Torulf Jernström

Subscriptions can be a great way to monetise certain types of media. It’s not clear that games are one such, however. But that’s not stopping Apple as it announces its initiative to build a subscription model around paid games on the Apple Store. Called Apple Arcade, it will launch later in 2019 with at least 100 exclusive games, exclusive at least on mobile, and be available across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. But what do our panel of experts make of it?

Mobile Mavens People Alex Gray Vice President, Solutions Consulting Swrve Ben Cousins CEO ISBIT Games Ben is a 15-year veteran of the games industry - he's worked as a senior executive, studio head, project lead, creative director and game designer at companies like DeNA, EA, Sony and Lionhead. He started working on traditional games, but has been focussed on the free-to-play business model since 2006 - an extremely long time by western standards.

Once again it's that time of year where we all start feeling reflective and look back on the year just gone. And what a year it's been for mobile games! A number of excellent new titles have been released this year that are shaking up the charts and changing the definition of what a mobile game can be. We've already asked our Indie Mavens what their favourite games of 2017 are, so we've also asked the same question of our Mobile Mavens: What is your Mobile Game of the Year for 2017 and why?