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Alone in the dark: The making of Home A Unique Horror Adventure
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Stateside: Don't try and fight your pirates make the most of them
Making lemonade from stolen lemons
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Lady Shotgun's Anna Marsh on literal actions
Chart of the Week: 37% of top app publishers have already floated
Encouragement for King, Kabam and Rovio
The Charticle: Bananaaaa! Potato-naaaa! The slapstick rise of Despicable Me: Minions Rush
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Introducing Monetizer: A new ranking system for monetization efficiencies
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Adeven asks: Do you know when to burst and when to target?
Christian Henschel takes a holistic view on analytics
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Opinion: Why your next hire should be a Chief Psychology Officer
Bridging the gap between gameplay and retention
Stateside: Indies, are you yearning for an App Store revolution?
Change needs to begin from the bottom up
Why all mobile developers need to understand Dr. Robert Cialdini's Rule of Reciprocity
SessionM digs into the basis of monetisation
Reading List: Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away
An industry primer
Sponsored feature: Leading smartphone ad agency CyberZ considers new gaming trends in Japan
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The Charticle: Leading on iOS, Android now accounts for around 40% of CSR Racing's sales
Distimo estimates Google Play is 8.75% of lifetime sales
Hot Five: GREE scales back in the west, how to top Thomas Was Alone, and why Double Fine has damaged Kickstarter
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Chart of the Week: How localisation tripled Clash of Clans' Japanese revenue
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Where's My Mickey? are the highest-reviewed iOS and Android games of Q2 2013
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Sponsored feature: Why Immersion is leading by example to bring better tactile feedback to games
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Happy Birthday App Store, says Oscar Clark. You transformed our industry
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Stateside: Double Fine debacle threatens legitimacy of entire crowdfunding model
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James Kaye asks if you're equiped for the modern age
How They Turn the Screw: A Data-Driven Approach to Ranking F2P Monetisation Efficiencies
Down, dirty and aggressive with zip gun analysis
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Brighton Week: Why Brighton's mobile mastery makes it the perfect destination for Develop
Boss Alien, Relentless et al speak out
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Opinion: Why I'll never back a Kickstarter that takes a dump on gay marriage
This is no game
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Is entertainment value enough to save the day?
Stateside: Why Google should shelve its plans for an Android unconsole
Giant should stick to what it does best
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Age of gamers passively consuming games is over
The Charticle: 17 million-strong Fast & Furious 6 races away on iPhone, doubling iPad revenue
Generating over $2 million in a month in US alone
Hot Five: Windows Phone winning against BlackBerry, XCOM's x-rated RRP, and the three new kings of mobile gaming are crowned
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