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How World of Demons was summoned from an unreleased mobile game Interview Sep 14th, 2021

How World of Demons was summoned from an unreleased mobile game

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Pokemon Day: How are The Pokemon Company's recent mobile releases performing? The Charticle Feb 27th, 2020

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Should indie developers release their games in Asia? Mobile Mavens Sep 28th, 2018

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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% 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

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How World of Demons was summoned from an unreleased mobile game Interview Sep 14th, 2021

How World of Demons was summoned from an unreleased mobile game

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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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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

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

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

How does Tencent's mobile MOBA Strike of Kings monetise?

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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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Why Crunchyroll believes now is the right time to bring Princess Connect! Re: Dive to the West Interview Jan 27th, 2021

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Battle of Balls meets Transformers in Chinese crossover CHINA IN YOUR HANDS Jun 11th, 2021

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Android app stores in China: many stores, one solution YODO1 Nov 19th, 2020

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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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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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This Week in China: ISBN regulations tighten, ChinaJoy 2020 going ahead, and an anti-Plague, Inc. appears THIS WEEK IN CHINA Mar 13th, 2020

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

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Honor of Kings is the first mobile game to generate $10 billion MO' MONEY Sep 9th, 2021

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