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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

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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

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

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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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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

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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

The story of DreamTree Games and DeLight from co-founder ZhiWei Tan Interview Dec 9th, 2020

The story of DreamTree Games and DeLight from co-founder ZhiWei Tan

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Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert on the allure of Apple Arcade Interview Dec 16th, 2020

Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert on the allure of Apple Arcade

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

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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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Yodo1’s guide to publishing your mobile game in China, part 2: content and system changes YODO1 Nov 6th, 2020

Yodo1’s guide to publishing your mobile game in China, part 2: content and system changes

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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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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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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 GOLDEN DATA Jan 16th, 2020

Time for a new free app analytics tool

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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

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

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

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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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2 How does $1 billion hit Summoners War monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Aug 11th, 2017

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The Big Indie interviews: Hong Kong indie Trefle & Co Game talk thriving, adapting and succeeding INDIE VIEW Dec 29th, 2020

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Android app stores in China: many stores, one solution

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"The future of remote work is going to be hybrid," says Yodo1 AI team leader Christopher Dossman REMOTE WORKING Nov 18th, 2020

"The future of remote work is going to be hybrid," says Yodo1 AI team leader Christopher Dossman

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Netmarble US president discusses how BTS Universe Story came to light MAKING OF Nov 11th, 2020

Netmarble US president discusses how BTS Universe Story came to light

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Next Level Games was an anomaly - don't expect more Nintendo acquisitions anytime soon ASK IWATA Jan 8th, 2021

Next Level Games was an anomaly - don't expect more Nintendo acquisitions anytime soon

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The Big Indie interviews: Hong Kong indie Trefle & Co Game talk thriving, adapting and succeeding INDIE VIEW Dec 29th, 2020

The Big Indie interviews: Hong Kong indie Trefle & Co Game talk thriving, adapting and succeeding

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

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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

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

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

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

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The story of DreamTree Games and DeLight from co-founder ZhiWei Tan INDIE SPOTLIGHT Dec 9th, 2020

The story of DreamTree Games and DeLight from co-founder ZhiWei Tan

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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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Call of Duty: Mobile fires through $14 million in its Chinese launch week

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The Nintendo Switch hits one million official sales in China SWITCH IT UP Jan 14th, 2021

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Among Us clone 'Werewolf Among Us' accumulates 663k lifetime downloads, 100k in a single day IMPOSTER Jan 7th, 2021

Among Us clone 'Werewolf Among Us' accumulates 663k lifetime downloads, 100k in a single day

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Five mobile games have made more than a billion dollars in 2020 so far LOCKDOWN LIFT Dec 16th, 2020

Five mobile games have made more than a billion dollars in 2020 so far

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The Asia-10 market will have 826 million gamers by 2024 GROWING MARKET Dec 3rd, 2020

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Nexon’s The Kingdom of the Winds: Yeon is #1 Korean action RPG BLOWN TO THE TOP Nov 24th, 2020

Nexon’s The Kingdom of the Winds: Yeon is #1 Korean action RPG

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Dragalia Lost nears $150 million worldwide revenue, Japan accounts for 50% LOST IN TRANSLATION? Oct 22nd, 2020

Dragalia Lost nears $150 million worldwide revenue, Japan accounts for 50%

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Is access to funding for Indian games companies improving? INDIAN MAVENS Mar 30th, 2017

Is access to funding for Indian games companies improving?

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Indian mobile game developers discuss Youzu's new Pune office

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Will Google Play integration in digital wallets affect Indian game revenues?

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"If someone doesn't get the feature we had, I don't think they'd be able to sell more than 100 units" DROPPING OUT Dec 6th, 2016

"If someone doesn't get the feature we had, I don't think they'd be able to sell more than 100 units"

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Indian game developers reflect on NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2016 BACK IN THE OFFICE Nov 17th, 2016

Indian game developers reflect on NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2016

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Indian game developers discuss whether Nintendo Switch could be a success in India INDIAN MAVENS Nov 2nd, 2016

Indian game developers discuss whether Nintendo Switch could be a success in India

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2 Is localising games for India a smart move? INDIAN MAVENS Oct 6th, 2016

Is localising games for India a smart move?

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1 Does iPhone 7's high price seal its doom in India? INDIAN MAVENS Sep 16th, 2016

Does iPhone 7's high price seal its doom in India?

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Is Shilpa Shetty's newly co-founded Viaan Studios set for success? INDIAN MAVENS Sep 1st, 2016

Is Shilpa Shetty's newly co-founded Viaan Studios set for success?

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How quitting game design college eventually led Dropout Games to App Store success LEARNING BY DOING Aug 17th, 2016

How quitting game design college eventually led Dropout Games to App Store success

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Top Indian indie games selling at $0.15 apiece as part of Indian App Store's Independence Week

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Why are collaborations between indie studios so common in India? STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Jun 30th, 2016

Why are collaborations between indie studios so common in India?

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