It’s another mixed bag for Saudi in the foreign press today with mobile games, AlUla, oil prices and an ancient lava tube making the rounds. First up, Savvy Games Group — a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) — is eyeing more investments in mobile game development after its online board game Monopoly Go (App Store, Play Store) gained major traction, grossing some USD 2 bn in sales, Bloomberg reported.

Bloomberg is back with another traveler’s exposé on AlUla, which went as far as to call the Kingdom’s top desert destination a “a high-risk USD 1 tn [wager] on tourism,” saying that the current rate of progress at AlUla raises doubts about its ambitious projections.

Meanwhile, Fox News says the Kingdom and the Kremlin are deliberately hiking oil prices to boost presidential candidate Donald Trump’s political fortunes ahead of the US elections, the right-leaning outlet said, citing an MSNBC panel that entertained the theory.

On the other end of the spectrum, NYT is out with a piece on a lava tube that's been in Saudi Arabia for over 7k years. Umm Jirsan is the first to be excavated in the Kingdom, and was likely used as a place of refuge for early humans.

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