Neil Long

Scopely and Niantic on getting that seismic $3.5bn megadeal over the line

Scopely chief revenue officer Tim O’Brien and Niantic president Ed Wu chronicle the late nights and knotty technical problems they encountered on the road to that blockbuster $3.5bn acquisition.

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On the podcast: Xbox’s weird ‘North Star’, Sybo and Subway Surfers, App Store emulators, Peridot, more

By Neil Long

This week’s inside view of the mobile game business.

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That rumoured Subway Surfers movie is still in the pipeline, sort of – and so are more spin-off games

By Neil Long

CEO Mathias Gredal Nørvig says Sybo is still trying to find the right format for a big screen adaptation of ‘the most downloaded game of all time’, Subway Surfers. In the meantime, Subway Surfers City is off to a solid start and there’s another spin-off that’s quietly entered soft launch.

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