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What industry trends do mobile indies see on the horizon for 2019? Mobile Mavens Feb 1st, 2019

What industry trends do mobile indies see on the horizon for 2019?

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Voodoo racks up 1.5bn downloads, mobile user retention and session data, and Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards winners revealed

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Is Supercell's Brawl Stars set to rise in the East rather than the West?

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

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10 commandments of free-to-play, Mobile Mavens talk Pixel and Daydream View VR, and publishers are already buying up App Store Search Ads

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All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight Feature Jun 16th, 2016

All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight

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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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Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG Interview Aug 25th, 2015

Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG

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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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Not immune but Finland has given GamerGate the cold shoulder

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10 commandments of free-to-play, Mobile Mavens talk Pixel and Daydream View VR, and publishers are already buying up App Store Search Ads Regulars Oct 17th, 2016

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

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How does Brawl Stars monetise? The IAP Inspector Dec 19th, 2018

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What industry trends do mobile indies see on the horizon for 2019? Mobile Mavens Feb 1st, 2019

What industry trends do mobile indies see on the horizon for 2019?

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5 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019's Live Ops Landscape track LIVE OPS LANDSCAPE Feb 15th, 2019

5 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019's Live Ops Landscape track

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Games industry roundup: Why Introversion sold Prison Architect, blockchain's EverDreamSoft rethinks business, and Machinima shuts down ROUNDUP Feb 11th, 2019

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Mobile games industry financials calendar 2019 FINANCIALS CALENDAR Feb 6th, 2019

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Region Focus: Inside Vancouver's top games companies REGION FOCUS Jan 29th, 2019

Region Focus: Inside Vancouver's top games companies

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166 49 top games in soft launch: From Cyber Hunter and Rocket Rabbids to Gears POP! and Candy Crush Tales SOFT LAUNCH Feb 12th, 2019

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Indie Spotlight: Small Island Games on creating puzzle odyssey Haiku Adventure INDIE SPOTLIGHT Feb 5th, 2019

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1 Why Activision Blizzard’s mobile strategy is between a rock and a hard place TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE? Feb 19th, 2019

Why Activision Blizzard’s mobile strategy is between a rock and a hard place

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Teatime Games: "Mobile games have lost the value of playing together" SOCIAL GAMING Feb 20th, 2019

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Is Supercell's Brawl Stars set to rise in the East rather than the West?

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Music apps-focused Gismart wants to double its headcount and enter the publishing business after successful 2018 TUNED IN Feb 7th, 2019

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TabTale on the state of hyper-casual and how it’s found success

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as China officially recognises esports as a profession THE CROWD GOES WILD Feb 15th, 2019

China officially recognises esports as a profession

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Weekly global mobile games charts: Coin Master overtakes Candy Crush Saga in Great Britain and Ireland for top grossing

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7 best practices for using memes in your marketing campaign MARKETING MEMES Aug 30th, 2018

7 best practices for using memes in your marketing campaign

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Top user acquisition strategies for indie games developers

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as How to design effective mobile game monetisation for India INDIAN MAVENS May 8th, 2017

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Does your user acquisition tool make the grade? Use this expert checklist to find out UP TO SCRATCH Mar 30th, 2017

Does your user acquisition tool make the grade? Use this expert checklist to find out

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1 Mobile Games University - How to get a job in games: Interview tips from the experts TALK THE TALK Feb 14th, 2017

Mobile Games University - How to get a job in games: Interview tips from the experts

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Ex-Disney and Pixar animators raised $2m for new Texas mobile studio Tonk Tonk Games TONK YOU VERY MUCH Feb 20th, 2019

Ex-Disney and Pixar animators raised $2m for new Texas mobile studio Tonk Tonk Games

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TinyBuild has big plans for its newly-acquired $15 million in Series-A investment

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

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Tencent

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Last Updated: Aug 17th, 2018
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Founded in November, 1998, Tencent, Inc. has grown into China's largest and most used Internet service portal.

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2017

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2017

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2015

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2015

as Top 30 Chinese Developer 2014

Top 30 Chinese Developer 2014

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2014

Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2014

as Top 30 Chinese Developer 2012

Top 30 Chinese Developer 2012

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as pgbiz Report: Tencent's 2018 was the firm's best ever for investments News Feb 20th, 2019

Report: Tencent's 2018 was the firm's best ever for investments

as pgbiz Facebook top apps publisher for mobile downloads in Q4 2018 News Feb 18th, 2019

Facebook top apps publisher for mobile downloads in Q4 2018

as pgbiz Tencent joins Netmarble consortium in bid for Nexon News Feb 15th, 2019

Tencent joins Netmarble consortium in bid for Nexon

as pgbiz Weekly Global Mobile Games Charts: PUBG Mobile breaks into US top 10 grossing slots News Jan 28th, 2019

Weekly Global Mobile Games Charts: PUBG Mobile breaks into US top 10 grossing slots

as pgbiz Speaker Spotlight: Tencent's Miley Chen on the ACE Publishing Program and premium games in China Interview Jan 20th, 2019

Speaker Spotlight: Tencent's Miley Chen on the ACE Publishing Program and premium games in China

as pgbiz Tencent wants to support your game through its Games Without Borders initiative Comment & Opinion Jan 17th, 2019

Tencent wants to support your game through its Games Without Borders initiative

as pgbiz China approves further 84 games as new regulatory body works its way through backlog of thousands News Jan 10th, 2019

China approves further 84 games as new regulatory body works its way through backlog of thousands

as pgbiz Activision and Tencent’s Call of Duty Legends of War surfaces in Australia on Android News Dec 17th, 2018

Activision and Tencent’s Call of Duty Legends of War surfaces in Australia on Android

as pgbiz Honor of Kings skips past $4 billion in lifetime revenue News Dec 17th, 2018

Honor of Kings skips past $4 billion in lifetime revenue

pgbiz Tencent’s PUBG Mobile crowned best game of the year on Android by Google News Dec 4th, 2018

Tencent’s PUBG Mobile crowned best game of the year on Android by Google

pgbiz Donut County and Gorogoa named iPhone and iPad game of the year by Apple News Dec 4th, 2018

Donut County and Gorogoa named iPhone and iPad game of the year by Apple

as pgbiz Tencent and NetEase saw a 382 per cent increase in international mobile games revenue during 2018 News Dec 3rd, 2018

Tencent and NetEase saw a 382 per cent increase in international mobile games revenue during 2018

pgbiz PUBG Mobile hits 30 million daily active players and 200 million downloads in eight months News Dec 3rd, 2018

PUBG Mobile hits 30 million daily active players and 200 million downloads in eight months

as pgbiz Weekly global mobile game charts: Tencent’s Naruto Online makes a splash in the East News Nov 30th, 2018

Weekly global mobile game charts: Tencent’s Naruto Online makes a splash in the East

as pgbiz Tencent, Zynga and Natural Motion set to speak at India Games Developer Conference 2018 News Nov 29th, 2018

Tencent, Zynga and Natural Motion set to speak at India Games Developer Conference 2018

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