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Unravelling the corporate web of games companies, Xbox's $500m Netflix offer and Yalla's Western ambitions | Week in Views

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Unravelling the corporate web of games companies, Xbox's $500m Netflix offer and Yalla's Western ambitions | Week in Views

The games industry moves quickly and while stories may come and go there are some that we just can't let go of…

So, to give those particularly thorny topics a further going over we've created a weekly digest where the members of the PocketGamer.biz team share their thoughts and go that little bit deeper on some of the more interesting things that have happened in mobile gaming in the past week.

This year we’ve put together a host of regional Top 30 and Top 50 lists, and just last week we published our global Top 50 Game Makers 2026, too.

One of the things that has often come up during research is how some companies obfuscate where their true operations lie and various different names in sometimes confusing corporate webs.

Years ago I remember Deconstructor of Fun’s investigation into where Matchington Mansion developer Firecraft Studios was based. According to the studio’s LinkedIn, a company address led to a coffee shop in San Mateo, while a LTD company was set up in the Cayman Islands.

It was amusing seeing a few US studios apparently based on the side of a road in Delaware when researching the Top 30 US Game Makers list. Incorporating in the state is common practice for US businesses.

Meanwhile, researching the Top 30 China Game Makers and the upcoming Top 30 Southeast Asia Game Makers lists turned up some interesting findings. There are a number of Chinese companies headquartered out of Singapore - some taking interesting lengths to seemingly obfuscate their China operations.


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