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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

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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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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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FTUE: Eternal Arena Regulars Nov 24th, 2015

FTUE: Eternal Arena

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

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

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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

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

How does $1 billion hit Summoners War monetise?

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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

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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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8 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019's East Meets West track EAST MEETS WEST Jul 4th, 2019

8 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019's East Meets West track

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Region Focus: How China’s big game freeze has made local developers more internationally minded REGION FOCUS Jun 13th, 2019

Region Focus: How China’s big game freeze has made local developers more internationally minded

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E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct NINTENDO E3 ROUNDUP Jun 11th, 2019

E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct

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Top 10 things to do in Hong Kong while at Pocket Gamer Connects EVENT Jun 6th, 2019

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4 videos analysing China's lucrative hyper-casual games market and how to get user attention HYPER-CASUAL Jun 6th, 2019

4 videos analysing China's lucrative hyper-casual games market and how to get user attention

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Region Focus: Finding opportunities in Hong Kong's small games industry REGION FOCUS Jun 5th, 2019

Region Focus: Finding opportunities in Hong Kong's small games industry

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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

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

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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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E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct NINTENDO E3 ROUNDUP Jun 11th, 2019

E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct

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How does Onmyoji monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Jan 26th, 2018

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Region Focus: Finding opportunities in Hong Kong's small games industry REGION FOCUS Jun 5th, 2019

Region Focus: Finding opportunities in Hong Kong's small games industry

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Top 10 things to do in Hong Kong while at Pocket Gamer Connects EVENT Jun 6th, 2019

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New Zealand hyper-casual start-up JaffaJam wants to shake up the sector JAFFAJAM Aug 13th, 2019

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PGC Hong Kong: WAX strategic advisor Malcolm Caselle to host talk on the purpose of digital goods and NFTs NFTS Jul 15th, 2019

PGC Hong Kong: WAX strategic advisor Malcolm Caselle to host talk on the purpose of digital goods and NFTs

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PGC Hong Kong: Dark Horse Digital director Jason Frazer on how to apply knowledge from one field to another successfully PG CONNECTS Jul 12th, 2019

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PGC Hong Kong: Kunlun Korea GM Sean Lim on mobile market trends MARKET TRENDS Jul 11th, 2019

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PGC Hong Kong: Liquefy CEO Adrian Lai on the importance of tokenisation in esports BLOCKCHAIN Jul 10th, 2019

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PGC Hong Kong: Touchten Games CEO Rokimas Soeharyo on growing live ops LIVE OPS Jul 9th, 2019

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PGC Hong Kong: Black Snowflake CEO to host session on HTML5 games market HTML5 Jul 8th, 2019

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New Zealand hyper-casual start-up JaffaJam wants to shake up the sector JAFFAJAM Aug 13th, 2019

New Zealand hyper-casual start-up JaffaJam wants to shake up the sector

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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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Voodoo’s ad monetisation and the recipe for hyper-casual success HYPER-CASUAL Aug 5th, 2019

Voodoo’s ad monetisation and the recipe for hyper-casual success

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

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

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

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1 Indonesia Snapshot: The largest mobile games market in Southeast Asia MOBILE GAMES TRENDS Mar 2nd, 2018

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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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Good Job Games’ Fun Race 3D tops downloads for hyper-casual games in July SENSOR TOWER Aug 15th, 2019

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Pokemon Masters has five million Trainers already pre-registered THERE ARE DOZENS OF US Aug 15th, 2019

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US video game console and mobile tariff delayed until December TRUMP TARIFFS Aug 14th, 2019

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Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile and Perfect World power Tencent's smartphone revenue to $3.2bn in Q2 PERFECT GROWTH Aug 14th, 2019

Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile and Perfect World power Tencent's smartphone revenue to $3.2bn in Q2

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Good Job Games’ Fun Race 3D tops downloads for hyper-casual games in July SENSOR TOWER Aug 15th, 2019

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Animoca Brands and Winfinite firm Versus Systems sign $500k mutual investment deal PARTNERSHIP Aug 16th, 2019

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NetEase plots $725 million esports park investment in Shanghai ESPORTS PARK Aug 7th, 2019

NetEase plots $725 million esports park investment in Shanghai

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My.Games partners with iDreamSky for mutual global expansion PARTNERSHIP Aug 1st, 2019

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Bandai Namco’s new Tori platform merges physical toys with mobile gaming TOYS MEANS TOYS Jul 25th, 2019

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Animoca Brands’ Pixowl is making an Addams Family mobile game LICENSING DEAL Jul 25th, 2019

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Good Job Games’ Fun Race 3D tops downloads for hyper-casual games in July SENSOR TOWER Aug 15th, 2019

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Sensor Tower: PUBG Mobile is making more money than Fortnite WINNER WINNER Aug 9th, 2019

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$100m dev payouts, 1.2 billion hours of engagement a month: What we learned at the Roblox Developers Conference

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East Meets West: Tencent and ByteDance get in the smartphone game, and India tops worldwide mobile downloads for Q2 News Aug 5th, 2019

East Meets West: Tencent and ByteDance get in the smartphone game, and India tops worldwide mobile downloads for Q2

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Apex Legends heading to mobile, EA Mobile's declining revenue, and Nintendo offers free Joy Con repairs Hot Five Aug 5th, 2019

Apex Legends heading to mobile, EA Mobile's declining revenue, and Nintendo offers free Joy Con repairs

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Pokemon Go catches one billion downloads News Aug 1st, 2019

Pokemon Go catches one billion downloads

Half of those were picked up in the game's first two months back in September 2016

7% of Games Workshop royalty income comes from mobile News Jul 31st, 2019

7% of Games Workshop royalty income comes from mobile

Total War: Warhammer 2 and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 cited for their strong performances in boosting royalty revenue

Three month Facebook Instant Games review pause coming to an end News Jul 25th, 2019

Three month Facebook Instant Games review pause coming to an end

Social network giant implements new application process

Facebook pulls Instant Games from Messenger News Jul 25th, 2019

Facebook pulls Instant Games from Messenger

Move comes as the company claims it wants to make the chat app "faster, lighter and simpler"

Scopely’s Star Trek Fleet Command beams up $100m in eight months News Jul 25th, 2019

Scopely’s Star Trek Fleet Command beams up $100m in eight months

Publisher's fastest-growing game to date

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Seven new partners brought in for the first $1m Auto Chess Invitational tournament News Aug 16th, 2019

Seven new partners brought in for the first $1m Auto Chess Invitational tournament

Animoca Brands and Winfinite firm Versus Systems sign $500k mutual investment deal News Aug 16th, 2019

Animoca Brands and Winfinite firm Versus Systems sign $500k mutual investment deal

Good Job Games’ Fun Race 3D tops downloads for hyper-casual games in July News Aug 15th, 2019

Good Job Games’ Fun Race 3D tops downloads for hyper-casual games in July

Pokemon Masters has five million Trainers already pre-registered News Aug 15th, 2019

Pokemon Masters has five million Trainers already pre-registered

Weekly global mobile games charts: Fortnite’s mechs send the battle royale hit to number one in the US News Aug 15th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Fortnite’s mechs send the battle royale hit to number one in the US

8 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019's East Meets West track Feature Jul 4th, 2019

8 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019's East Meets West track

Region Focus: How China’s big game freeze has made local developers more internationally minded Feature Jun 13th, 2019

Region Focus: How China’s big game freeze has made local developers more internationally minded

E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct News Jun 11th, 2019

E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct

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Top 10 things to do in Hong Kong while at Pocket Gamer Connects

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4 videos analysing China's lucrative hyper-casual games market and how to get user attention

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