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Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Peter Moore joins Unity, Takaya Imamura retires from Nintendo, and Keywords appoints new COO Job News Jan 22nd, 2021

Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Peter Moore joins Unity, Takaya Imamura retires from Nintendo, and Keywords appoints new COO

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"There’s work to be done but it’s early days," says POC in Play co-founder Adam Campbell Interview Jan 22nd, 2021

"There’s work to be done but it’s early days," says POC in Play co-founder Adam Campbell

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Indie Mavens: What trends and events will shape the mobile industry in 2021? Mobile Mavens Jan 20th, 2021

Indie Mavens: What trends and events will shape the mobile industry in 2021?

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Hot Five: King charity partnership, five mobile gaming trends, and what you need to know before Playtika's IPO Hot Five Jan 18th, 2021

Hot Five: King charity partnership, five mobile gaming trends, and what you need to know before Playtika's IPO

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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 How Stacky Dash utilised TikTok to achieve 100,000 downloads a day Interview Jan 20th, 2021

How Stacky Dash utilised TikTok to achieve 100,000 downloads a day

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Devolver Digital's Robbie Paterson on how to get a job as a marketing manager Interview Jan 19th, 2021

Devolver Digital's Robbie Paterson on how to get a job as a marketing manager

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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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Indie Mavens: What trends and events will shape the mobile industry in 2021? Mobile Mavens Jan 20th, 2021

Indie Mavens: What trends and events will shape the mobile industry in 2021?

  • Predictions
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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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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Cookie Run: Kingdom WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Jan 22nd, 2021

Mobile Game of the Week: Cookie Run: Kingdom

Update: All 148 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jan 22nd, 2021

Update: All 148 Apple Arcade games available now

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Ten Square Games - from an emerging CEE local gamedev leader to a global player TEN YEARS, TEN SQUARE Jan 22nd, 2021

Ten Square Games - from an emerging CEE local gamedev leader to a global player

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2021 opportunities for growth-minded game publishers THAT'S GROWTH Jan 21st, 2021

2021 opportunities for growth-minded game publishers

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257 50 top games in soft launch: From Crash Bandicoot: On the Run and Project Cars GO to Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales and The Witcher: Monster Slayer SOFT LAUNCH Jan 18th, 2021

50 top games in soft launch: From Crash Bandicoot: On the Run and Project Cars GO to Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales and The Witcher: Monster Slayer

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Introducing Game Drive: the acceleration programme from MY.GAMES and Google that promises to fuel mobile developers GAME DRIVE Jan 13th, 2021

Introducing Game Drive: the acceleration programme from MY.GAMES and Google that promises to fuel mobile developers

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How Voodoo is driving creativity and innovation in the creation of mobile game ads LESSONS FROM VOODOO Jan 13th, 2021

How Voodoo is driving creativity and innovation in the creation of mobile game ads

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Down on the FarmVille: The rise of Zynga's social gaming icon GOODBYE FARMVILLE Jan 5th, 2021

Down on the FarmVille: The rise of Zynga's social gaming icon

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257 50 top games in soft launch: From Crash Bandicoot: On the Run and Project Cars GO to Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales and The Witcher: Monster Slayer SOFT LAUNCH Jan 18th, 2021

50 top games in soft launch: From Crash Bandicoot: On the Run and Project Cars GO to Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales and The Witcher: Monster Slayer

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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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Ten Square Games - from an emerging CEE local gamedev leader to a global player TEN YEARS, TEN SQUARE Jan 22nd, 2021

Ten Square Games - from an emerging CEE local gamedev leader to a global player

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1 Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #5 advent calendar: Day 24: Christmas special offer - 20% off! HAPPY HOLIDAYS Dec 24th, 2020

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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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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Cookie Run: Kingdom WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Jan 22nd, 2021

Mobile Game of the Week: Cookie Run: Kingdom

2021 opportunities for growth-minded game publishers THAT'S GROWTH Jan 21st, 2021

2021 opportunities for growth-minded game publishers

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Get excited for PG Connects Seattle 2020 with these six videos from last year's conference SIX OF THE BEST Mar 9th, 2020

Get excited for PG Connects Seattle 2020 with these six videos from last year's conference

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Ten Square Games - from an emerging CEE local gamedev leader to a global player TEN YEARS, TEN SQUARE Jan 22nd, 2021

Ten Square Games - from an emerging CEE local gamedev leader to a global player

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Master the Meta: The future of gaming subscriptions MASTER THE META Jan 22nd, 2021

Master the Meta: The future of gaming subscriptions

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"There’s work to be done but it’s early days," says POC in Play co-founder Adam Campbell POC IN MOBILE Jan 22nd, 2021

"There’s work to be done but it’s early days," says POC in Play co-founder Adam Campbell

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Courtside Ventures’ partner Kai Bond on their cycle of investment and how raising funds with them can benefit you MEET THE INVESTOR Jan 22nd, 2021

Courtside Ventures’ partner Kai Bond on their cycle of investment and how raising funds with them can benefit you

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2021 opportunities for growth-minded game publishers THAT'S GROWTH Jan 21st, 2021

2021 opportunities for growth-minded game publishers

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Inspired by Jet Set Radio, Apple Arcade racer Warp Drive brought composer Hideki Naganuma onboard MAKING OF Jan 21st, 2021

Inspired by Jet Set Radio, Apple Arcade racer Warp Drive brought composer Hideki Naganuma onboard

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How a partnership with Voodoo gave life to hypercasual indie, Demolish! BREAK IT DOWN Jan 21st, 2021

How a partnership with Voodoo gave life to hypercasual indie, Demolish!

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Mobile's golden goose: Hypercasual your way to business growth GROW YOUR BUSINESS Jan 20th, 2021

Mobile's golden goose: Hypercasual your way to business growth

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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes made up 98% of all revenue from the last five Star Wars mobile games CREDITS WILL DO FINE Jan 18th, 2021

Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes made up 98% of all revenue from the last five Star Wars mobile games

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  • Star Wars
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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

  • Jobs
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Ten Square Games - from an emerging CEE local gamedev leader to a global player TEN YEARS, TEN SQUARE Jan 22nd, 2021

Ten Square Games - from an emerging CEE local gamedev leader to a global player

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as How Stacky Dash utilised TikTok to achieve 100,000 downloads a day INDIE SPOTLIGHT Jan 20th, 2021

How Stacky Dash utilised TikTok to achieve 100,000 downloads a day

  • China
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Devolver Digital's Robbie Paterson on how to get a job as a marketing manager JOBS IN GAMES Jan 19th, 2021

Devolver Digital's Robbie Paterson on how to get a job as a marketing manager

  • Marketing
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Mobile's golden goose: Hypercasual your way to business growth GROW YOUR BUSINESS Jan 20th, 2021

Mobile's golden goose: Hypercasual your way to business growth

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2021 opportunities for growth-minded game publishers THAT'S GROWTH Jan 21st, 2021

2021 opportunities for growth-minded game publishers

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as Finding success in 4x strategy games SPONSORED Jan 19th, 2021

Finding success in 4x strategy games

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Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Peter Moore joins Unity, Takaya Imamura retires from Nintendo, and Keywords appoints new COO TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Jan 22nd, 2021

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Update: All 148 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jan 22nd, 2021

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Tencent secured 31 games-based deals in 2020 DONE DEAL Jan 22nd, 2021

Tencent secured 31 games-based deals in 2020

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Master the Meta: The future of gaming subscriptions MASTER THE META Jan 22nd, 2021

Master the Meta: The future of gaming subscriptions

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62% of parents believe mobile games help mental health MENTALLY STRONG Jan 22nd, 2021

62% of parents believe mobile games help mental health

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Speaker Spotlight: King's Luke Jackson on how mobile is evolving into a serious gaming platform SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Jan 22nd, 2021

Speaker Spotlight: King's Luke Jackson on how mobile is evolving into a serious gaming platform

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1 as Chinese online games portal TapTap shut down for three months as government cracks down on rule breakers TAPPED OUT Mar 8th, 2018

Chinese online games portal TapTap shut down for three months as government cracks down on rule breakers

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Apex Legends accused of 'copying character design' from indie studio NOWWA LIGHTING THE FUSE Jan 21st, 2021

Apex Legends accused of 'copying character design' from indie studio NOWWA

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

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

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A new PUBG Mobile game is on the way TO BATTLE! Jan 19th, 2021

A new PUBG Mobile game is on the way

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EA pulls Plants vs. Zombies 3 from soft launch CEASEFIRE Oct 19th, 2020

EA pulls Plants vs. Zombies 3 from soft launch

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Krafton could be valued at $27.2bn for IPO GOING PUBLIC Jan 19th, 2021

Krafton could be valued at $27.2bn for IPO

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as Chinese games regulators gave approval to 1,411 games last year GAME ON Jan 18th, 2021

Chinese games regulators gave approval to 1,411 games last year

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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

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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

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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

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

User acquisition for beginners: A checklist

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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 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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Team17 secures Golf With Your Friends in £12m acquisition HOLE IN ONE Jan 21st, 2021

Team17 secures Golf With Your Friends in £12m acquisition

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Opera snaps up YoYo Games for $10 million WELCOME TO THE FAMILY Jan 21st, 2021

Opera snaps up YoYo Games for $10 million

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Miniclip snaps up Online Soccer Manager dev Gamebasics WELCOME TO THE FAMILY Jan 20th, 2021

Miniclip snaps up Online Soccer Manager dev Gamebasics

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Digital Bros snaps up Gems of War dev Infinity Plus Two WELCOME TO THE FAMILY Jan 14th, 2021

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Kuato Studios raises $6 million as it launches VR title Panic Room MONEY MONEY MONEY Jan 14th, 2021

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as Tilting Point forms live-publishing partnership with South Korean firm Storytaco NEW PARTNERSHIP Jan 13th, 2021

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IronSource snaps up ad quality measurement platform SOOMLA CHECK THOSE ADS Jan 11th, 2021

IronSource snaps up ad quality measurement platform SOOMLA

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Epic Games snaps up RAD Game Tools WELCOME TO THE FAMILY Jan 8th, 2021

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62% of parents believe mobile games help mental health MENTALLY STRONG Jan 22nd, 2021

62% of parents believe mobile games help mental health

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Voodoo best-placed in casual breakout chart but Among Us still #1 EXCEPTIONALISM Jan 22nd, 2021

Voodoo best-placed in casual breakout chart but Among Us still #1

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Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells storms to $40 million revenue, surpasses Wizards Unite after four months SPELLBINDING Jan 21st, 2021

Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells storms to $40 million revenue, surpasses Wizards Unite after four months

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There are nearly 239 million mobile gamers across the US and Canada PLAY TIME Jan 20th, 2021

There are nearly 239 million mobile gamers across the US and Canada

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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes made up 98% of all revenue from the last five Star Wars mobile games CREDITS WILL DO FINE Jan 18th, 2021

Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes made up 98% of all revenue from the last five Star Wars mobile games

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as Nintendo Switch made up 87% of Japanese console sales last year SWITCH IT UP Jan 18th, 2021

Nintendo Switch made up 87% of Japanese console sales last year

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$33.6 billion was spent on games industry investments last year MONEY MONEY MONEY Jan 15th, 2021

$33.6 billion was spent on games industry investments last year

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Mobile consumers spent $143 billion on apps in 2020 BIG SPENDER Jan 13th, 2021

Mobile consumers spent $143 billion on apps in 2020

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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

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4 Things We Learned at Gamesforum Seattle 2019

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5 The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019 BEST OF 2019 Oct 1st, 2019

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019

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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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5 things we learned at Devcom and Gamescom 2018 GETTING KOLSCH WITH THE INDUSTRY Aug 31st, 2018

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4 The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018 BEST OF 2018 Aug 21st, 2018

The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018

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Total Active App (currently available for download): 4,542,501

Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 213,832

Total Apps Seen in US App Store: 4,756,333

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How can we tackle the games industry's crunch problem? OVERWORKED Oct 26th, 2018

How can we tackle the games industry's crunch problem?

The Mobile Mavens have their say on working conditions

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2 Is Telltale's closure part of a wider industry trend or a cautionary tale? MOBILE MAVENS Oct 3rd, 2018

Is Telltale's closure part of a wider industry trend or a cautionary tale?

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Mobile Mavens' Games of the Year 2017 BEST OF THE BEST Dec 29th, 2017

Mobile Mavens' Games of the Year 2017

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The iPhone turns 10: how can Apple shake up mobile gaming in the next decade? MOBILE MAVENS Jun 30th, 2017

The iPhone turns 10: how can Apple shake up mobile gaming in the next decade?

Our Mobile Mavens ponder the next 10 years for Apple and mobile gaming

  • Mavens
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1 Can mobile games still launch successful multimedia IP? MOBILE MAVENS May 26th, 2017

Can mobile games still launch successful multimedia IP?

Will there be another Angry Birds?

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  • Angry Birds
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Mobile developers react to iOS 10's Limit Ad Tracking changes MOBILE MAVENS Sep 6th, 2016

Mobile developers react to iOS 10's Limit Ad Tracking changes

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  • Mobile Mavens
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1 Does E3 need mobile games more than mobile games need E3? SQUARE PEG, ROUND HOLE? Jun 20th, 2016

Does E3 need mobile games more than mobile games need E3?

Mobile Mavens discuss the mobile dearth at E3 2016

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1 Mobile Mavens reflect on GDC trends and highlights VR EVERYWHERE Mar 25th, 2016

Mobile Mavens reflect on GDC trends and highlights

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Mobile Mavens debate the value of the deal and the future of mobile games in the Activision Blizzard King era WHAT'S NEXT? Nov 4th, 2015

Mobile Mavens debate the value of the deal and the future of mobile games in the Activision Blizzard King era

Big boys at play

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  • Mavens
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as What does Miitomo tell us about Nintendo's mobile strategy? HELLO WORLD Nov 2nd, 2015

What does Miitomo tell us about Nintendo's mobile strategy?

Mobile Mavens on Nintendo's first pass

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  • Mobile Mavens
  • Great Leap
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Mavens debate eternal support versus abandonware for App Store games LIMITED RIGHTS OF OWNERSHIP Oct 27th, 2015

Mavens debate eternal support versus abandonware for App Store games

50 shades of grey

  • Steam
  • App Store
  • Mavens
  • PlayStation
  • Mobile Mavens
  • Consumer Rights
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Will Apple TV be a strong platform for gaming? NEXTGEN WII? Sep 15th, 2015

Will Apple TV be a strong platform for gaming?

Mobile Mavens debate the power of the big screen

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2 Is the $10 billion mobile game franchise inevitable? THINKING BIGGER Aug 31st, 2015

Is the $10 billion mobile game franchise inevitable?

Our Mavens ponder big numbers

  • Mavens
  • Mobile Mavens
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Are we still treating Android as a second class mobile gaming citizen? TIME FOR PARITY? Jun 9th, 2015

Are we still treating Android as a second class mobile gaming citizen?

Our Mavens circle the age old iOS-versus-Android debate

  • Android
  • Mavens
  • Ecosystem
  • Mobile Mavens
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Should your mobile game have an auto-play mode? LOOK NO HANDS Jun 1st, 2015

Should your mobile game have an auto-play mode?

Our Mobile Mavens debate skill and the lack of

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