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Why Heroes of the Dark is Gameloft Sofia's most ambitious project yet Interview Oct 26th, 2021

Why Heroes of the Dark is Gameloft Sofia's most ambitious project yet

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  • Bulgaria
  • Heroes of the Dark
1 PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge News Oct 18th, 2021

PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge

  • Podcast
1 How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye Feature Oct 5th, 2021

How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye

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1 PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook Comment & Opinion Sep 23rd, 2021

PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook

  • Advertising
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Mobile Mavens: Reaction to China's new restrictions on children gaming Mobile Mavens Aug 31st, 2021

Mobile Mavens: Reaction to China's new restrictions on children gaming

  • China
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Hot Five: Everdale, Everdale, Everdale... Hot Five Aug 30th, 2021

Hot Five: Everdale, Everdale, Everdale...

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10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Aug 13th, 2021

10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise? The IAP Inspector Oct 26th, 2020

How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise?

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  • Hot Wheels
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?

  • Charticle
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  • Pokemon
  • Pokemon Masters
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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

  • Sponsored
  • App Annie Series
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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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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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  • Diversity
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

  • Week That Was
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

  • F2P
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  • Monetizer
  • Reciprocity
  • Retention
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

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

Why Heroes of the Dark is Gameloft Sofia's most ambitious project yet Interview Oct 26th, 2021

Why Heroes of the Dark is Gameloft Sofia's most ambitious project yet

  • Making Of
  • Bulgaria
  • Heroes of the Dark
How LEGO Star Wars Battles was reinvented brick by brick Interview Sep 28th, 2021

How LEGO Star Wars Battles was reinvented brick by brick

  • Making Of
  • Brighton
  • Apple Arcade
  • LEGO Star Wars
13 How does Coin Master monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 7th, 2018

How does Coin Master monetise?

  • Monetisation
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  • IAP Inspector
  • Monetisation Design
1 How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye Feature Oct 5th, 2021

How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye

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1 PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook Comment & Opinion Sep 23rd, 2021

PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook

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10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Aug 13th, 2021

10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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  • Jobs in Games
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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

  • F2P
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  • Monetizer
  • Reciprocity
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Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital DONE DEAL Oct 27th, 2021

Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital

  • Acquisition
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  • Bristol
  • United Kingdom
  • Done Deal
How ASO influences metrics: a closer look OPTIMIZE THIS Oct 26th, 2021

How ASO influences metrics: a closer look

  • App Store Optimisation
262 51 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded SOFT LAUNCH Oct 25th, 2021

51 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded

  • Soft Launch
13 Mobile Game of the Week: Townscaper WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Oct 22nd, 2021

Mobile Game of the Week: Townscaper

Hutch head of art Ravinder Singh Ruprai on challenging the status quo POC IN MOBILE Oct 21st, 2021

Hutch head of art Ravinder Singh Ruprai on challenging the status quo

  • United Kingdom
  • POC in Mobile
1 6 top tips for game devs to adapt to app store and privacy regulation changes WHAT TO DO Oct 13th, 2021

6 top tips for game devs to adapt to app store and privacy regulation changes

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  • Best Practice
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1 How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye MAKING OF Oct 5th, 2021

How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye

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  • Taiwan
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How LEGO Star Wars Battles was reinvented brick by brick MAKING OF Sep 28th, 2021

How LEGO Star Wars Battles was reinvented brick by brick

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262 51 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded SOFT LAUNCH Oct 25th, 2021

51 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded

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Hutch head of art Ravinder Singh Ruprai on challenging the status quo POC IN MOBILE Oct 21st, 2021

Hutch head of art Ravinder Singh Ruprai on challenging the status quo

  • United Kingdom
  • POC in Mobile
13 Mobile Game of the Week: Townscaper WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Oct 22nd, 2021

Mobile Game of the Week: Townscaper

as This Week In China: Second wave of game approvals goes through, and Tencent files the first 5G-related lawsuit in the country THIS WEEK IN CHINA Apr 3rd, 2020

This Week In China: Second wave of game approvals goes through, and Tencent files the first 5G-related lawsuit in the country

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  • Cloud
  • Animal Crossing
  • Hypercasual
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How ASO influences metrics: a closer look OPTIMIZE THIS Oct 26th, 2021

How ASO influences metrics: a closer look

  • App Store Optimisation
How LEGO Star Wars Battles was reinvented brick by brick MAKING OF Sep 28th, 2021

How LEGO Star Wars Battles was reinvented brick by brick

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  • Apple Arcade
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Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital DONE DEAL Oct 27th, 2021

Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital

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  • Bristol
  • United Kingdom
  • Done Deal
13 How does Coin Master monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Feb 7th, 2018

How does Coin Master monetise?

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The Play-to-Earn evolution NEW TRICKS Oct 27th, 2021

The Play-to-Earn evolution

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Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital DONE DEAL Oct 27th, 2021

Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital

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  • Sheffield
  • Bristol
  • United Kingdom
  • Done Deal
Why Mamboo Games is making the leap from hypercasual to hybrid-casual BUSINESS TIME Oct 26th, 2021

Why Mamboo Games is making the leap from hypercasual to hybrid-casual

  • Analytics
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  • Hypercasual
  • Hybrid Casual
Why Heroes of the Dark is Gameloft Sofia's most ambitious project yet MAKING OF Oct 26th, 2021

Why Heroes of the Dark is Gameloft Sofia's most ambitious project yet

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2 How N3TWORK grew Idle Inn Tycoon’s revenue to $2 million in three months IDLE WORLD Oct 21st, 2021

How N3TWORK grew Idle Inn Tycoon’s revenue to $2 million in three months

  • Monetisation
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  • Sponsored
  • Idle Game
Hutch head of art Ravinder Singh Ruprai on challenging the status quo POC IN MOBILE Oct 21st, 2021

Hutch head of art Ravinder Singh Ruprai on challenging the status quo

  • United Kingdom
  • POC in Mobile
How to step up your mobile game advertising with influencer marketing INFLUENCER INSIGHT Oct 20th, 2021

How to step up your mobile game advertising with influencer marketing

  • Sponsored
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The power of brand injections in mobile games BRAND ENGAGEMENT Oct 18th, 2021

The power of brand injections in mobile games

  • IP
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Hutch head of art Ravinder Singh Ruprai on challenging the status quo POC IN MOBILE Oct 21st, 2021

Hutch head of art Ravinder Singh Ruprai on challenging the status quo

  • United Kingdom
  • POC in Mobile
2 How N3TWORK grew Idle Inn Tycoon’s revenue to $2 million in three months IDLE WORLD Oct 21st, 2021

How N3TWORK grew Idle Inn Tycoon’s revenue to $2 million in three months

  • Monetisation
  • Growth
  • Sponsored
  • Idle Game
Why Heroes of the Dark is Gameloft Sofia's most ambitious project yet MAKING OF Oct 26th, 2021

Why Heroes of the Dark is Gameloft Sofia's most ambitious project yet

  • Making Of
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  • Heroes of the Dark
How LEGO Star Wars Battles was reinvented brick by brick MAKING OF Sep 28th, 2021

How LEGO Star Wars Battles was reinvented brick by brick

  • Making Of
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  • Apple Arcade
  • LEGO Star Wars
Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital DONE DEAL Oct 27th, 2021

Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital

  • Acquisition
  • Sheffield
  • Bristol
  • United Kingdom
  • Done Deal
How Remedy Quest teaches players about Covid-19 and viruses MAKING OF Sep 21st, 2021

How Remedy Quest teaches players about Covid-19 and viruses

  • Making Of
  • Scotland
  • Coronavirus
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Run of Life indie dev Tarek Mongy on how to have a hypercasual hit HYPERCASUAL HELP Sep 16th, 2021

Run of Life indie dev Tarek Mongy on how to have a hypercasual hit

  • Publishing
  • Development
  • Sponsored
  • Hypercasual
  • Egypt
Why Mamboo Games is making the leap from hypercasual to hybrid-casual BUSINESS TIME Oct 26th, 2021

Why Mamboo Games is making the leap from hypercasual to hybrid-casual

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  • Minsk
  • Hypercasual
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US social casino users still spending post-pandemic; Q2 2021 was a record $260 million KA-CHING Oct 27th, 2021

US social casino users still spending post-pandemic; Q2 2021 was a record $260 million

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Explore shared visions, values and company culture at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital NEXT

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Niantic and Nintendo launch Pikmin Bloom BLOOMIN' LOVELY Oct 27th, 2021

Niantic and Nintendo launch Pikmin Bloom

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UK-based New Star Games takes US by storm with Retro Bowl

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Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital DONE DEAL Oct 27th, 2021

Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital

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Animoca-backed Gamee launches Arc8, its blockchain mobile gaming platform REWARDED Oct 26th, 2021

Animoca-backed Gamee launches Arc8, its blockchain mobile gaming platform

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Admix raises $25 million to monetise the metaverse NEW WAYS Oct 26th, 2021

Admix raises $25 million to monetise the metaverse

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  • Funding
  • Series B
  • Metaverse
  • Adtech
Next Games and Netflix launch Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales NEWS Oct 26th, 2021

Next Games and Netflix launch Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales

  • Helsinki
  • RPG
  • Sci-Fi
  • Puzzle
  • Netflix
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Going mobile-first, Facebook Gaming now has 45 cloud games available MOBILE FIRST Oct 21st, 2021

Going mobile-first, Facebook Gaming now has 45 cloud games available

  • Facebook
  • Cloud Gaming
Wooga's Switchcraft leads the way for casual puzzle mobile game diversity HIGHLIGHTING DIVERSITY Oct 22nd, 2021

Wooga's Switchcraft leads the way for casual puzzle mobile game diversity

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  • Switchcraft
Garena leads $12 milllion round into Kazoo Games BUZZING Oct 21st, 2021

Garena leads $12 milllion round into Kazoo Games

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Play Store subscription rev share lowered to 15% from January 1 SLASH & EARN Oct 22nd, 2021

Play Store subscription rev share lowered to 15% from January 1

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as ByteDance lays off Ohayoo employees following CCP gaming crackdown U-TURN Oct 25th, 2021

ByteDance lays off Ohayoo employees following CCP gaming crackdown

  • China
  • Redundancies
  • Beijing
  • Bytedance
1 Roblox announces World Party, its first metaverse music festival ROBLOX RAVE Oct 21st, 2021

Roblox announces World Party, its first metaverse music festival

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  • USA
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  • Festival
as PUBG: New State will launch worldwide on November 11 HEIR APPARENT Oct 22nd, 2021

PUBG: New State will launch worldwide on November 11

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Next Games and Netflix launch Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales NEWS Oct 26th, 2021

Next Games and Netflix launch Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales

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1 How much are your players really worth? RESIDUAL VALUE CALCULATOR Sep 8th, 2021

How much are your players really worth?

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What is CFO Resources? MONEY TALK Jun 1st, 2021

What is CFO Resources?

  • Financials
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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

  • Mobile Games University
1 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

  • Jobs
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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

  • Jobs
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2 User acquisition for beginners: A checklist GUIDE TO UA May 21st, 2019

User acquisition for beginners: A checklist

  • User Acquisition
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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 three: Structuring an investment deal ART OF THE DEAL Apr 26th, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part three: Structuring an investment deal

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1 as IronSource acquires mobile marketing outfit Bidalgo MARKETING MAGNIFICATION Oct 25th, 2021

IronSource acquires mobile marketing outfit Bidalgo

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  • Israel
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Garena leads $12 milllion round into Kazoo Games BUZZING Oct 21st, 2021

Garena leads $12 milllion round into Kazoo Games

  • Midcore
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  • Series A
  • Los Angeles
Social gaming platform Piepacker raises $12 million for mobile expansion PACKING THE PIE Oct 21st, 2021

Social gaming platform Piepacker raises $12 million for mobile expansion

  • Funding
  • Series A
  • London
  • Cloud Gaming
as Animoca Brands raises a further $65 million at +$2 billion valuation BOOSTING BLOCKCHAIN Oct 20th, 2021

Animoca Brands raises a further $65 million at +$2 billion valuation

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  • Hong Kong
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Scopely acquires social casino outfit GSN Games for $1 billion FULL HOUSE Oct 18th, 2021

Scopely acquires social casino outfit GSN Games for $1 billion

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IronSource acquires Tapjoy for $400 million NEWS Oct 15th, 2021

IronSource acquires Tapjoy for $400 million

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Lucid Sight raises $2.6 million to bring Colyseus Arena multiplayer tech to the cloud SPREAD THE LOAD Oct 14th, 2021

Lucid Sight raises $2.6 million to bring Colyseus Arena multiplayer tech to the cloud

  • Multiplayer
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  • Cloud
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Murka to acquire solitaire development company Mobile Deluxe CARD SHARP Oct 14th, 2021

Murka to acquire solitaire development company Mobile Deluxe

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US social casino users still spending post-pandemic; Q2 2021 was a record $260 million KA-CHING Oct 27th, 2021

US social casino users still spending post-pandemic; Q2 2021 was a record $260 million

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Wooga's Switchcraft leads the way for casual puzzle mobile game diversity HIGHLIGHTING DIVERSITY Oct 22nd, 2021

Wooga's Switchcraft leads the way for casual puzzle mobile game diversity

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Power in numbers: Improbable on why you should enable crossplay BY THE NUMBERS Oct 21st, 2021

Power in numbers: Improbable on why you should enable crossplay

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PUBG Mobile is the most downloaded mobile game worldwide following the release of Battlegrounds India DOWNLOAD DEMOGRAPHICS Oct 20th, 2021

PUBG Mobile is the most downloaded mobile game worldwide following the release of Battlegrounds India

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App Annie’s Game IQ gets smarter GRANULARITY GREATNESS Oct 19th, 2021

App Annie’s Game IQ gets smarter

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Zynga's High Heels hits one hundred million downloads FASHION SENSE Oct 15th, 2021

Zynga's High Heels hits one hundred million downloads

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81% of media buyers plan in-game ad spending increase over next 12 months AD INSIGHT Oct 13th, 2021

81% of media buyers plan in-game ad spending increase over next 12 months

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Get your holiday season all wrapped up WHAT'S NEXT? Oct 13th, 2021

Get your holiday season all wrapped up

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021 BEST OF 2021 Sep 6th, 2021

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021

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1 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 MOST READ 2019 Dec 31st, 2019

Supercell, Supercell, and Supercell: The most read news stories of 2019

4 Things We Learned at Gamesforum Seattle 2019 EVENT RECAP Nov 5th, 2019

4 Things We Learned at Gamesforum Seattle 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

Disney shuts down Star Wars: Rivals, Honor of Kings takes $3.5bn in revenue and Tencent unveil Lego Cube

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125 million downloads later narrative game Episode is ready to fend off new competition POCKET STORIES May 24th, 2018

125 million downloads later narrative game Episode is ready to fend off new competition

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How Episode uses TV and Hollywood partnerships to grow its mobile audience FROM MOVIES TO MOBILE Jan 3rd, 2017

How Episode uses TV and Hollywood partnerships to grow its mobile audience

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