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Hot Five: Take-Two’s $12.7 billion Zynga acquisition, NFTs in Habbo, and three new casual games in the Netflix lineup Hot Five Jan 17th, 2022

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CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu on Spyke Games' massive $55 million seed round

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Airnow acquires mobile growth firm Lab Cave

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Take-Two acquires Zynga at $12.7 billion valuation WOW Jan 10th, 2022

Take-Two acquires Zynga at $12.7 billion valuation

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Genshin Impact drove US Action mobile game spending in 2021

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UK mobile games spending increased by 8.1% in 2021

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Europeans spent $11.2 billion on mobile games in 2021 EUROPEAN SPENDING Jan 6th, 2022

Europeans spent $11.2 billion on mobile games in 2021

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Count of active applications in the App Store

Total Active App (currently available for download): 4,795,217

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Lightheart Entertainment secures $6.8 million in Series A funding ON FIRE Apr 20th, 2021

Lightheart Entertainment secures $6.8 million in Series A funding

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Remote Control Productions on licensed IPs and how to secure them RCP LICENSED IP Aug 21st, 2017

Remote Control Productions on licensed IPs and how to secure them

COO Kalle Kaivola on building relationships and not focusing on genre

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Ex-Next Games and Rovio exec Kalle Kaivola joins Remote Control Productions as COO REMOTE KAIVOLA Feb 9th, 2017

Ex-Next Games and Rovio exec Kalle Kaivola joins Remote Control Productions as COO

Reunites with Angry Birds Epic developer

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Next Games' Kalle Kaivola shares tips for working with IP

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From startup to consolidation in 2 months: Next Games buys Helsinki Gameworks DEAL Oct 30th, 2014

From startup to consolidation in 2 months: Next Games buys Helsinki Gameworks

The Walking Dead dev gains talent and original IP

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Ex-Rovio, Remedy, Guerrilla, and Digital Chocolate devs form Helsinki GameWorks Sep 1st, 2014

Ex-Rovio, Remedy, Guerrilla, and Digital Chocolate devs form Helsinki GameWorks

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