studio’s puzzler for the first half of 2026 by downloads as two Arrows games arrive in the top ten.

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A Raid: Shadow Legends superfan is taking on Plarium with his own squad RPG

Simon Lockerby has gone from making YouTube videos about Raid: Shadow Legends to directly competing with his favourite game by making a squad RPG of his own, Godforge.

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CEO search continues at Stillfront as revenue holds steady, key franchises grow 10%

The roll-up firm posted a second straight quarter of double-digit growth for its key franchises, but there’s still no word on who’ll run the company.

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Jobs digest: moves and promotions at Scopely, Lil Snack, Playdemic, Cypher Games and more

There’s also job news at Qwacks and Nordeus in our latest round-up.

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Invincible: Guarding the Globe drives rising mobile revenue share at Ubisoft

Mobile’s share of total group net bookings rose to 19%, up from 10% in the same period year-over-year after Invincible: Guarding the Globe delivered a record quarter.

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New game digest: Don’t Starve, DCKO, Toca Boca, Poinpy, Gangstar and more

There’s also new soft launches from Tencent, Take-Two-owned Popcore and Supercent in this week’s round up.

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Google hit with $1bn EU fine for Play Store and search shenanigans

Google has 60 days to comply, after which it risks “periodic penalty payments of up to 5% of its total worldwide turnover”.

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Tencent, Playtika and SuperPlay shenanigans, further Google Play changes, Monopoly Go, MTG, DCKO, more

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Devolver has rereleased former Netflix exclusive Poinpy for free

The game is free to download and has no microtransactions or ads, but players can ‘tip’ creator Ojiro Fumoto with IAP if they want to.

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Mighty Doom dev Alpha Dog is back as an independent studio

It was closed by Microsoft in 2024 but founder Shawn Woods has resurrected the outfit, which is now open to opportunities.

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Data digest: Meowdoku and Learnings’ sudden rise, Honor of Kings, Disney Emoji Blitz, Netflix Playground, more

There’s also a load of new investment and M&A data from Drake Star in this week’s round-up.

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Monopoly Go earns Hasbro $44m as its games business grows 17%

That’s up slightly on the $41m Hasbro earned from Scopely’s hit game in the prior quarter.

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Raid: Shadow Legends, casual arm PlaySimple and web store revenue drive rising MTG profits

Direct to consumer revenue accounted for 38% of the group’s revenue in Q2, and UA spend was up 10%, representing 39% of revenue.

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Unity 7 is coming Q1 2027

A beta arrives in December, with a full release targeted for Q1 2027.

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Former Kabam devs Drop Fake reveal new DC Universe fighting game DCKO

DCKO is expected to release for iOS and Android devices in 2027.

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Tencent could acquire Playtika-owned SuperPlay for up to $1.5bn, says report

With SuperPlay outperforming expectations, Playtika is caught in expensive earnouts

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