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Week in Mobile Games E61 - Zynga's successes and failures, and Moon Active takes the fight to Scopely


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PocketGamer.biz head of content Craig Chapple and news editor Aaron Astle discuss the latest games industry news on the 61st episode of the Week in Mobile Games Podcast.

On this weekโ€™s show we cover:

  • How Rollic scored a $100m hybridcasual hit by ideating 1,000 games a month.
  • Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau's interview with The Game Business discussing Star Wars Hunters, direct-to-consumer, triple-A and game difficult.
  • The new 4X strategy game titans Whiteout Survival and Last War: Survival.
  • Moon Active's soft launch of the Monopoly Go-like Coin Master - Board Adventure.
  • How Tencent is adapting Age of Empires to mobile again.
  • Savvy Games Group-owned Steer Studios' decision to temporarily take Grunt Rush offline.

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