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Hot Five: PUBG Mobile revenue tops August, Storm8's Amber Okamura talks remote working, and everything you need to know about IDFA changes Hot Five Sep 21st, 2020

Hot Five: PUBG Mobile revenue tops August, Storm8's Amber Okamura talks remote working, and everything you need to know about IDFA changes

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How does Pokemon Café Mix monetise? The IAP Inspector Jul 30th, 2020

How does Pokemon Café Mix monetise?

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Indie Mavens: Weighing up the benefits between digital and physical events for indies

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

Pokemon Day: How are The Pokemon Company's recent mobile releases performing?

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Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts Data & Research Dec 4th, 2019

Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell News Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot Interview Oct 8th, 2019

Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot

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as 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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2017 - the year not much happened in mobile games, says Verto Chart of the Week Oct 31st, 2017

2017 - the year not much happened in mobile games, says Verto

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Hall of Fame: King CEO Riccardo Zacconi on building a mobile gaming powerhouse Hall of Fame Oct 27th, 2016

Hall of Fame: King CEO Riccardo Zacconi on building a mobile gaming powerhouse

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The internet reacts to the Nintendo Switch reveal After Hours Oct 22nd, 2016

The internet reacts to the Nintendo Switch reveal

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The Promiscuous Gamer enters a Marvel Avengers Alliance (2) and meets his Dream Girlfriend

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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? Comment & Opinion Aug 28th, 2015

Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?

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Why we need more games without Nolan North's voice in them Stateside Aug 14th, 2015

Why we need more games without Nolan North's voice in them

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Fallout Shelter's success, E3's future, and #PCGSanFran speakers in the spotlight Week that was Jun 20th, 2015

Fallout Shelter's success, E3's future, and #PCGSanFran speakers in the spotlight

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3 Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14 Monetizer Jan 30th, 2015

Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14

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Not immune but Finland has given GamerGate the cold shoulder The Finnsider Nov 14th, 2014

Not immune but Finland has given GamerGate the cold shoulder

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell News Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot Interview Oct 8th, 2019

Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot

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PG.biz week that was: Gamevil likes Amazon Appstore, Honeycomb will be open, AGON stops, Zipline starts, HTC profits, Xoom hasn't, 4th & Battery rejected, and Apple gets game PR Week that was Apr 9th, 2011

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay Feature Oct 15th, 2019

How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? Comment & Opinion Aug 28th, 2015

Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?

  • F2P
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10 How does Coin Master monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 7th, 2018

How does Coin Master monetise?

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Hot Five: PUBG Mobile revenue tops August, Storm8's Amber Okamura talks remote working, and everything you need to know about IDFA changes Hot Five Sep 21st, 2020

Hot Five: PUBG Mobile revenue tops August, Storm8's Amber Okamura talks remote working, and everything you need to know about IDFA changes

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2 Retail virtual reality: What does it need, and where the hell is it? Mobile Mavens Oct 22nd, 2014

Retail virtual reality: What does it need, and where the hell is it?

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Former Sumo director joins Supercell, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and Snap Games snaps up more TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Sep 25th, 2020

Mobile games jobs weekly: Former Sumo director joins Supercell, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and Snap Games snaps up more

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Swap-Swap Panda WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Sep 25th, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Swap-Swap Panda

Why Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells is "the biggest, most robust game Zynga's ever launched" URAMAGICIAN Sep 23rd, 2020

Why Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells is "the biggest, most robust game Zynga's ever launched"

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249 50 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Hay Day Pop and The Witcher: Monster Slayer SOFT LAUNCH Sep 23rd, 2020

50 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Hay Day Pop and The Witcher: Monster Slayer

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Update: All 135 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Sep 18th, 2020

Update: All 135 Apple Arcade games available now

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Persona.ly exceeds Animoca Brands' Crazy Defense Heroes ROAS KPIs by 70% - Mobile UA case study CASE STUDY Sep 18th, 2020

Persona.ly exceeds Animoca Brands' Crazy Defense Heroes ROAS KPIs by 70% - Mobile UA case study

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Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital: 15 of the most exciting sessions EDITOR'S CHOICE Sep 11th, 2020

Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital: 15 of the most exciting sessions

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What top mobile publisher Miniclip can offer developers NOT SO MINI Sep 10th, 2020

What top mobile publisher Miniclip can offer developers

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249 50 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Hay Day Pop and The Witcher: Monster Slayer SOFT LAUNCH Sep 23rd, 2020

50 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Hay Day Pop and The Witcher: Monster Slayer

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Why Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells is "the biggest, most robust game Zynga's ever launched" URAMAGICIAN Sep 23rd, 2020

Why Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells is "the biggest, most robust game Zynga's ever launched"

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay LIVEOP LEARNINGS Oct 15th, 2019

How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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10 How does Coin Master monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Feb 7th, 2018

How does Coin Master monetise?

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Swap-Swap Panda WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Sep 25th, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Swap-Swap Panda

Get excited for PG Connects Seattle 2020 with these six videos from last year's conference SIX OF THE BEST Mar 9th, 2020

Get excited for PG Connects Seattle 2020 with these six videos from last year's conference

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Updated: 22 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Dec 19th, 2019

Updated: 22 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales

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Update: All 135 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Sep 18th, 2020

Update: All 135 Apple Arcade games available now

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External vs in-game communities: Which is right for your studio? SPONSORED Sep 25th, 2020

External vs in-game communities: Which is right for your studio?

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Starloop Studios CEO Jesus Bosch discusses why developers are looking to partner more closely with outsourcing firms SPONSORED Sep 25th, 2020

Starloop Studios CEO Jesus Bosch discusses why developers are looking to partner more closely with outsourcing firms

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POC in Mobile: Fellow Traveller's Des Gayle on what's changed in the games industry and what hasn't DIVERSITY MATTERS Sep 25th, 2020

POC in Mobile: Fellow Traveller's Des Gayle on what's changed in the games industry and what hasn't

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From The Boys to Hellboy, four years of partnerships in Legendary: Game of Heroes LIVE AND KICKING Sep 24th, 2020

From The Boys to Hellboy, four years of partnerships in Legendary: Game of Heroes

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Why Bunch got $20 million to party harder COMING TOGETHER Sep 24th, 2020

Why Bunch got $20 million to party harder

  • Growth
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How to achieve ongoing hypercasual success despite an evolving market HYPERCASUAL SUCCESS Sep 23rd, 2020

How to achieve ongoing hypercasual success despite an evolving market

  • Growth
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Indie Spotlight: How developer 8SEC is coping in France under Covid-19 "NEW RHYTHM" Sep 23rd, 2020

Indie Spotlight: How developer 8SEC is coping in France under Covid-19

  • Indies
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Why now is the perfect time for mid-size casual studios to open up to hypercasual GOING HYPER Sep 22nd, 2020

Why now is the perfect time for mid-size casual studios to open up to hypercasual

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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot JOBS IN GAMES Oct 8th, 2019

Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot

  • Jobs
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How to achieve ongoing hypercasual success despite an evolving market HYPERCASUAL SUCCESS Sep 23rd, 2020

How to achieve ongoing hypercasual success despite an evolving market

  • Growth
  • Hypercasual
Why now is the perfect time for mid-size casual studios to open up to hypercasual GOING HYPER Sep 22nd, 2020

Why now is the perfect time for mid-size casual studios to open up to hypercasual

  • Game Design
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Remote Working: Nadav Ashkenazy's five-year rise to general manager at Supersonic JOBS IN GAMES Sep 22nd, 2020

Remote Working: Nadav Ashkenazy's five-year rise to general manager at Supersonic

  • Jobs in Games
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11 Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire? WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE May 25th, 2020

Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire?

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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? MICRO-TRANSACT THAT Aug 28th, 2015

Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?

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Starloop Studios CEO Jesus Bosch discusses why developers are looking to partner more closely with outsourcing firms SPONSORED Sep 25th, 2020

Starloop Studios CEO Jesus Bosch discusses why developers are looking to partner more closely with outsourcing firms

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Why Bunch got $20 million to party harder COMING TOGETHER Sep 24th, 2020

Why Bunch got $20 million to party harder

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Former Sumo director joins Supercell, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and Snap Games snaps up more TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Sep 25th, 2020

Mobile games jobs weekly: Former Sumo director joins Supercell, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and Snap Games snaps up more

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Get ready for a week of gaming this November with three brilliant online events WEEK OF GAMING Sep 25th, 2020

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Nier Reincarnation is coming to North America and Europe REINCARNATED Sep 25th, 2020

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Starloop Studios CEO Jesus Bosch discusses why developers are looking to partner more closely with outsourcing firms SPONSORED Sep 25th, 2020

Starloop Studios CEO Jesus Bosch discusses why developers are looking to partner more closely with outsourcing firms

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Epic acquires kid-safe platform SuperAwesome

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as Microsoft is launching xCloud in Japan in 2021 HEADING TO JAPAN Sep 25th, 2020

Microsoft is launching xCloud in Japan in 2021

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Coalition for App Fairness formed to combat Apple and its App Store policies FIGHT FOR FAIRNESS Sep 25th, 2020

Coalition for App Fairness formed to combat Apple and its App Store policies

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Gree wins its patent infringement lawsuit against Supercell CASE CLOSED Sep 21st, 2020

Gree wins its patent infringement lawsuit against Supercell

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Chinese online games portal TapTap shut down for three months as government cracks down on rule breakers

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Voodoo sues Rollic over plagiarism in hypercasual title Wood Shop

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Gree is suing Supercell for patent infringement in Clash Royale and Brawl Stars

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell READ 5 NOW Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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1 Among Us hits 86.6 million downloads two years after release JOIN US Sep 16th, 2020

Among Us hits 86.6 million downloads two years after release

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Master the Meta: How gaming's most underrated acquirer struck another incredible deal MASTER THE META Sep 21st, 2020

Master the Meta: How gaming's most underrated acquirer struck another incredible deal

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Report: US government is investigating Tencent's games investments UNDER INVESTIGATION Sep 21st, 2020

Report: US government is investigating Tencent's games investments

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Soft launch to worldwide launch: Optimizing your creative for global success KEEP TESTING Jan 14th, 2020

Soft launch to worldwide launch: Optimizing your creative for global success

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Seeking a job in the games industry - part two: The interview process JOBS IN GAMES Jul 8th, 2019

Seeking a job in the games industry - part two: The interview process

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1 Seeking a job in the games industry - part one: The application process JOBS IN GAMES Jul 1st, 2019

Seeking a job in the games industry - part one: The application process

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2 User acquisition for beginners: A checklist GUIDE TO UA May 21st, 2019

User acquisition for beginners: A checklist

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Financing your indie games development studio - part four: Due diligence THE FINAL STEP May 1st, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part four: Due diligence

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Financing your indie games development studio - part three: Structuring an investment deal ART OF THE DEAL Apr 26th, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part three: Structuring an investment deal

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Financing your indie games development studio - part two: The killer pitch PITCH PERFECT Apr 10th, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part two: The killer pitch

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell FINDING FUNDING Mar 29th, 2019

The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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Epic acquires kid-safe platform SuperAwesome EPICLY SUPER DUPER Sep 25th, 2020

Epic acquires kid-safe platform SuperAwesome

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Bidstack teams up with Nautilus Mobile for Real Cricket 20 ads BETTER ADS Sep 24th, 2020

Bidstack teams up with Nautilus Mobile for Real Cricket 20 ads

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Admix raises a further $1.5 million in Series A funding extension MO' MONEY Sep 23rd, 2020

Admix raises a further $1.5 million in Series A funding extension

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Microsoft acquires ZeniMax Media and Bethesda for $7.5 billion BIG ACQUISITION Sep 21st, 2020

Microsoft acquires ZeniMax Media and Bethesda for $7.5 billion

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as Mobile Premier League raises $90 million in Series C funding FUNDING Sep 21st, 2020

Mobile Premier League raises $90 million in Series C funding

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Metacore secures $29.6 million from Supercell as it rebrands from Everywear Games METAWEAR Sep 17th, 2020

Metacore secures $29.6 million from Supercell as it rebrands from Everywear Games

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Stillfront acquires Nanobit in deal worth up to $148 million STILLFRONT ACQUISITION Sep 17th, 2020

Stillfront acquires Nanobit in deal worth up to $148 million

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Keywords acquires Heavy Iron Studios WELCOME TO THE FAMILY Sep 17th, 2020

Keywords acquires Heavy Iron Studios

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There will be 2.5 billion mobile gamers by the end of 2020 NATION OF BILLIONS Sep 24th, 2020

There will be 2.5 billion mobile gamers by the end of 2020

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Scopely's Marvel Strike Force leads the way in US RPG boom MONEY MAKER Sep 24th, 2020

Scopely's Marvel Strike Force leads the way in US RPG boom

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Chinese strategy games account for 56 per cent of genre revenues in the US SMART STRATEGY Sep 22nd, 2020

Chinese strategy games account for 56 per cent of genre revenues in the US

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PUBG Mobile shoots through the most revenue in August 2020 MONEY MONEY MONEY Sep 15th, 2020

PUBG Mobile shoots through the most revenue in August 2020

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PGC Helsinki Digital: Nearly 17 million Animal Crossing 'Tweets' were sent in 12 days IT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING Sep 14th, 2020

PGC Helsinki Digital: Nearly 17 million Animal Crossing 'Tweets' were sent in 12 days

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as PGC Helsinki Digital: Battle royale made up 20% of total time spent across mobile games in the first half of 2020 ONLY 3% OF DOWNLOADS Sep 14th, 2020

PGC Helsinki Digital: Battle royale made up 20% of total time spent across mobile games in the first half of 2020

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as PUBG Mobile fires past $3.5 billion revenue, accumulates $500 million in two months PLAYER VERY WELL KNOWN Sep 11th, 2020

PUBG Mobile fires past $3.5 billion revenue, accumulates $500 million in two months

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Appodeal's 2020 monetisation performance index unveils impact of COVID-19 on eCPMs of in-app ads PERFORMANCE INDEX Sep 9th, 2020

Appodeal's 2020 monetisation performance index unveils impact of COVID-19 on eCPMs of in-app ads

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020 BEST OF 2020 Sep 8th, 2020

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020

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Supercell, Supercell, and Supercell: The most read news stories of 2019 MOST READ 2019 Dec 31st, 2019

Supercell, Supercell, and Supercell: The most read news stories of 2019

4 Things We Learned at Gamesforum Seattle 2019 EVENT RECAP Nov 5th, 2019

4 Things We Learned at Gamesforum Seattle 2019

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5 The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019 BEST OF 2019 Oct 1st, 2019

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019

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Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 INDIE SHOWCASE Jan 14th, 2019

Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019

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Disney shuts down Star Wars: Rivals, Honor of Kings takes $3.5bn in revenue and Tencent unveil Lego Cube HOT FIVE Sep 24th, 2018

Disney shuts down Star Wars: Rivals, Honor of Kings takes $3.5bn in revenue and Tencent unveil Lego Cube

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5 things we learned at Devcom and Gamescom 2018 GETTING KOLSCH WITH THE INDUSTRY Aug 31st, 2018

5 things we learned at Devcom and Gamescom 2018

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4 The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018 BEST OF 2018 Aug 21st, 2018

The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018

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Total Active App (currently available for download): 4,386,932

Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 213,872

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pguk update Aug 7th, 2019

Golf Peaks, Afterburn's acclaimed puzzler, adding 12 extremely challenging levels

pguk feature Feb 8th, 2019

Golf Peaks: 5 reasons to play Afterburn’s pint-sized puzzler

pguk update Feb 7th, 2019

Golf Peaks has teed up new content with Update 2.0

pgbiz The Big Indie Interviews: Afterburn tells how mixing golf and puzzles helped them grab The Big Indie Pitch crown Interview Dec 28th, 2018

The Big Indie Interviews: Afterburn tells how mixing golf and puzzles helped them grab The Big Indie Pitch crown

pguk game review Nov 14th, 2018

Golf Peaks review - "A pretty magnificent experience"

pguk new release Nov 13th, 2018

Golf-themed puzzler Golf Peaks has just landed on the App Store’s green

pgbiz Golf Peaks hits a hole in one at The Big Indie Pitch at GIC in Poznan 2018 News Oct 23rd, 2018

Golf Peaks hits a hole in one at The Big Indie Pitch at GIC in Poznan 2018

pguk upcoming Oct 23rd, 2018

Pre-orders open for teeny tiny golf puzzler Golf Peaks

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