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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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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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3 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

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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

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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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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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3 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

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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2 How does Lords Mobile monetise? The IAP Inspector Nov 6th, 2017

How does Lords Mobile monetise?

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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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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

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

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

12 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019's East Meets West track

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

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

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

The indie spirit behind the rebirth and growth of the Australian games industry

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

The Big Indie Awards 2018 Top 20 Countdown Part 2 - 10 to 1

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

5 things we learned from the Melbourne International Games Week

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The Big Indie Awards 2018 Top 20 Countdown Part 1 - 20 to 11 BIG INDIE AWARDS Nov 2nd, 2018

The Big Indie Awards 2018 Top 20 Countdown Part 1 - 20 to 11

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

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2 How does Lords Mobile monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Nov 6th, 2017

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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

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

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

12 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019's East Meets West track

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Has Aristocrat hit the jackpot with its $990 million Big Fish Games acquisition? WHERE TO? Feb 1st, 2018

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Indie Spotlight: SMG Studio on going from Flash to Fast and Furious QUARTER MILE AT A TIME Mar 14th, 2019

Indie Spotlight: SMG Studio on going from Flash to Fast and Furious

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How live user comments for in-game mobile ads are boosting developer revenues AD TECH Mar 12th, 2019

How live user comments for in-game mobile ads are boosting developer revenues

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Jobs in Games: Florence composer Kevin Penkin on how to get a job creating music for games JOBS IN GAMES Mar 12th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Florence composer Kevin Penkin on how to get a job creating music for games

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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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How a China partnership turned Steppy Pants into a number one chart topper in Japan EAST TO EAST Mar 7th, 2019

How a China partnership turned Steppy Pants into a number one chart topper in Japan

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MapleStory M director on the challenges of bringing a 15-year-old MMORPG to mobile INTERVIEW Feb 28th, 2019

MapleStory M director on the challenges of bringing a 15-year-old MMORPG to mobile

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4 Delving under the hood of Synative's Try Now demo tech as it partners with Google Play PLAYABLE DEMOS Feb 25th, 2019

Delving under the hood of Synative's Try Now demo tech as it partners with Google Play

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How JoyPac delivered a top 10 success in China KEYS TO SUCCESS Feb 14th, 2019

How JoyPac delivered a top 10 success in China

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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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Jobs in Games: Florence composer Kevin Penkin on how to get a job creating music for games JOBS IN GAMES Mar 12th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Florence composer Kevin Penkin on how to get a job creating music for games

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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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How live user comments for in-game mobile ads are boosting developer revenues AD TECH Mar 12th, 2019

How live user comments for in-game mobile ads are boosting developer revenues

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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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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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Ex-Final Fantasy artists Akihiko Yoshida and Hideo Minaba on the creative process and designing for mobile ART FANTASY Mar 16th, 2017

Ex-Final Fantasy artists Akihiko Yoshida and Hideo Minaba on the creative process and designing for mobile

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Mobile was monumental in earning Tencent $19 billion in games revenue

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Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle passes $1.6 billion during its best month ever FIGHT Mar 20th, 2019

Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle passes $1.6 billion during its best month ever

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

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GDC 2019: Tencent’s WeChat opens doors for developers to create games on the platform WELCOME EXPLORERS Mar 20th, 2019

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Mobile was monumental in earning Tencent $19 billion in games revenue ROYALE Mar 22nd, 2019

Mobile was monumental in earning Tencent $19 billion in games revenue

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GDC 2019: Unity partners with Tencent to help bring more developers games to China

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Hit PC mod DOTA Auto Chess is coming to mobile minus the DOTA MOBILE AUTO CHESS Mar 15th, 2019

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Animoca Brands agrees $8.9m deal to resell iClick advertising inventory EXPANSION Mar 12th, 2019

Animoca Brands agrees $8.9m deal to resell iClick advertising inventory

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How a China partnership turned Steppy Pants into a number one chart topper in Japan EAST TO EAST Mar 7th, 2019

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OliveX raises $1 million to turn getting fit into a game

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Human: Fall Flat coming to mobile in China as 505 Games partners with X.D. Network HUMAN STAND TALL Feb 15th, 2019

Human: Fall Flat coming to mobile in China as 505 Games partners with X.D. Network

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Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle passes $1.6 billion during its best month ever FIGHT Mar 20th, 2019

Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle passes $1.6 billion during its best month ever

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Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent's Perfect World debuts top in China while Dragon Ball Z falls CHARTS Mar 18th, 2019

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Sony's Fate/Grand Order hits $3 billion in player spending SPEND Mar 14th, 2019

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China bans games streaming platform Twitch News Sep 21st, 2018

China bans games streaming platform Twitch

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No end in sight as South Korean games companies locked out of China for over a year News Aug 10th, 2018

No end in sight as South Korean games companies locked out of China for over a year

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Report: China still refuses to license new South Korean-developed games News Apr 11th, 2018

Report: China still refuses to license new South Korean-developed games

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Iran bans Clash of Clans over violence and "tribal conflict" concerns News Jan 3rd, 2017

Iran bans Clash of Clans over violence and "tribal conflict" concerns

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1 China's government bans the streaming of unapproved games News Dec 14th, 2016

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