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Hot Five: Epic hands out MegaGrants, Konami partners with Shenqu on Castlevania, and how does Battle Legion monetise? Hot Five Aug 3rd, 2020

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

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

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Hot Five: Epic hands out MegaGrants, Konami partners with Shenqu on Castlevania, and how does Battle Legion monetise? Hot Five Aug 3rd, 2020

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Teatime Games CEO Thor Fridriksson candidly reflects on the failures of QuizUp and Plain Vanilla

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Indie Spotlight: How Moving Pieces pitched Dodo Peak for Apple Arcade

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Remote Working: How studying Creative Advertising inadvertently lead to Joy Marianowicz joining Facebook Gaming JOBS IN GAMES Aug 4th, 2020

Remote Working: How studying Creative Advertising inadvertently lead to Joy Marianowicz joining Facebook Gaming

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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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Epic Games has given $42 million to 600 developers as part of its MegaGrants scheme

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Mobile games revenue hit $19.3 billion in Q2 2020 27% INCREASE YOY Aug 3rd, 2020

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as Voodoo’s ad monetisation and the recipe for hyper-casual success HYPER-CASUAL Aug 5th, 2019

Voodoo’s ad monetisation and the recipe for hyper-casual success

Thanks to the Mintegral-led campaigns, the ad fill rate for Voodoo’s titles increased from 30 per cent to a high of 75 per cent

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