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King has taken over Microsoft Casual Games.

So if you don't know, King is Microsoft's mobile gaming division in the studio behind Candy Crush.

If you don't know, ladies and gentlemen, we covered Candy Crush not too long ago.

may 5th 2026 exactly as far as me covering the mobile sales and review roundup of candy crush specifically so when it comes to king safe to say they are ironically the king of mobile gaming retention if you don't know mobile games really make up majority of the gaming community and A lot of people who only care about consoles or PC, they don't know that mobile gaming is one of the main revenue drivers as far as the entire gaming industry because it's so accessible and the microtransaction aspect just being from your phone.

When you look at King taking over the Microsoft Mobile Gaming division, that is another positive aspect, in my opinion.

And King will assume responsibility for Microsoft Casual Games, which develops projects such as Microsoft Solitaire Collection, Sudoku, and Mahjong? Is that how you say it? Mahjong? What in the world? So, all the grandma games out there.

You know what I'm saying? I mean, all the respectable OG legacy games.

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Here we go.

The big story from the end of last week.

checking the iOS version of the app.

There doesn't seem to be any way of claiming that £5,000 or any mention of that incentive in the app itself.

It's obviously incredibly grim and insensitive and... disgusting and it appears to be made in Claude or something similar because the UI of the whole app is very similar to some of the hobbyist apps and games that have been popping up on the app stores since things like Claude came to prominence and of course it follows on from the Trump MAGA games that appeared on the White House website which took popular mobile games like Snake and Flappy Bird and gave them far right themes.

I guess Reform went one step further in that they got their app through app review on iOS and on Android and the game is now freely available on app stores.

But anyways, uh, it still supports my back, so you know, that's all that matters, as a, a 26-year-old man going on 80.

So [laughs] then after that, we talk about the gaming industry as How to Fish, Clash Royale is going crazy, so of course you know I'm putting a misrespect on the mobile gaming community, putting a misrespect on the stream, on the, uh, Steam community as far as How to Fish specifically.

And then, hold up now.

I know that ain't who I think it is.

All these games, by the way, we've talked about.

If we haven't talked about it, I will say I haven't covered it yet.

But because of their disrespect upon the mobile gaming community, you know what I'm saying?

Give 'em some praise.

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Full house.

Otherwise, the rest of the top 10.

The games moved around a bit, but it was the same games from July that stayed in.

And collectively mobile games, all mobile games between the two major stores generated 6.8 billion in August.

So that was down 6% year over year, but it was a 1% increase over July.

Then on the kind of download side of things, Level Infinite released Gangster Mirage City Online in the EU, LATAM, MENA, like Southeast Asia.