Start your week with a Monday briefing of the most read articles from the global mobile games industry in the last seven days on PocketGamer.biz:
1) AppLovin offers to acquire Unity for $17.5 billion
Mobile advertising, marketing, and analytics company Applovin swept in with a bold offer for Unity, including a condition that the Ironsource merge does not conclude.
We brought together a lot of industry experts to weigh in on the Applovin, Ironsource and Unity conversation.
3) Jam City lays off 17% of staff
IP-adaptation mobile masters suddenly sunset San Diago staff.
4) Mobile games more profitable than console AND PC combined, reports Activision Blizzard
Activision-Blizzard’s quarterly report landed and it turned out that mobile was king.
5) PlayStation Mobile seeking to acquire mobile studios to help realise expansion goals
Sony is hiring a new director, with a view to assessing “potential merger and acquisition deals” and more, within the mobile space.
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These all-time, all-star stories are some of the most popular articles from our archives:
- The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch
- Mobile Game of the Week
- The mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales
- All Apple Arcade games available now
- The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021
