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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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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? 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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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

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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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

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

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

Facebook pulls Instant Games from Messenger, Zynga taps classic major IP and whatever happened to Wizards Unite?

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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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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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

PGC Hong Kong: Dark Horse Digital director Jason Frazer on how to apply knowledge from one field to another successfully

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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

PGC Hong Kong: Black Snowflake CEO to host session on HTML5 games market

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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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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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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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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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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

Hack and slash: The making of MIHOYO's Honkai Impact 3rd

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

Indonesia Snapshot: The largest mobile games market in Southeast Asia

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

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

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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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Dr. Mario World’s first month revenue is Nintendo’s lowest on mobile to date HARD PILL TO SWALLOW Aug 13th, 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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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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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

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

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Dr. Mario World’s first month revenue is Nintendo’s lowest on mobile to date HARD PILL TO SWALLOW Aug 13th, 2019

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

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Netmarble’s Blade and Soul Revolution tops iOS grossing charts in South Korea one day after launch News Dec 12th, 2018

Netmarble’s Blade and Soul Revolution tops iOS grossing charts in South Korea one day after launch

The MMORPG will launch globally in 2019

Hatch set to bring games streaming service to Android TV as part of premium membership scheme News Dec 12th, 2018

Hatch set to bring games streaming service to Android TV as part of premium membership scheme

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Analytics platform AppOnboard eyes up London and Seoul offices following $30m funding drive News Dec 11th, 2018

Analytics platform AppOnboard eyes up London and Seoul offices following $30m funding drive

Los Angeles-based company claim $15m will come in off the bat from Breakaway Growth

Weekly global mobile games charts: Kabam’s Marvel Contest of Champions enjoys Western surge in player spending News Dec 11th, 2018

Weekly global mobile games charts: Kabam’s Marvel Contest of Champions enjoys Western surge in player spending

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MZ picks up Wells Fargo exec for chief financial officer role

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Mountains takes home Best Mobile Game prize from The Game Awards 2018 News Dec 7th, 2018

Mountains takes home Best Mobile Game prize from The Game Awards 2018

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Where do indies and innovative ideas fit in the current mobile games market?

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From RuneScape to Love Island: Fusebox's Sarah Longthorne on how to land a job as a narrative designer Interview Dec 6th, 2018

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