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LEGO's Ankur Suri explains the difficulties with visas if you live in a developing country Interview Feb 12th, 2021

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Pokemon Day: How are The Pokemon Company's recent mobile releases performing?

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Facebook pulls Instant Games from Messenger, Zynga taps classic major IP and whatever happened to Wizards Unite?

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Should indie developers release their games in Asia? Mobile Mavens Sep 28th, 2018

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How changing one screen led Games2Win to increase Parking Frenzy 2.0's retention by 5%

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Hall of Fame: A slice of life with Fruit Ninja designer Luke Muscat Hall of Fame Aug 11th, 2016

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How Stacky Dash utilised TikTok to achieve 100,000 downloads a day Interview Jan 20th, 2021

How Stacky Dash utilised TikTok to achieve 100,000 downloads a day

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4 How does Rules of Survival monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 23rd, 2018

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Pokemon Day: How are The Pokemon Company's recent mobile releases performing? The Charticle Feb 27th, 2020

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Why Crunchyroll believes now is the right time to bring Princess Connect! Re: Dive to the West Interview Jan 27th, 2021

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How does $1 billion hit Summoners War monetise?

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1 Stateside: Nintendo doesn't need to go mobile, mobile needs to go Nintendo Stateside Sep 4th, 2013

Stateside: Nintendo doesn't need to go mobile, mobile needs to go Nintendo

Android app stores in China: many stores, one solution YODO1 Nov 19th, 2020

Android app stores in China: many stores, one solution

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This Week in China: Chinese gamers are spreading anti-coronavirus messages in Animal Crossing: New Horizons THIS WEEK IN CHINA Mar 27th, 2020

This Week in China: Chinese gamers are spreading anti-coronavirus messages in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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1 This Week in China: Over one-third of iOS games could be pulled from the App Store as Chinese games gain ground across Asia THIS WEEK IN CHINA Mar 20th, 2020

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This Week in China: ISBN regulations tighten, ChinaJoy 2020 going ahead, and an anti-Plague, Inc. appears

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This Week In China: Second wave of game approvals goes through, and Tencent files the first 5G-related lawsuit in the country THIS WEEK IN CHINA Apr 3rd, 2020

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