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Hot Five: Miniclip buys Ilyon, Nifty Games goes on recruiting spree, and how Riot avoided backlash from going mobile Hot Five Jan 13th, 2020

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Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts

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Will subscription services be good for indie game developers?

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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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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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East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal

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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

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The internet reacts to the Nintendo Switch reveal

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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

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Not immune but Finland has given GamerGate the cold shoulder

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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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3 as Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries The Charticle Mar 8th, 2018

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2 Retail virtual reality: What does it need, and where the hell is it? Mobile Mavens Oct 22nd, 2014

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Hot Five: Miniclip buys Ilyon, Nifty Games goes on recruiting spree, and how Riot avoided backlash from going mobile Hot Five Jan 13th, 2020

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Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts Data & Research Dec 4th, 2019

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17 Mobile Game of the Week: Mineblast!! WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Jan 17th, 2020

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32 notable mobile games released in December 2019 you may have missed

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Territory report: data and interviews from the UK games scene MARKET OVERVIEW Dec 21st, 2019

Territory report: data and interviews from the UK games scene

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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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Territory report: data and interviews from the UK games scene MARKET OVERVIEW Dec 21st, 2019

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1 32 notable mobile games released in December 2019 you may have missed NEW GAMES Jan 9th, 2020

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Tencent's TiMi Studios discuss Call of Duty: Mobile, Pokémon partnership, and 2020 trends

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Rogue Games' Bryan Buskas on the future of the games industry

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Developer Spotlight: Tips for success with Instant Games FACEBOOK INSTANT GAMES Jan 18th, 2020

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How Snowman got noticed by Apple and became part of Apple Arcade's launch with Skate City INDIE SPOTLIGHT Jan 15th, 2020

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Rogue Games’ Levi Buchanan on the next trends set to hit the games industry FUTURE TRENDS Jan 17th, 2020

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The offensive and defensive ASO strategies to score high in the gaming league OFFENSIVE & DEFENSIVE ASO Jan 17th, 2020

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Black Desert Mobile reaches 20 million installs, series crosses $1.5 billion revenue

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Shadowgun War Games hits half a million pre-registrations LINING THEM UP Dec 18th, 2019

Shadowgun War Games hits half a million pre-registrations

"We’re thrilled at the response we’ve had since pre-reg launched in mid-November"

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Madfinger Games CEO on why he's happy to compete with Call of Duty: Mobile CROSSHAIR RIVALS Oct 9th, 2019

Madfinger Games CEO on why he's happy to compete with Call of Duty: Mobile

Marek Rabas on his vision's validation

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Shadowgun dev Madfinger hits 200m downloads across entire games portfolio MADNESS Aug 15th, 2018

Shadowgun dev Madfinger hits 200m downloads across entire games portfolio

The Brno-based developer has crafted 11 titles over eight years

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Dead Trigger 2 lands a direct hit on 100 million downloads DEAD GOOD Aug 2nd, 2018

Dead Trigger 2 lands a direct hit on 100 million downloads

The milestone marks the zombie blaster as developer Madfinger’s most successful title to date

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“It only took two days to get Shadowgun Legends on Nintendo Switch” QUICK SWITCH Jun 19th, 2018

“It only took two days to get Shadowgun Legends on Nintendo Switch”

Madfinger CEO Marek Rabas takes to the stage at Unite Berlin 2018

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Three years on: Madfinger on the evolution of Dead Trigger 2 LIVE AND KICKING Apr 27th, 2017

Three years on: Madfinger on the evolution of Dead Trigger 2

CEO Marek Rabas on the game's life so far

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1 Shadowgun Legends will do monetisation "completely differently", says Madfinger A NEW EXPERIENCE Mar 7th, 2017

Shadowgun Legends will do monetisation "completely differently", says Madfinger

No timers, no energy

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  • Brno
  • White Nights
Futureplay, Next Games, and Madfinger on how to make the most of rewarded video ads in your game WANT NOT NEED Jun 1st, 2016

Futureplay, Next Games, and Madfinger on how to make the most of rewarded video ads in your game

A panel of experts talk implementation and psychology

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  • Psychology
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  • View-to-Play
  • Farm Away
  • Unite Europe
Madfinger's Marek Rabas on why F2P games need to focus on emotions not challenges INTERVIEW Aug 12th, 2014

Madfinger's Marek Rabas on why F2P games need to focus on emotions not challenges

A freemium defence

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