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Inside Kolibri's strategy for success, Zynga soft-launches Game of Thrones Slots Casino, and Clash of Clans gets Gold Pass Hot Five Apr 15th, 2019

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1 as Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? The Charticle Apr 2nd, 2019

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

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How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? The IAP Inspector Mar 25th, 2019

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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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10 commandments of free-to-play, Mobile Mavens talk Pixel and Daydream View VR, and publishers are already buying up App Store Search Ads Regulars Oct 17th, 2016

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All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight

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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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Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG Interview Aug 25th, 2015

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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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3 Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14 Monetizer Jan 30th, 2015

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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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Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm

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1 as Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? The Charticle Apr 2nd, 2019

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How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? The IAP Inspector Mar 25th, 2019

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Monetizer Mavens on what Apple Arcade needs to do to be successful Mobile Mavens Apr 3rd, 2019

Monetizer Mavens on what Apple Arcade needs to do to be successful

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Meet 31 of the top most exciting Washington state games companies

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Indie Spotlight: Panzerdog on making Tacticool a $1 million a month hit INDIE SPOTLIGHT Apr 17th, 2019

Indie Spotlight: Panzerdog on making Tacticool a $1 million a month hit

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Speaker Spotlight: Masquerade Media president Dayan Paul thinks the female gaming audience is still underserved INTERVIEW Apr 17th, 2019

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Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio JOBS IN GAMES Apr 16th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio

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Will Apple successfully capture the midcore gamer market with Apple Arcade? APPLE ARCADE Apr 15th, 2019

Will Apple successfully capture the midcore gamer market with Apple Arcade?

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Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

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Yokozuna Data CEO Africa Perianez on a career in machine learning and a company where half of the engineers and all the data scientists are women

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Will Apple successfully capture the midcore gamer market with Apple Arcade? APPLE ARCADE Apr 15th, 2019

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Four years on: Dodreams CEO Erik Pöntiskoski on why Drive Ahead is showing no signs of slowing down LIVE AND KICKING Apr 18th, 2019

Four years on: Dodreams CEO Erik Pöntiskoski on why Drive Ahead is showing no signs of slowing down

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as Defending against the dark arts of mobile game hacking with AppSealing HACK BLOCKER Apr 12th, 2019

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Indie Spotlight: Panzerdog on making Tacticool a $1 million a month hit INDIE SPOTLIGHT Apr 17th, 2019

Indie Spotlight: Panzerdog on making Tacticool a $1 million a month hit

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Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio JOBS IN GAMES Apr 16th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio

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Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser thanks to new Gold Pass

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Oculus staffing up for new augmented reality glasses

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Voodoo racks up two billion mobile game downloads

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We've not seen rejections of apps that show incentized video ads from GameAds, says Applifier CEO

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