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Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show? The Charticle May 20th, 2019

Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show?

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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

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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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FTUE: Eternal Arena Regulars Nov 24th, 2015

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Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show? The Charticle May 20th, 2019

Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show?

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

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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 to design effective mobile game monetisation for India Mobile Mavens May 8th, 2017

How to design effective mobile game monetisation for India

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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

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

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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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Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later 10 YEARS OF MINECRAFT May 17th, 2019

Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later

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GDC 2019: All the top news in one place GDC ROUNDUP Mar 22nd, 2019

GDC 2019: All the top news in one place

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How hard is it to bring a PC hit like Human: Fall Flat to smartphones anyway? INTERVIEW Feb 25th, 2019

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12 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019's East Meets West track EAST MEETS WEST Feb 25th, 2019

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Four experts explain: What you should know about Asia mobile gaming in 2019 ASIA INSIGHTS Jan 10th, 2019

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The indie spirit behind the rebirth and growth of the Australian games industry RESTART Jan 2nd, 2019

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The Big Indie Awards 2018 Top 20 Countdown Part 2 - 10 to 1 BIG INDIE AWARDS Nov 22nd, 2018

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5 things we learned from the Melbourne International Games Week LESSONS FROM DOWN UNDER Nov 6th, 2018

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Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later 10 YEARS OF MINECRAFT May 17th, 2019

Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later

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

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GDC 2019: All the top news in one place GDC ROUNDUP Mar 22nd, 2019

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Four experts explain: What you should know about Asia mobile gaming in 2019 ASIA INSIGHTS Jan 10th, 2019

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The Big Indie Awards 2018 Top 20 Countdown Part 2 - 10 to 1 BIG INDIE AWARDS Nov 22nd, 2018

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

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Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show? GAME OF THRONES May 20th, 2019

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Synative’s revolutionary playable ad tech is like Google’s Stadia for mobile FUTURE OF STREAMING Apr 30th, 2019

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Defending against the dark arts of mobile game hacking with AppSealing HACK BLOCKER Apr 12th, 2019

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Key mobile games industry trends for 2019 and how they’ll affect the sector in 2020 MOBILE TRENDS Apr 9th, 2019

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

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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

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Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show? GAME OF THRONES May 20th, 2019

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Malaysia snapshot: Mobile Legends extends its lead MOBILE GAME TRENDS May 11th, 2018

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Loot box design 2.0: Complying with China's new rules CHINESE REGULATIONS May 7th, 2019

Loot box design 2.0: Complying with China's new rules

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

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Four years on: Netmarble on how Marvel Future Fight has continued to assemble fans LIVE AND KICKING May 9th, 2019

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Synative’s revolutionary playable ad tech is like Google’s Stadia for mobile FUTURE OF STREAMING Apr 30th, 2019

Synative’s revolutionary playable ad tech is like Google’s Stadia for mobile

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Mintegral, JoyPac, Ubisoft and Outfit7 to speak at London mini-summit EVENT May 22nd, 2019

Mintegral, JoyPac, Ubisoft and Outfit7 to speak at London mini-summit

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Tencent acquires Malmo developer Sharkmob M&A May 22nd, 2019

Tencent acquires Malmo developer Sharkmob

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11 Battle royale Garena Free Fire generated $90 million in Q1 2019 BRAZIL TOPS LIST May 21st, 2019

Battle royale Garena Free Fire generated $90 million in Q1 2019

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Weekly global mobile games charts: Game for Peace the second top grosser in China behind Honor of Kings WEEKLY CHARTS May 20th, 2019

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Keep an eye open for Indonesia, the fastest-growing nation in Adjust’s Global App Trends 2019 report REPORT May 17th, 2019

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Microsoft and Sony set aside rivalry to team up on cloud gaming BIG DEAL May 16th, 2019

Microsoft and Sony set aside rivalry to team up on cloud gaming

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Battle royale games have surpassed $2 billion on mobile WINNER WINNER May 17th, 2019

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Tencent’s "peaceful" PUBG clone Game for Peace earned over $14 million in three days

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NetEase to launch first Pokemon mobile game in China POKEMON QUEST May 20th, 2019

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Microsoft and Sony set aside rivalry to team up on cloud gaming BIG DEAL May 16th, 2019

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Supercell partners with South Korean TV network OGN for Clash Royale League SEASON 2 May 14th, 2019

Supercell partners with South Korean TV network OGN for Clash Royale League

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Rockstar acquires Indian developer Dhruva Interactive for $7.9m ACQUISITION NEWS May 13th, 2019

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Tencent’s Honour of Kings tops the list for highest grossing mobile game globally in April 2019 SUPERDATA May 23rd, 2019

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11 Battle royale Garena Free Fire generated $90 million in Q1 2019 BRAZIL TOPS LIST May 21st, 2019

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Weekly global mobile games charts: Game for Peace the second top grosser in China behind Honor of Kings WEEKLY CHARTS May 20th, 2019

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Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show? GAME OF THRONES May 20th, 2019

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Keep an eye open for Indonesia, the fastest-growing nation in Adjust’s Global App Trends 2019 report REPORT May 17th, 2019

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Indie Spotlight: Arcane Circus’s Molly Heady-Carroll on the accessibility of the mobile market and finding the balance in life Interview Mar 8th, 2018

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"Defining what you want and don’t want is vital to creating a clear plan for yourself to reaching your goals. This definition can be surprisingly different for each person"

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Google launches its augmented reality SDK ARCore on Android

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Norwegian Consumer Council claims Nintendo's "no refunds" policy on Switch eShop is not compliant with EU law News Feb 22nd, 2018

Norwegian Consumer Council claims Nintendo's "no refunds" policy on Switch eShop is not compliant with EU law

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New educational mobile games studio Ultra Creative Games sets up shop in Vancouver News Feb 22nd, 2018

New educational mobile games studio Ultra Creative Games sets up shop in Vancouver

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Apple's Search Ads fall in rank in latest AppsFlyer Performance Index due to higher costs and lower ROI News Feb 22nd, 2018

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Facebook and Google still on top

Bulb Boy developer Bulbware partners with YouTuber PewDiePie for upcoming mobile game Poopdie News Feb 22nd, 2018

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Fyber absorbs Heyzap and Inneractive as part of its rebranding efforts News Feb 22nd, 2018

Fyber absorbs Heyzap and Inneractive as part of its rebranding efforts

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Report: Apple to refresh its line of iPad products in March 2018 News Feb 22nd, 2018

Report: Apple to refresh its line of iPad products in March 2018

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Sony ForwardWorks' No Heroes Allowed! Dash! clears 500,000 downloads in three days News Feb 21st, 2018

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Bandai Namco and Sega partner to bring Pac-Man and Sonic together on mobile for the first time News Feb 21st, 2018

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British Games Institute hopes to "turbo-charge" industry agenda with National Videogame Foundation merger News Feb 21st, 2018

British Games Institute hopes to "turbo-charge" industry agenda with National Videogame Foundation merger

Will operate out of the NVF's headquarters in Nottingham

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Tencent’s Honour of Kings tops the list for highest grossing mobile game globally in April 2019

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Gravity and Puzzle & Dragons spur on GungHo sales to $318m in Q1 2019

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For the first time since launch Lineage 2 is no longer Netmarble’s biggest sales driver

Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later Feature May 17th, 2019

Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later

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GDC 2019: All the top news in one place

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How hard is it to bring a PC hit like Human: Fall Flat to smartphones anyway?

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Four experts explain: What you should know about Asia mobile gaming in 2019

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Weekly global mobile games charts: Game for Peace the second top grosser in China behind Honor of Kings News May 20th, 2019

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