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Agora senior director of sales Mike Lopez on the importance of trends in games Interview Dec 2nd, 2020

Agora senior director of sales Mike Lopez on the importance of trends in games

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Hot Five: Supercell invests in 2UP Games, The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia wants SNK, and ByteDance launches publishing arm Hot Five Nov 30th, 2020

Hot Five: Supercell invests in 2UP Games, The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia wants SNK, and ByteDance launches publishing arm

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Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Small Giant Games appoint new CEO, Mediatonic expands, and redundancies hit Bossa Studios Feature Nov 27th, 2020

Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Small Giant Games appoint new CEO, Mediatonic expands, and redundancies hit Bossa Studios

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Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Nexon nominates former TikTok CEO, Retro Studios hires Marisa Palumbo, and Keywords Studios brings in Fumiko Okura Job News Nov 20th, 2020

Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Nexon nominates former TikTok CEO, Retro Studios hires Marisa Palumbo, and Keywords Studios brings in Fumiko Okura

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Indie Mavens: Is there an overall benefit to going completely remote work or does a company still need an office? Mobile Mavens Oct 28th, 2020

Indie Mavens: Is there an overall benefit to going completely remote work or does a company still need an office?

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How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise? The IAP Inspector Oct 26th, 2020

How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise?

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as Pokemon Day: How are The Pokemon Company's recent mobile releases performing? The Charticle Feb 27th, 2020

Pokemon Day: How are The Pokemon Company's recent mobile releases performing?

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

Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell News Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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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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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 Hall of Fame Oct 27th, 2016

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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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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Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?

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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

Fallout Shelter's success, E3's future, and #PCGSanFran speakers in the spotlight

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

Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14

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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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PG.biz week that was: Gamevil likes Amazon Appstore, Honeycomb will be open, AGON stops, Zipline starts, HTC profits, Xoom hasn't, 4th & Battery rejected, and Apple gets game PR Week that was Apr 9th, 2011

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How Disney Magic Kingdoms has kept the magic alive for four years and counting

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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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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell News Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? Comment & Opinion Aug 28th, 2015

Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?

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

Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14

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"It’s important to create a culture where it is okay to be different," says SciPlay QA Manager Ronny Yoon Interview Nov 27th, 2020

"It’s important to create a culture where it is okay to be different," says SciPlay QA Manager Ronny Yoon

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Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Small Giant Games appoint new CEO, Mediatonic expands, and redundancies hit Bossa Studios Feature Nov 27th, 2020

Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Small Giant Games appoint new CEO, Mediatonic expands, and redundancies hit Bossa Studios

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Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #5 advent calendar: Day 3: Free meeting platform

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King president Humam Sakhnini addresses Candy Crush longevity, diversity and utilising Activision IP to bring Crash Bandicoot to mobile A YEAR OF TRANSITION Dec 1st, 2020

King president Humam Sakhnini addresses Candy Crush longevity, diversity and utilising Activision IP to bring Crash Bandicoot to mobile

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253 50 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Project Cars GO and The Witcher: Monster Slayer SOFT LAUNCH Nov 30th, 2020

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Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Small Giant Games appoint new CEO, Mediatonic expands, and redundancies hit Bossa Studios

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Mobile Game of the Week: Heroes War: Counterattack

Update: All 143 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Nov 27th, 2020

Update: All 143 Apple Arcade games available now

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50 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Project Cars GO and The Witcher: Monster Slayer

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King president Humam Sakhnini addresses Candy Crush longevity, diversity and utilising Activision IP to bring Crash Bandicoot to mobile

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Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #5 advent calendar: Day 3: Free meeting platform HAPPY HOLIDAYS Dec 3rd, 2020

Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #5 advent calendar: Day 3: Free meeting platform

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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games - Swordigo, Zuma's Revenge! HD Mar 31st, 2012

Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games - Swordigo, Zuma's Revenge! HD

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Mobile Game of the Week: Heroes War: Counterattack

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30 notable mobile games released in November 2020 you may have missed

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How Animal Restaurant secured 10 million customers

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App Marketers Unplugged: 5 takeaways about the state of mobile games

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Agora senior director of sales Mike Lopez on the importance of trends in games REMOTE WORKING Dec 2nd, 2020

Agora senior director of sales Mike Lopez on the importance of trends in games

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Will cloud gaming change how gamers play on their mobiles? EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE Dec 2nd, 2020

Will cloud gaming change how gamers play on their mobiles?

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King president Humam Sakhnini addresses Candy Crush longevity, diversity and utilising Activision IP to bring Crash Bandicoot to mobile A YEAR OF TRANSITION Dec 1st, 2020

King president Humam Sakhnini addresses Candy Crush longevity, diversity and utilising Activision IP to bring Crash Bandicoot to mobile

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Master the Meta: a first look at Roblox MASTER THE META Nov 30th, 2020

Master the Meta: a first look at Roblox

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How Disney Magic Kingdoms has kept the magic alive for four years and counting LIVE AND KICKING Nov 26th, 2020

How Disney Magic Kingdoms has kept the magic alive for four years and counting

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King president Humam Sakhnini addresses Candy Crush longevity, diversity and utilising Activision IP to bring Crash Bandicoot to mobile A YEAR OF TRANSITION Dec 1st, 2020

King president Humam Sakhnini addresses Candy Crush longevity, diversity and utilising Activision IP to bring Crash Bandicoot to mobile

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How Disney Magic Kingdoms has kept the magic alive for four years and counting LIVE AND KICKING Nov 26th, 2020

How Disney Magic Kingdoms has kept the magic alive for four years and counting

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13 Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire? WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE May 25th, 2020

Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire?

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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot JOBS IN GAMES Oct 8th, 2019

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Master the Meta: a first look at Roblox MASTER THE META Nov 30th, 2020

Master the Meta: a first look at Roblox

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"It’s important to create a culture where it is okay to be different," says SciPlay QA Manager Ronny Yoon POC IN MOBILE Nov 27th, 2020

"It’s important to create a culture where it is okay to be different," says SciPlay QA Manager Ronny Yoon

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Will cloud gaming change how gamers play on their mobiles? EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE Dec 2nd, 2020

Will cloud gaming change how gamers play on their mobiles?

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Chinese online games portal TapTap shut down for three months as government cracks down on rule breakers

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Supercell cancels new casual match-three puzzler Hay Day Pop

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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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Master the Meta: a first look at Roblox MASTER THE META Nov 30th, 2020

Master the Meta: a first look at Roblox

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Salesforce picks up Slack for $27.7 billion NO SLACKING Dec 2nd, 2020

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Last Updated: Feb 9th, 2017
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Articles featuring Kalle Kaivola

Articles featuring Kalle Kaivola

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

  • Licensing
  • Intellectual Property
  • Brands
  • Devcom
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

  • Jobs
  • Munich
Next Games' Kalle Kaivola shares tips for working with IP TWO-WAY STREET Jan 19th, 2016

Next Games' Kalle Kaivola shares tips for working with IP

Approaching brands properly

  • Brands
  • PGC
  • The Walking Dead
  • PGC London
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

  • M&A
  • Finland
  • Helsinki
  • Acquisition
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

Band of brothers

  • Helsinki
  • Startup
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