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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?

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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

How does Coin Master monetise?

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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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241 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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241 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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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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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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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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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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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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83 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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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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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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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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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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Outfit7's My Talking Tom Friends exceeds seven million pre-registrations in six days

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11 as Garena's Free Fire records 80 million daily active users WHERE'S THE FIRE? May 18th, 2020

Garena's Free Fire records 80 million daily active users

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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 Square Enix branches out into "entertainment AI" with forming of new company EXPANSION May 29th, 2020

Square Enix branches out into "entertainment AI" with forming of new company

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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

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Little Nightmares scares up two million sales

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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

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019

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From Commodore 64 to hyper-casual: David Darling on the resurgence of simple games based on elegant ideas

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