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Trouble at HQ Trivia studio, Oculus staffing up for AR Glasses, and Clash of Clans a US top grosser thanks to Gold Pass Hot Five Apr 23rd, 2019

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Monetizer Mavens on what Apple Arcade needs to do to be successful Mobile Mavens Apr 3rd, 2019

Monetizer Mavens on what Apple Arcade needs to do to be successful

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1 as Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? The Charticle Apr 2nd, 2019

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

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How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? The IAP Inspector Mar 25th, 2019

How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise?

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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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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

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

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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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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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Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm News Sep 15th, 2014

Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm

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1 as Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? The Charticle Apr 2nd, 2019

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

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4 as How does Rules of Survival monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 23rd, 2018

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

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3 as 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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How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? The IAP Inspector Mar 25th, 2019

How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise?

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Trouble at HQ Trivia studio, Oculus staffing up for AR Glasses, and Clash of Clans a US top grosser thanks to Gold Pass Hot Five Apr 23rd, 2019

Trouble at HQ Trivia studio, Oculus staffing up for AR Glasses, and Clash of Clans a US top grosser thanks to Gold Pass

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Inside Kolibri's strategy for success, Zynga soft-launches Game of Thrones Slots Casino, and Clash of Clans gets Gold Pass Hot Five Apr 15th, 2019

Inside Kolibri's strategy for success, Zynga soft-launches Game of Thrones Slots Casino, and Clash of Clans gets Gold Pass

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Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm News Sep 15th, 2014

Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm

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187 54 top games in soft launch: From Game of Thrones Slots Casino and Angry Birds Pop 2 to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Candy Crush Tales SOFT LAUNCH Apr 23rd, 2019

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Games industry roundup: Why Dodge Roll has parted ways with Enter the Gungeon, and Tencent does its own blockchain-based Pokemon Go ROUNDUP Apr 23rd, 2019

Games industry roundup: Why Dodge Roll has parted ways with Enter the Gungeon, and Tencent does its own blockchain-based Pokemon Go

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5 best and funniest Reggie Fils-Aime moments Nintendo fans will remember END OF AN ERA Apr 15th, 2019

5 best and funniest Reggie Fils-Aime moments Nintendo fans will remember

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Meet 31 of the top most exciting Washington state games companies COMPANY ROUNDUP Apr 12th, 2019

Meet 31 of the top most exciting Washington state games companies

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How Wargaming manages a game project across two studios half a world away ALL AROUND THE WORLD Apr 9th, 2019

How Wargaming manages a game project across two studios half a world away

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How Kolibri went from minimum viable product to 70 million installs for its Idle Tycoon games KEEPING LEAN Apr 8th, 2019

How Kolibri went from minimum viable product to 70 million installs for its Idle Tycoon games

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11 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects London's Superstar Sessions SUPERSTAR SESSIONS Apr 4th, 2019

11 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects London's Superstar Sessions

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

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

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3 as 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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20 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Apr 3rd, 2019

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How Kolibri went from minimum viable product to 70 million installs for its Idle Tycoon games KEEPING LEAN Apr 8th, 2019

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5 best and funniest Reggie Fils-Aime moments Nintendo fans will remember END OF AN ERA Apr 15th, 2019

5 best and funniest Reggie Fils-Aime moments Nintendo fans will remember

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Meet 31 of the top most exciting Washington state games companies COMPANY ROUNDUP Apr 12th, 2019

Meet 31 of the top most exciting Washington state games companies

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Four years on: Dodreams CEO Erik Pöntiskoski on why Drive Ahead is showing no signs of slowing down LIVE AND KICKING Apr 18th, 2019

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How to succeed in Iran on Cafe Bazaar CAFE BAZAAR Apr 18th, 2019

How to succeed in Iran on Cafe Bazaar

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Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff on his vision to become the ‘Epic of live ops’ GEARING UP Apr 17th, 2019

Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff on his vision to become the ‘Epic of live ops’

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Indie Spotlight: Panzerdog on making Tacticool a $1 million a month hit INDIE SPOTLIGHT Apr 17th, 2019

Indie Spotlight: Panzerdog on making Tacticool a $1 million a month hit

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Speaker Spotlight: Masquerade Media president Dayan Paul thinks the female gaming audience is still underserved INTERVIEW Apr 17th, 2019

Speaker Spotlight: Masquerade Media president Dayan Paul thinks the female gaming audience is still underserved

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Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio JOBS IN GAMES Apr 16th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio

  • Jobs
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Will Apple successfully capture the midcore gamer market with Apple Arcade? APPLE ARCADE Apr 15th, 2019

Will Apple successfully capture the midcore gamer market with Apple Arcade?

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as Defending against the dark arts of mobile game hacking with AppSealing HACK BLOCKER Apr 12th, 2019

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Four years on: Dodreams CEO Erik Pöntiskoski on why Drive Ahead is showing no signs of slowing down LIVE AND KICKING Apr 18th, 2019

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1 as Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? EASTERN STARS Apr 2nd, 2019

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

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Indie Spotlight: Panzerdog on making Tacticool a $1 million a month hit INDIE SPOTLIGHT Apr 17th, 2019

Indie Spotlight: Panzerdog on making Tacticool a $1 million a month hit

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How to succeed in Iran on Cafe Bazaar

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as 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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Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio JOBS IN GAMES Apr 16th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio

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Speaker Spotlight: Masquerade Media president Dayan Paul thinks the female gaming audience is still underserved INTERVIEW Apr 17th, 2019

Speaker Spotlight: Masquerade Media president Dayan Paul thinks the female gaming audience is still underserved

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Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent’s Let’s Hunt Monsters storms China’s free downloads rankings

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Mobile picks up $65m of PUBG Corp's $920m sales in 2018

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China's biggest live-streaming platform Douyu files for $500 million IPO in the US

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Tencent extends its digital lock age cap to 16 in China

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as Keywords snaps up work-for-hire mobile development studio Wizcorp for $1m ACQUISITION NEWS Apr 23rd, 2019

Keywords snaps up work-for-hire mobile development studio Wizcorp for $1m

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Is Machine Zone really worth $9 billion?

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Oculus staffing up for new augmented reality glasses AUGMENTED OCULUS Apr 16th, 2019

Oculus staffing up for new augmented reality glasses

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Niantic soft-launches Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in New Zealand WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA Apr 17th, 2019

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Supercell’s Brawl Stars is making $50 million a month

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser thanks to new Gold Pass CHARTS Apr 15th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser thanks to new Gold Pass

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Brawl Stars TV lets users watch top player matches in real-time

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as China and South Korea are driving Eve Online into the future DEVELOP REBOOT Apr 16th, 2019

China and South Korea are driving Eve Online into the future

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The state of the Finland’s €2 billion-plus games industry REGIONAL REPORT Apr 17th, 2019

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

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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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Financing your indie games development studio - Part one STUDIO FINANCE Mar 29th, 2019

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1 A guide to barebones monetisation in mobile games MONETISATION DESIGN Nov 14th, 2018

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

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Top user acquisition strategies for indie games developers

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as Keywords snaps up work-for-hire mobile development studio Wizcorp for $1m ACQUISITION NEWS Apr 23rd, 2019

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent’s Let’s Hunt Monsters storms China’s free downloads rankings CHARTS Apr 23rd, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent’s Let’s Hunt Monsters storms China’s free downloads rankings

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as Newzoo: Tencent responsible for 15% of 2018's global games revenue MONEY MONEY MONEY Apr 18th, 2019

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as Global mobile gaming revenue hit $14.6 billion in Q1 2019 GROW Apr 17th, 2019

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1 as Supercell’s Brawl Stars is making $50 million a month MOBILE STAR Apr 17th, 2019

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The state of the Finland’s €2 billion-plus games industry REGIONAL REPORT Apr 17th, 2019

The state of the Finland’s €2 billion-plus games industry

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser thanks to new Gold Pass CHARTS Apr 15th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser thanks to new Gold Pass

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Voodoo racks up two billion mobile game downloads BIG MILESTONE Apr 9th, 2019

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Sniper Strike: Special Ops shoots past 20 million worldwide downloads NEW MILESTONE Apr 9th, 2019

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

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