{"id":85357,"date":"2024-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/04\/21\/mobile-gaming-alula-and-and-ancient-lava-tube-all-get-ink-in-the-global-press-this-morning\/"},"modified":"2024-04-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:00:00","slug":"mobile-gaming-alula-and-and-ancient-lava-tube-all-get-ink-in-the-global-press-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/04\/21\/mobile-gaming-alula-and-and-ancient-lava-tube-all-get-ink-in-the-global-press-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile gaming, AlUla, and \u2026 and ancient lava tube all get ink in the global press this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>It\u2019s a<\/strong><strong>nother mixed bag for Saudi in the foreign press today with mobile games, <\/strong><strong>AlUla, oil <\/strong><strong>prices and an ancient lava tube making the rounds<\/strong>. First up, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/savvygames.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Savvy Games Group<\/a> \u2014 a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) \u2014 is eyeing more investments in mobile game development after its online board game Monopoly Go (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/monopoly-go\/id1621328561\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">App Store<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.scopely.monopolygo&hl=en&gl=US\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Play Store<\/a>) gained major traction, grossing some USD 2 bn in sales, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-04-19\/saudi-arabia-s-savvy-to-put-more-into-mobile-after-monopoly-go\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Bloomberg is back with another <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2024-04-20\/visiting-saudi-arabia-s-alula-illustrates-the-kingdom-s-1-trillion-tourism-bet\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">traveler\u2019s expos\u00e9 on AlUla<\/a><\/strong>, which went as far as to call the Kingdom\u2019s top desert destination a \u201ca high-risk USD 1 tn [wager] on tourism,\u201d saying that the current rate of progress at AlUla raises doubts about its ambitious projections. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Meanwhile<\/strong>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/russia-saudi-arabia-may-manipulating-oil-prices-help-trump-msnbc\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> says the Kingdom and the Kremlin are deliberately hiking oil prices to boost presidential candidate Donald Trump\u2019s political fortunes ahead of the US elections, the right-leaning outlet said, citing an MSNBC panel that entertained the theory. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>On the other end of the spectrum, <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/17\/science\/saudi-arabia-lava-tube.html\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">NYT is out with a piece on a lava tube<\/a><\/strong><strong> that's been in <\/strong><strong>Saudi Arabia for over 7k years<\/strong>. Umm Jirsan is the first to be excavated in the Kingdom, and was likely used as a place of refuge for early humans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svvy Games\u2019 Monopoly Go grosses USD 2 bn in sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2561],"tags":[10,1151,229],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-85357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saudi-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam-ksa","tag-public-investment-fund-pif","tag-saudi-in-the-news","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"0f77c5bf-73d3-4ced-893f-11516b521c2c","order":"10","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Mobile gaming, AlUla, and \u2026 and ancient lava tube all get ink in the global press this morning","related_issue":[85339],"teaser":"Svvy Games\u2019 Monopoly Go grosses USD 2 bn in sales","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/4\/.5d2373c1-67da-4e6f-ae4c-5bf57c1eb276.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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