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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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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

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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

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

How does Rules of Survival 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

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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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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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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As Rush Wars hits soft launch, how are Supercell’s other games doing? The Charticle Aug 26th, 2019

As Rush Wars hits soft launch, how are Supercell’s other games doing?

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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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Big Indie Pitch developers take centre stage at the inaugural Pocket Gamer LaunchPad BIG INDIE LAUNCHPAD Aug 7th, 2020

Big Indie Pitch developers take centre stage at the inaugural Pocket Gamer LaunchPad

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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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Time for a new free app analytics tool

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

Mulled 2 takes the Very Big Indie Pitch crown in Jordan

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

How does Rules of Survival monetise?

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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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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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1 Clash of alliances: The making of Samurai Siege MAKING OF Jun 4th, 2014

Clash of alliances: The making of Samurai Siege

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The best of The Big Indie Pitch 2018 - Defend The Cake BIG INDIE AWARDS 2018 Sep 25th, 2018

The best of The Big Indie Pitch 2018 - Defend The Cake

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As Rush Wars hits soft launch, how are Supercell’s other games doing? SUPER STARS Aug 26th, 2019

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How does Tencent's mobile MOBA Strike of Kings monetise? IAP INSPECTOR May 12th, 2017

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Unprecedented growth in China's HTML5 games market: WeChat Mini Game revenue up 18% WECHAT MINI GAMES Sep 18th, 2020

Unprecedented growth in China's HTML5 games market: WeChat Mini Game revenue up 18%

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Hasbro's My Little Pony IP engages millions of fans in prominent Chinese mobile game MY LITTLE WORLD Sep 17th, 2020

Hasbro's My Little Pony IP engages millions of fans in prominent Chinese mobile game

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Remote Working: Yoozoo narrative director Dylan Cole on the lessons the US can learn from China JOBS IN GAMES Sep 8th, 2020

Remote Working: Yoozoo narrative director Dylan Cole on the lessons the US can learn from China

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POC in Mobile: "The video games industry can do better," says Behaviour brand manager Sam Quino DIVERSITY MATTERS Sep 4th, 2020

POC in Mobile: "The video games industry can do better," says Behaviour brand manager Sam Quino

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How to improve your mobile game monetization strategy with AI AI MONETISATION Aug 27th, 2020

How to improve your mobile game monetization strategy with AI

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The art of improving your community engagement COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Aug 26th, 2020

The art of improving your community engagement

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What game developers need to know about China's local server requirements LOCAL SERVERS Aug 19th, 2020

What game developers need to know about China's local server requirements

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Three minutes with Nexon THREE MINUTES WITH NEXON Aug 18th, 2020

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Unprecedented growth in China's HTML5 games market: WeChat Mini Game revenue up 18% WECHAT MINI GAMES Sep 18th, 2020

Unprecedented growth in China's HTML5 games market: WeChat Mini Game revenue up 18%

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Hasbro's My Little Pony IP engages millions of fans in prominent Chinese mobile game MY LITTLE WORLD Sep 17th, 2020

Hasbro's My Little Pony IP engages millions of fans in prominent Chinese mobile game

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POC in Mobile: "The video games industry can do better," says Behaviour brand manager Sam Quino DIVERSITY MATTERS Sep 4th, 2020

POC in Mobile: "The video games industry can do better," says Behaviour brand manager Sam Quino

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What happened to Pokemon Sleep? MISSINGNO Jun 2nd, 2020

What happened to Pokemon Sleep?

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Hack and slash: The making of MIHOYO's Honkai Impact 3rd MAKING OF May 2nd, 2018

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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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Southeast Asia powered Gravity’s Ragnarok M: Eternal Love to $50 million a month EASTERN PROMISE Sep 5th, 2019

Southeast Asia powered Gravity’s Ragnarok M: Eternal Love to $50 million a month

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Remote Working: Yoozoo narrative director Dylan Cole on the lessons the US can learn from China JOBS IN GAMES Sep 8th, 2020

Remote Working: Yoozoo narrative director Dylan Cole on the lessons the US can learn from China

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Chinese online games portal TapTap shut down for three months as government cracks down on rule breakers

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PUBG Mobile crosses 600 million downloads as it celebrates two-year anniversary PLAYER WELL-KNOWN Mar 20th, 2020

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Mobile Premier League raises $90 million in Series C funding FUNDING Sep 21st, 2020

Mobile Premier League raises $90 million in Series C funding

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Tencent and The Pokemon Company debut Pokemon Unite UNITE 'EM ALL Jun 24th, 2020

Tencent and The Pokemon Company debut Pokemon Unite

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PGC Helsinki Digital: Battle royale made up 20% of total time spent across mobile games in the first half of 2020 ONLY 3% OF DOWNLOADS Sep 14th, 2020

PGC Helsinki Digital: Battle royale made up 20% of total time spent across mobile games in the first half of 2020

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PUBG Mobile fires past $3.5 billion revenue, accumulates $500 million in two months PLAYER VERY WELL KNOWN Sep 11th, 2020

PUBG Mobile fires past $3.5 billion revenue, accumulates $500 million in two months

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Pokemon Home captures $5.5 million in revenue across first six months SWEET HOME ALAKAZAM Aug 18th, 2020

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Mobile games revenue grew by $135 million across Malaysia and Singapore $100 MILLION RISE Aug 3rd, 2020

Mobile games revenue grew by $135 million across Malaysia and Singapore

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Sonic Dash has generated more revenue than the last five Sonic games combined RUN OUT OF STEAM? Jul 13th, 2020

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What happened to Dr. Mario World? BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW Jun 26th, 2020

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Zombie outbreak: the making of Kill Shot Virus ZOMBIES + BULLETS = FUN May 25th, 2017

Zombie outbreak: the making of Kill Shot Virus

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2 "You will see a top 10 grossing mobile shooter in the next few years" GUNNING FOR THE TOP Apr 11th, 2017

"You will see a top 10 grossing mobile shooter in the next few years"

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Hothead Games' Kill Shot franchise achieves 65 million downloads in two years ON TARGET Nov 17th, 2016

Hothead Games' Kill Shot franchise achieves 65 million downloads in two years

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How Canada-made FPS Kill Shot Bravo hit #5 in Chinese App Store downloads with little culturalization

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