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Today Scopely officially revealed that it has acquired Niantic’s games business, including Pokemon Go, Monster Hunter Now and Pikmin Bloom, for……

The mobile games industry is fast-paced and it’s easy to miss out on the big news.

To that end, we’ve put together a roundup of the big deals……

Former Netflix VP of games Mike Verdu has left the streaming firm after nearly four years.

The company has confirmed the news to PocketGamer.biz,……

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Developer Moon Studios is now back to being an independent entity.  The outfit revealed the news in its latest Wicked Inside event, where the company was sharing info about action RPG No Rest For the Wicked. Moon says that it has secured the publishing rights for the aforementioned title from Private Division, which Take-Two sold back in November 2024. Former Annapurna staff have been brough…

Back in 2023, two new Bandai Namco arcade games suddenly appeared on test; one was GoldStorm Pirates, the other was  Bike Dash Delivery. GoldStorm is about ready to release in the West, following showcases at trade shows like IAAPA and EAG, but their other piece has appeared much more sporadically, even out in Japan. After [&hellip

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Split Fiction hits 1m sales in 48 hours The latest co-op title from Hazelight, Split Fiction, has shifted over one million copies so far.  The studio revealed the news on BlueSky (and maybe Twitter, too, but that website has literally been broken all day so who knows), saying that it had hit this sales milestone within its first 48 hours on sale.  “The love you all show for our game is overwhelming,” Hazelight wrote.  “E…

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Report: Respawn cancels FPS project Developer Respawn Entertainment has reportedly axed an in-development multiplayer First-peron shooter.  Insider Gaming initially reported the news , citing a LinkedIn post from an ex-production coordinator at the studio, who said that the project they had been working on had been cancelled.  “The unannounced incubation project I was a part of for the past year was canceled this we…

Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts at AH curates stories from across worlds of arcade and pinball. As previously mentioned, late February offered quite the major news blitz, and that still hasn’t been letting up as we approach a few major events. Here are a number of smaller pieces that have built up around [&hellip

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PocketGamer.biz head of content Craig Chapple and news editor Aaron Astle discuss the latest mobile games industry news on the Week in Mobile……