The End of App Stores 👀

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In today’s newsletter: 10 industry veterans predict mobile games and the end of the App Store, Devil May Cry launches, and one of the highest-rated roguelikes on MiniReview is on sale.

🎮 Top Story: Industry Veterans Predict the End of App Stores as We Know Them

Can you feel it? The fresh air, the hope, the optimism. Ahhh, nothing beats that “new year, new me” feeling. And yesterday, ten industry experts shared their predictions for how mobile gaming will change in 2024.

The highlights:

• The app stores as we know them will come to an end thanks to Roblox, Netflix, and Epic Games all building their own stores and discovery platforms

• 2024's "game of the year" will be a Supercell game we don’t know of

• We'll see a new indie boom fueled by 2023’s tens of thousands of lay-offs at large game studios

For us gamers, that sounds pretty great! So here’s to an awesome 2024 🥂

📢 Mobile Gaming News

The latest mobile gaming news from around the block web.

• Puzzle platformer “Ugly” gets ported to mobile on January 23rd

• Furry Battlefield is an upcoming battle royale coming to Mobile and PC

• Wyrmspan is a new Wingspan-inspired board game about dragons that might get a digital adaptation

• Plants Warfare is a mix of Match-3, Tower Defense, and Roguelike coming to mobile on January 31st

• Eggy Party soft-launches in more regions, with a map creation contest underway

🔥 Fresh Reviews

So, we played some games… and now we just can’t shut up about them on MiniReview.

🚀 New releases

Watch out! These games are so fresh they might still be hot! 🥵 

🏷 Games on sale

What’s better than great premium games? Great premium games that are on sale! So here are some of this week’s most interesting ones.

• $1.99 $0.99 One Way: The Elevator (iOS)

• $5.99 $4.49 ScourgeBringer

• $4.99 $2.99 Steam: rails to Riches (Android)

• $4.99 $2.99 Eight-Minute Empire (Android)

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