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

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

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East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal Regulars Sep 9th, 2019

East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal

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Facebook pulls Instant Games from Messenger, Zynga taps classic major IP and whatever happened to Wizards Unite? Hot Five Jul 29th, 2019

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

Should indie developers release their games in Asia?

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

How does Rules of Survival monetise?

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How changing one screen led Games2Win to increase Parking Frenzy 2.0's retention by 5% Chart of the Week Aug 18th, 2016

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

Hall of Fame: A slice of life with Fruit Ninja designer Luke Muscat

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Coming on leaps and bounds: the making of Bean Dreams Feature Mar 26th, 2015

Coming on leaps and bounds: the making of Bean Dreams

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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

PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Apple get hacked, EA names the App Store as its biggest money spinner, and we go big on China Week that was Jul 27th, 2013

PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Apple get hacked, EA names the App Store as its biggest money spinner, and we go big on China

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

How does Rules of Survival monetise?

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3 Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries The Charticle Mar 8th, 2018

Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries

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

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

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East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal Regulars Sep 9th, 2019

East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal

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Is Supercell's Brawl Stars set to rise in the East rather than the West? The Charticle Dec 13th, 2018

Is Supercell's Brawl Stars set to rise in the East rather than the West?

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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

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? The Charticle Apr 2nd, 2019

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

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How changing one screen led Games2Win to increase Parking Frenzy 2.0's retention by 5% Chart of the Week Aug 18th, 2016

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

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Be quick: Sign ups for Huawei's Developer Day For Games end tomorrow! HUAWEI DEVELOPER DAY Apr 28th, 2020

Be quick: Sign ups for Huawei's Developer Day For Games end tomorrow!

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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

This Week In China: Second wave of game approvals goes through, and Tencent files the first 5G-related lawsuit in the country

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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

This Week in China: Over one-third of iOS games could be pulled from the App Store as Chinese games gain ground across Asia

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This Week in China: ISBN regulations tighten, ChinaJoy 2020 going ahead, and an anti-Plague, Inc. appears THIS WEEK IN CHINA Mar 13th, 2020

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

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Mulled 2 takes the Very Big Indie Pitch crown in Jordan INDIE WINNERS Dec 2nd, 2019

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What Tencent, Amazon and Twitch’s great PUBG Mobile content giveaway means for game developers NEW CHANNELS Nov 4th, 2019

What Tencent, Amazon and Twitch’s great PUBG Mobile content giveaway means for game developers

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

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3 Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT Mar 8th, 2018

Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries

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China's mobile gaming market: A quantitative deep dive GUEST EDITORIAL Mar 25th, 2014

China's mobile gaming market: A quantitative deep dive

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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

This Week in China: Over one-third of iOS games could be pulled from the App Store as Chinese games gain ground across Asia

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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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First Chinese mobile internet global traffic exchange expo welcomes over 1,500 attendees EVENT REPORT Jun 20th, 2018

First Chinese mobile internet global traffic exchange expo welcomes over 1,500 attendees

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What Tencent, Amazon and Twitch’s great PUBG Mobile content giveaway means for game developers NEW CHANNELS Nov 4th, 2019

What Tencent, Amazon and Twitch’s great PUBG Mobile content giveaway means for game developers

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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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What happened to Pokemon Sleep? MISSINGNO Jun 1st, 2020

What happened to Pokemon Sleep?

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The Big Indie Interviews: Willem Delventhal on making award winning games for cats INDIE VIEW May 25th, 2020

The Big Indie Interviews: Willem Delventhal on making award winning games for cats

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China’s mobile game revenue reaches $7.7 billion during COVID-19 CHINA COVID-19 GROWTH May 21st, 2020

China’s mobile game revenue reaches $7.7 billion during COVID-19

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What western publishers can learn from China's Coronavirus response LEARNING FROM CHINA May 5th, 2020

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2 China mobile games market update: stricter regulations on the horizon STRICER REGULATIONS Apr 30th, 2020

China mobile games market update: stricter regulations on the horizon

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Indie Spotlight: Steet Lamp Games co-founder on the difficulties of breaking into games in India "LEAP OF FAITH" Apr 29th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: Steet Lamp Games co-founder on the difficulties of breaking into games in India

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The latest differences in casual games between the global and Chinese mobile game market MARKET DIFFERENCES Apr 23rd, 2020

The latest differences in casual games between the global and Chinese mobile game market

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What happened to Pokemon Sleep? MISSINGNO Jun 1st, 2020

What happened to Pokemon Sleep?

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The Big Indie Interviews: Willem Delventhal on making award winning games for cats INDIE VIEW May 25th, 2020

The Big Indie Interviews: Willem Delventhal on making award winning games for cats

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Yokozuna Data CEO Africa Perianez on a career in machine learning and a company where half of the engineers and all the data scientists are women WOMEN IN GAMES Mar 8th, 2019

Yokozuna Data CEO Africa Perianez on a career in machine learning and a company where half of the engineers and all the data scientists are women

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China’s mobile game revenue reaches $7.7 billion during COVID-19 CHINA COVID-19 GROWTH May 21st, 2020

China’s mobile game revenue reaches $7.7 billion during COVID-19

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2 A wolf in sheepskin clothing: How Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is far more than meets the eye DECODING DESIGN Aug 30th, 2017

A wolf in sheepskin clothing: How Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is far more than meets the eye

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The next frontier in gaming: Entering India ENTERING INDIA Apr 17th, 2020

The next frontier in gaming: Entering India

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1 Garena's Jason Ng on the rise of sophisticated gameplay on mobile 2020 TRENDS Jan 1st, 2020

Garena's Jason Ng on the rise of sophisticated gameplay on mobile

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2 China mobile games market update: stricter regulations on the horizon STRICER REGULATIONS Apr 30th, 2020

China mobile games market update: stricter regulations on the horizon

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Square Enix branches out into "entertainment AI" with forming of new company EXPANSION May 29th, 2020

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Tencent is investing $70 billion into tech infrastructures SPLASH THE CASH May 27th, 2020

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