Neil Long

Neil is the founder and editor of mobilegamer.biz, which specialises in exclusive news, interviews and insights for the mobile games business. He has worked in media for nearly 20 years and has served as editor at MCV, Official Nintendo Magazine, Edge Online and Apple's App Store.

“What players don’t realise is that their favourite games right now were already built with AI”

By Neil Long

Google Cloud’s games boss Jack Buser says practically every top studio is using AI to develop games more quickly, and for less. But there’s still a lot of concern around telling players about it.

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Tim Cook oversaw one of gaming’s biggest platforms for 15 years but didn’t seem to notice

By Neil Long

Will incoming Apple CEO John Ternus give a little more love to games on the App Store? Probably – it’s hard to imagine him being more dismissive of games than outgoing boss Tim Cook.

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Supercell boss Ilkka Paananen’s BAFTA Fellowship is ‘for the entire mobile games industry’

By Neil Long

He was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship on Friday in honour of his work as Supercell boss plus his contributions to the games industry as an investor, mentor and philanthropist.

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