Inside Subway Surfers, Mobile Gaming's Most Enduring Hit

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Jul 21, 202656:09Business

Fourteen years after launch, Subway Surfers is still one of the biggest games in the world. In this episode, Kalie Moore sits down with Mathias Gredal Nørvig, CEO of SYBO, to unpack how a mobile game launched in 2012 con...

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