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This is no BS gaming podcast 2.5 gamers – 🚨📢 Breaking News: Apple AI money, rewarded roll-up, mobile funding wave

Sharing actionable insights, dropping knowledge from our day-to-day User Acquisition, Game Design, and Ad monetization jobs. We are definitely not discussing the latest industry news, but having so much fun! Let’s not forget this is a 4 am conference discussion vibe, so let’s not take it too seriously.

The Team:

Jakub Remia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠r- Game design consultant

Felix Braberg⁠ – Ad monetization consultant

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Matej Lančarič – User Acquisition & Creatives consultant

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Summary

Mobile Gaming & AI Industry Breaking News. This week’s biggest stories reveal major shifts in platform power, investment flows and UA channel consolidation.

In this Breaking News segment of Two and a Half Gamers, Felix explains:

• How Apple is making nearly $1B from generative AI apps despite lacking a clear AI product strategy
• Why new mobile gaming funding rounds signal renewed investor confidence
• The strategic acquisition of JustPlay by NCsoft for $200M
• Why rewarded UA companies are starting to consolidate globally
• How Nazara’s acquisition strategy shows the rise of owned-traffic ecosystems

The episode highlights a key trend:
Distribution and monetization infrastructure are becoming more valuable than individual game launches.

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