Week in Mobile Games E62 - Apple's regulatory wins and 2025's top genres

PocketGamer.biz head of content Craig Chapple and news editor Aaron Astle discuss the latest games industry news on the 62nd episode of the Week in Mobile Games Podcast.

On this week’s show we cover:

• The EU's "total capitulation" on App Store regulation and the UK's slow crawl to reining in Apple and Google.
• The most lucrative and fastest-growing mobile game genres of 2025 so far
• Our interview with Nazara CEO Nitish Mittersain and his comments on why M&A fails.
• The big mobile news from Pokémon Presents - Is this a blueprint for Nintendo?

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