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Hot Five: Garena Free Fire hits 80 million DAUs, Defold goes open source, and Ubisoft sues Apple and Google Hot Five May 25th, 2020

Hot Five: Garena Free Fire hits 80 million DAUs, Defold goes open source, and Ubisoft sues Apple and Google

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Indie Mavens: How to work from home as a developer and lessons learned from the pandemic Mobile Mavens Apr 28th, 2020

Indie Mavens: How to work from home as a developer and lessons learned from the pandemic

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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?

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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

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell News Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay Feature Oct 15th, 2019

How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot Interview Oct 8th, 2019

Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot

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

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

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

Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?

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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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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot Interview Oct 8th, 2019

Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell News Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay Feature Oct 15th, 2019

How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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1 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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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

Hot Five: Garena Free Fire hits 80 million DAUs, Defold goes open source, and Ubisoft sues Apple and Google Hot Five May 25th, 2020

Hot Five: Garena Free Fire hits 80 million DAUs, Defold goes open source, and Ubisoft sues Apple and Google

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

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

How does Rules of Survival monetise?

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Games vs Covid-19: Isle of Man TT Race 2020 switches to gaming tournament WHAT'S UP? May 27th, 2020

Games vs Covid-19: Isle of Man TT Race 2020 switches to gaming tournament

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Update: All 122 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY May 26th, 2020

Update: All 122 Apple Arcade games available now

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240 53 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Casual and Hay Day Pop to Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad SOFT LAUNCH May 26th, 2020

53 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Casual and Hay Day Pop to Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad

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Interview: Why My.Games is shifting its focus to hypercasual HYPERCASUAL SHIFT May 22nd, 2020

Interview: Why My.Games is shifting its focus to hypercasual

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Super Fowlst 2 WHAT WE'RE PLAYING May 22nd, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Super Fowlst 2

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The Voodoo Approach: How the world's biggest hyper-casual publisher makes its hit games THE VOODOO APPROACH May 20th, 2020

The Voodoo Approach: How the world's biggest hyper-casual publisher makes its hit games

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Opinion: Android has finally reached its tipping point 10 YEARS ON May 19th, 2020

Opinion: Android has finally reached its tipping point

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2 PocketGamer.biz's ultimate remote working resource guide HOW TO ROCK REMOTE May 18th, 2020

PocketGamer.biz's ultimate remote working resource guide

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240 53 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Casual and Hay Day Pop to Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad SOFT LAUNCH May 26th, 2020

53 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Casual and Hay Day Pop to Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay LIVEOP LEARNINGS Oct 15th, 2019

How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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Interview: Why My.Games is shifting its focus to hypercasual HYPERCASUAL SHIFT May 22nd, 2020

Interview: Why My.Games is shifting its focus to hypercasual

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Super Fowlst 2 WHAT WE'RE PLAYING May 22nd, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Super Fowlst 2

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Updated: 22 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Dec 19th, 2019

Updated: 22 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales

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The Voodoo Approach: How the world's biggest hyper-casual publisher makes its hit games THE VOODOO APPROACH May 20th, 2020

The Voodoo Approach: How the world's biggest hyper-casual publisher makes its hit games

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Update: All 122 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY May 26th, 2020

Update: All 122 Apple Arcade games available now

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

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Interview: Why Poki is partnering with Nitrome and more to preserve the Flash games of old PRESERVING THE PAST May 29th, 2020

Interview: Why Poki is partnering with Nitrome and more to preserve the Flash games of old

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The Voodoo Approach: Tower Run creator Lawson He on why partnering with a publisher is crucial THE LAWSON HE APPROACH May 29th, 2020

The Voodoo Approach: Tower Run creator Lawson He on why partnering with a publisher is crucial

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Indie Spotlight: Efecto Studios CEO and co-founder Eivar Rojas Castro on bouncing back from closure BACK FROM THE BRINK May 28th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: Efecto Studios CEO and co-founder Eivar Rojas Castro on bouncing back from closure

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Here's how retargeting supports app growth for gaming RETARGETING May 28th, 2020

Here's how retargeting supports app growth for gaming

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Remote Working: Clipwire Games' James Aiken on developing from home after just relocating JOBS IN GAMES May 27th, 2020

Remote Working: Clipwire Games' James Aiken on developing from home after just relocating

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The Voodoo Approach: How AquaPark.io developer Cassette grew with help from the hyper-casual publisher THE CASSETTE APPROACH May 27th, 2020

The Voodoo Approach: How AquaPark.io developer Cassette grew with help from the hyper-casual publisher

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1 Interview: Why Scopely and PierPlay spent three years perfecting Scrabble GO SCRABBLE GO SUCCESS May 26th, 2020

Interview: Why Scopely and PierPlay spent three years perfecting Scrabble GO

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as The Big Indie Interviews: Willem Delventhal on making award winning games for cats INDIE VIEW May 25th, 2020

The Big Indie Interviews: Willem Delventhal on making award winning games for cats

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38 Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire? WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE May 25th, 2020

Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire?

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17 Why are people still playing Coin Master? KEEP SPINNING Mar 31st, 2020

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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot JOBS IN GAMES Oct 8th, 2019

Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot

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1 How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? SHARP SHINY THINGS Mar 25th, 2019

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

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Interview: Why My.Games is shifting its focus to hypercasual HYPERCASUAL SHIFT May 22nd, 2020

Interview: Why My.Games is shifting its focus to hypercasual

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1 Interview: Why Scopely and PierPlay spent three years perfecting Scrabble GO SCRABBLE GO SUCCESS May 26th, 2020

Interview: Why Scopely and PierPlay spent three years perfecting Scrabble GO

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Remote Working: Clipwire Games' James Aiken on developing from home after just relocating JOBS IN GAMES May 27th, 2020

Remote Working: Clipwire Games' James Aiken on developing from home after just relocating

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as The Big Indie Interviews: Willem Delventhal on making award winning games for cats INDIE VIEW May 25th, 2020

The Big Indie Interviews: Willem Delventhal on making award winning games for cats

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Subway Surfers tops monthly average users for EMEA across Q1 2020

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Outfit7's My Talking Tom Friends exceeds seven million pre-registrations in six days POPULAR CAT May 28th, 2020

Outfit7's My Talking Tom Friends exceeds seven million pre-registrations in six days

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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Garena's Free Fire records 80 million daily active users

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IronSource opens up Facebook Audience Network to its in-app bidding platform LevelPlay BETA ONLY May 27th, 2020

IronSource opens up Facebook Audience Network to its in-app bidding platform LevelPlay

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Match-three games dominate US iOS market at 21% of revenue THREE IS A MAGIC NUMBER May 28th, 2020

Match-three games dominate US iOS market at 21% of revenue

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as This Week In China: NetEase's big reveals from its 520 conference and Chess Rush lands in China THIS WEEK IN CHINA May 22nd, 2020

This Week In China: NetEase's big reveals from its 520 conference and Chess Rush lands in China

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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Sega and Paramount Pictures reteam for Sonic the Hedgehog film sequel

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as Tencent acquires 20% stake in Japanese games firm Marvelous SPLASHING CASH May 26th, 2020

Tencent acquires 20% stake in Japanese games firm Marvelous

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MeeWow Games and Supergaming gain access to N3twork’s $50 million Scale Partnership

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MyGamez partners with Small Giant Games on Empires & Puzzles' Chinese Android launch

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Advertisement platform AdInMo secures $500,000 in funding

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Apple acquires virtual reality specialist NextVR

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Match-three games dominate US iOS market at 21% of revenue THREE IS A MAGIC NUMBER May 28th, 2020

Match-three games dominate US iOS market at 21% of revenue

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The record for weekly mobile game downloads has been broken during the coronavirus outbreak MOBILE DOMINANCE May 27th, 2020

The record for weekly mobile game downloads has been broken during the coronavirus outbreak

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Little Nightmares scares up two million sales WAKE UP May 27th, 2020

Little Nightmares scares up two million sales

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SuperData: Games spending cracks $10.5 billion in April, mobile up 14% 17% OVERALL GROWTH May 26th, 2020

SuperData: Games spending cracks $10.5 billion in April, mobile up 14%

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US games spending achieved an all-time quarterly high in Q1 2020 MONEY MONEY MONEY May 18th, 2020

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Former King chairman Mel Morris tops the 2020 UK gaming rich list MEL-LIONARE May 15th, 2020

Former King chairman Mel Morris tops the 2020 UK gaming rich list

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Fortnite battles its way to $1 billion on mobile in two years BUILDING BANK May 15th, 2020

Fortnite battles its way to $1 billion on mobile in two years

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as App Annie: PUBG Mobile generates largest consumer spend overseas for China-based developers in Q1 2020 WINNER WINNER May 13th, 2020

App Annie: PUBG Mobile generates largest consumer spend overseas for China-based developers in Q1 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

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 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

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UK developer Hutch opens new studio in Canada GLOBAL EXPANSION Aug 15th, 2017

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Hot Wheels: Race Off developer Hutch raises $5.5 million in investment HUTCH INVESTMENT Feb 2nd, 2017

Hot Wheels: Race Off developer Hutch raises $5.5 million in investment

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