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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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2017 - the year not much happened in mobile games, says Verto

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Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts

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Seawolf Studios on starting out as an indie developer straight out of university

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What’s Good Games’ Andrea Rene on the state of mobile, Apple Arcade and 12 years in the games industry 'BUSIEST LADY IN THE BIZ' Jun 21st, 2019

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as Tencent partners Chinese live streaming platform Chushou.tv COMING AT YOU LIVE Nov 29th, 2019

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