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Hot Five: Sybo Games partners with the NFL, Ludia launches Lovelink, and how Cuphead found ever-lasting success Hot Five Sep 14th, 2020

Hot Five: Sybo Games partners with the NFL, Ludia launches Lovelink, and how Cuphead found ever-lasting success

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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 Mobile Mavens Jul 6th, 2020

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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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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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 Promiscuous Gamer Apr 8th, 2016

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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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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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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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?

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

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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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Hot Five: Sybo Games partners with the NFL, Ludia launches Lovelink, and how Cuphead found ever-lasting success Hot Five Sep 14th, 2020

Hot Five: Sybo Games partners with the NFL, Ludia launches Lovelink, and how Cuphead found ever-lasting success

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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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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Auto Brawl Chess WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Sep 18th, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Auto Brawl Chess

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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249 55 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 14th, 2020

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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

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Say hello to our Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital Diamond Sponsor Agora! DIAMOND SPONSOR Sep 10th, 2020

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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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249 55 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 14th, 2020

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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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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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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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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Auto Brawl Chess WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Sep 18th, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Auto Brawl Chess

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POC in Mobile: Chase Bethea's journey as a game composer and the many benefits of game jams DIVERSITY MATTERS Sep 18th, 2020

POC in Mobile: Chase Bethea's journey as a game composer and the many benefits of game jams

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as Unprecedented growth in China's HTML5 games market: WeChat Mini Game revenue up 18% WECHAT MINI GAMES Sep 18th, 2020

Unprecedented growth in China's HTML5 games market: WeChat Mini Game revenue up 18%

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Indie Spotlight: How Colossi Games is taking on the survival genre GLADIATORS READY Sep 17th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: How Colossi Games is taking on the survival genre

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as Hasbro's My Little Pony IP engages millions of fans in prominent Chinese mobile game MY LITTLE WORLD Sep 17th, 2020

Hasbro's My Little Pony IP engages millions of fans in prominent Chinese mobile game

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Remote Working: "Love the games you want to be hired to make," says Storm8's Amber Okamura JOBS IN GAMES Sep 16th, 2020

Remote Working: "Love the games you want to be hired to make," says Storm8's Amber Okamura

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Apple Arcade is a "welcome alternative to the free-to-play title", says Sega Hardlight's Neall Jones ARCADE ANNIVERSARY Sep 16th, 2020

Apple Arcade is a "welcome alternative to the free-to-play title", says Sega Hardlight's Neall Jones

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Master the Meta: Everything you need to know about the upcoming IDFA changes MASTER THE META Sep 14th, 2020

Master the Meta: Everything you need to know about the upcoming IDFA changes

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Speaker Spotlight: get up to speed on mobile ads at PGC Helsinki with AdInMo CEO Kristan Rivers SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Sep 14th, 2020

Speaker Spotlight: get up to speed on mobile ads at PGC Helsinki with AdInMo CEO Kristan Rivers

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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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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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Master the Meta: Everything you need to know about the upcoming IDFA changes MASTER THE META Sep 14th, 2020

Master the Meta: Everything you need to know about the upcoming IDFA changes

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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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  • Amazon Underground
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Remote Working: "Love the games you want to be hired to make," says Storm8's Amber Okamura JOBS IN GAMES Sep 16th, 2020

Remote Working: "Love the games you want to be hired to make," says Storm8's Amber Okamura

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

Why are people still playing Coin Master?

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Indie Spotlight: How Colossi Games is taking on the survival genre GLADIATORS READY Sep 17th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: How Colossi Games is taking on the survival genre

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Apple Arcade is a "welcome alternative to the free-to-play title", says Sega Hardlight's Neall Jones ARCADE ANNIVERSARY Sep 16th, 2020

Apple Arcade is a "welcome alternative to the free-to-play title", says Sega Hardlight's Neall Jones

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Stillfront acquires Nanobit, Keywords picks up Heavy Iron Studios, and Embracer pushes into VR TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Sep 18th, 2020

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Kwalee is jumping onto Nintendo Switch with updated version of TENS! later this year

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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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Bunch secures $20 million in Series A funding

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Unity makes $1.3 billion through its IPO on NYSE MONEY MONEY MONEY Sep 18th, 2020

Unity makes $1.3 billion through its IPO on NYSE

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PGC Helsinki Digital: "It's not about working from home, it's about freedom of location," says former Sony director Shahid Ahmad "LIFE-WORK BALANCE" Sep 18th, 2020

PGC Helsinki Digital: "It's not about working from home, it's about freedom of location," says former Sony director Shahid Ahmad

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PGC Helsinki Digital: The current state and the future of mobile esports PGC HELSINKI DIGITAL Sep 18th, 2020

PGC Helsinki Digital: The current state and the future of mobile esports

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as PGC Helsinki Digital: Why video games are "empathy machines" "PUSH THE BOUNDARIES" Sep 18th, 2020

PGC Helsinki Digital: Why video games are "empathy machines"

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

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

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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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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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1 Sybo Games partners with NFLPA to bring NFL players to Subway Surfers THIRD AND THIRTY Sep 10th, 2020

Sybo Games partners with NFLPA to bring NFL players to Subway Surfers

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Unity makes $1.3 billion through its IPO on NYSE MONEY MONEY MONEY Sep 18th, 2020

Unity makes $1.3 billion through its IPO on NYSE

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PGC Helsinki Digital: How the Finnish games industry has grown over 25 years PGC DIGITAL Sep 15th, 2020

PGC Helsinki Digital: How the Finnish games industry has grown over 25 years

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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 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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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

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Gameloft acquires interactive series specialist The Other Guys

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Embracer Group picks up VR firm Vertigo Games NEW ACQUISITION Sep 16th, 2020

Embracer Group picks up VR firm Vertigo Games

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Nvidia to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion ARM ACQUISITION Sep 14th, 2020

Nvidia to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion

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1 Sybo Games partners with NFLPA to bring NFL players to Subway Surfers THIRD AND THIRTY Sep 10th, 2020

Sybo Games partners with NFLPA to bring NFL players to Subway Surfers

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Keywords acquires creative agency Maverick Media ACQUISITION Aug 28th, 2020

Keywords acquires creative agency Maverick Media

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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

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The video games market will generate $200 billion by 2023 MAKING MONEY Sep 8th, 2020

The video games market will generate $200 billion by 2023

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Pokemon Masters EX catches $75 million in its first year CATCH EM ALL Sep 4th, 2020

Pokemon Masters EX catches $75 million in its first year

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Simulation games had great revenue growth in H1 2020

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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

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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

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018

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The Playforge

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www.pocketgamer.biz/company/4691/the-playforge/
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Last Updated: Oct 1st, 2013
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    http://theplayforge.com
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Founded in 2009, The Playforge is an industry-leading mobile games development house specialising in fun-filled, original applications for kids aged 5-100.

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  • 1720 S Amphlett Blvd
  • Suite 320
  • San Mateo
  • California
  • 94402
  • United States of America

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Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2011

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2011

Company Coverage

pgbiz Layoffs hit The Playforge as studio 'winds down' on game development News Oct 28th, 2013

Layoffs hit The Playforge as studio 'winds down' on game development

1 pguk news May 8th, 2012

The Playforge bringing Zombie Farm 2 to iOS in the 'next couple of weeks'

pguk news Mar 29th, 2012

Zombie Farm developer The Playforge releases new free-to-play collect-'em-up Tree World

pguk news Oct 13th, 2011

The Playforge releases new freemium iPhone life simulation Zombie Life

pguk news Oct 6th, 2011

Freemium iOS dig-'em-up Zombie Farm updated with 2 new invasions

pguk news Jul 28th, 2011

Freemium FarmVille-esque iPhone dig-'em-up Zombie Farm goes social in update, gets new daily bonuses

pguk news May 26th, 2011

Freemium FarmVille-esque Zombie Farm updated with seasonal invasion, new loot

pguk news May 12th, 2011

Freemium iPhone social hit Zombie Farm gets iPad support, discounted brains in update

1 pgbiz Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2011 List Feb 21st, 2011

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2011

3 pguk news Oct 9th, 2010

Zombie Farm gets Game Center support and new zombie abilities and gameplay

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