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Trends in soft launching, Pokemon GO's relative failure in Japan, and why Ilyon Dynamics releases 10 games a week

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Trends in soft launching, Pokemon GO's relative failure in Japan, and why Ilyon Dynamics releases 10 games a week

You might not know who Ilyon Dynamics are, but that's OK - we've spoken to its CEO about how the company is sustaining constant growth on the App Store with its rapid release schedule.

In fact, a number of our readers already know about the 25-person Israel-based studio, as its our most read story of last week.

Coming in second is a look at why Pokemon GO isn't performing too well in Japan - at least that's "not too well" relative to its performance in other countries.

Jobs, parties, and trends

Third up is the news that ex-Gumi VP of Business Development Matthieu Burleraux has joined Hong Kong-based developer Playlab as its new Business Development Director.

And finally, we list all the parties happening during Gamescom, and we take a deep dive into the data of our Soft Launch list to identify new trends in how developers are testing their F2P games globally.

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