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Aquiris business director Sandro Manfredini explains the troubles of building personal relationships over video Interview Nov 24th, 2020

Aquiris business director Sandro Manfredini explains the troubles of building personal relationships over video

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Hot Five: Embracer Group makes a dozen acquisitions, Lila Games secures $2.8 million in funding, and Square Enix talk beautiful gaming experiences Hot Five Nov 23rd, 2020

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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

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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

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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

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Not immune but Finland has given GamerGate the cold shoulder

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

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Hot Five: Embracer Group makes a dozen acquisitions, Lila Games secures $2.8 million in funding, and Square Enix talk beautiful gaming experiences Hot Five Nov 23rd, 2020

Hot Five: Embracer Group makes a dozen acquisitions, Lila Games secures $2.8 million in funding, and Square Enix talk beautiful gaming experiences

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Aquiris business director Sandro Manfredini explains the troubles of building personal relationships over video Interview Nov 24th, 2020

Aquiris business director Sandro Manfredini explains the troubles of building personal relationships over video

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252 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 Nov 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 142 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Nov 17th, 2020

Update: All 142 Apple Arcade games available now

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Google Stadia: The good, the bad and the ugly of the cloud-streaming platform's first year DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS Nov 23rd, 2020

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29 notable mobile games released in October 2020 you may have missed

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How can iOS widgets help games improve their performance on mobile? WIDGET Nov 18th, 2020

How can iOS widgets help games improve their performance on mobile?

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Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Nexon nominates former TikTok CEO, Retro Studios hires Marisa Palumbo, and Keywords Studios brings in Fumiko Okura TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Nov 20th, 2020

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Pixel Noire Games’ Javier Barnes on how to benchmark, create and validate fun INTERVIEW Nov 20th, 2020

Pixel Noire Games’ Javier Barnes on how to benchmark, create and validate fun

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Ubisoft's Leon Winkler on the need to reach out and engage with POC communities in games POC IN MOBILE Nov 20th, 2020

Ubisoft's Leon Winkler on the need to reach out and engage with POC communities in games

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

Android app stores in China: many stores, one solution

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How SMG Studio fought Animal Crossing and a global pandemic to launch Moving Out MAKING OF Nov 19th, 2020

How SMG Studio fought Animal Crossing and a global pandemic to launch Moving Out

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Fundamentally Games’ Oscar Clark on game monetisation design and building value into your game INTERVIEW Nov 19th, 2020

Fundamentally Games’ Oscar Clark on game monetisation design and building value into your game

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How can iOS widgets help games improve their performance on mobile? WIDGET Nov 18th, 2020

How can iOS widgets help games improve their performance on mobile?

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13 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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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

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

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Square Enix Montréal design team on crafting beautiful gaming experiences for small screens BEAUTIFUL GAMES Nov 17th, 2020

Square Enix Montréal design team on crafting beautiful gaming experiences for small screens

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Google Stadia: The good, the bad and the ugly of the cloud-streaming platform's first year DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS Nov 23rd, 2020

Google Stadia: The good, the bad and the ugly of the cloud-streaming platform's first year

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as "The future of remote work is going to be hybrid," says Yodo1 AI team leader Christopher Dossman REMOTE WORKING Nov 18th, 2020

"The future of remote work is going to be hybrid," says Yodo1 AI team leader Christopher Dossman

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22 Why are people still playing Coin Master? KEEP SPINNING Mar 31st, 2020

Why are people still playing Coin Master?

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Epic aids nearly 1,000 developers with $60 million through its MegaGrants scheme HELPING HAND Nov 24th, 2020

Epic aids nearly 1,000 developers with $60 million through its MegaGrants scheme

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Ridiculous Fishing and Towelfight 2 are heading the Quality Index's Top 10 rated iOS and Android games of March 2013

1 as Chinese online games portal TapTap shut down for three months as government cracks down on rule breakers TAPPED OUT Mar 8th, 2018

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

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Skillz experiences a successful quarter with $60 million in revenue

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EA pulls Plants vs. Zombies 3 from soft launch

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Among Us hit 295 million monthly active users in October

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Embracer acquires A Thinking Ape and 11 other games studios SPLASH THE CASH Nov 18th, 2020

Embracer acquires A Thinking Ape and 11 other games studios

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PlayHaven

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Last Updated: Sep 5th, 2013
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PlayHaven is a Lifetime Value (LTV) Maximization Platform that enables mobile game creators to completely control and balance their in-game marketing and monetization needs.

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  • United States of America

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pgbiz Kontagent+PlayHaven emerges as integrated analytics and marketing play - Upsight Interview Mar 17th, 2014

Kontagent+PlayHaven emerges as integrated analytics and marketing play - Upsight

pgbiz Ahead of PlayHaven merger, Kontagent raises $4.8 million in fresh financing News Jan 14th, 2014

Ahead of PlayHaven merger, Kontagent raises $4.8 million in fresh financing

pgbiz PlayHaven merges with Kontagent to 'transform' the world's mobile data News Dec 12th, 2013

PlayHaven merges with Kontagent to 'transform' the world's mobile data

pgbiz PlayHaven's top 5 push notifications best practices Feature Nov 21st, 2013

PlayHaven's top 5 push notifications best practices

pgbiz PlayHaven sees platform usage up four-fold, now powering 20,000 games News Oct 23rd, 2013

PlayHaven sees platform usage up four-fold, now powering 20,000 games

pgbiz Corona and PlayHaven come together to help devs monetise and engage their users News Sep 5th, 2013

Corona and PlayHaven come together to help devs monetise and engage their users

pgbiz PlayHaven's Andy Yang on why you need to get much more from your push notifications Interview Jul 30th, 2013

PlayHaven's Andy Yang on why you need to get much more from your push notifications

pgbiz PlayHaven closes the loop with the launch of its push notification system News Jul 30th, 2013

PlayHaven closes the loop with the launch of its push notification system

pgbiz Partner power: PlayHaven brings monetisation platform to Marmalade devs News Jun 18th, 2013

Partner power: PlayHaven brings monetisation platform to Marmalade devs

pgbiz CEO Andy Yang on how Staq.io deal will speed PlayHaven's expansion Interview Jun 5th, 2013

CEO Andy Yang on how Staq.io deal will speed PlayHaven's expansion

pgbiz PlayHaven boosts its analytics acquiring team behind Staq.io Deal Jun 5th, 2013

PlayHaven boosts its analytics acquiring team behind Staq.io

pgbiz Forget user acquisition until you've honed retention and monetisation, says PlayHaven CEO Interview May 2nd, 2013

Forget user acquisition until you've honed retention and monetisation, says PlayHaven CEO

pgbiz As PlayHaven's tools go free, platform's reach booms; now reaches 523 million unique players News May 1st, 2013

As PlayHaven's tools go free, platform's reach booms; now reaches 523 million unique players

pgbiz PlayHaven opens European office, headed by ex-Rovio SVP Heijari News Feb 21st, 2013

PlayHaven opens European office, headed by ex-Rovio SVP Heijari

pgbiz Google exec Charles Yim joins monetisation outfit PlayHaven as COO News Jan 30th, 2013

Google exec Charles Yim joins monetisation outfit PlayHaven as COO

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