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Pre-registration is coming west, Reforged is hiring, and why Activision Blizzard didn't buy Zynga, Glu or Kabam

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Pre-registration is coming west, Reforged is hiring, and why Activision Blizzard didn't buy Zynga, Glu or Kabam

Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll probably have heard about Activision Blizzard's purchase of King last week for $5.9 billion.

It's set tongue waggings, as everyone decided to throw in their opinion on whether the deal will be a success, and if Activision Blizzard will get their money's worth.

Jon Jordan also gave his two cents, talking about why King was an obvious choice compared to other potential candidates for purchase in what was our most popular article of last week.

Elsewhere in the world, young Helsinki-based developer Reforged Studios is looking to expand its team, and its CEO told us about what he's looking for and why the studio is so great to work at.

Staying in Finland, CEO of Tribleflame, Torulf Jernström, detailed why he believes you need $100,000 to prove your free-to-play game will make money.

And finally, we got some insight as to why Adways is trying to bring pre-registration to the west with its PreLaunch.me platform, and we gathered up all the financial information recently posted by some of the big hitters in the mobile space.

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