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as Hot Five: September 12th. The five stories you need to know before you start your working week Hot Five Sep 12th, 2022

Hot Five: September 12th. The five stories you need to know before you start your working week

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Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022 Feature Aug 15th, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022

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How much do Unity and ironSource need each other? Mobile Mavens Jul 14th, 2022

How much do Unity and ironSource need each other?

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Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry Hall of Fame Jun 14th, 2022

Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry

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Subscription services are growing fast, but unlikely to become the dominant form of monetisation Comment & Opinion Jun 7th, 2022

Subscription services are growing fast, but unlikely to become the dominant form of monetisation

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What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions? Data & Research May 6th, 2022

What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions?

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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Mar 24th, 2022

Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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How Rocket League Sideswipe hit the back of the net Interview Dec 21st, 2021

How Rocket League Sideswipe hit the back of the net

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PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge News Oct 18th, 2021

PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge

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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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as East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal Regulars Sep 9th, 2019

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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The internet reacts to the Nintendo Switch reveal After Hours Oct 22nd, 2016

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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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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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

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

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022 Feature Aug 15th, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022

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How does Coin Master monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 7th, 2018

How does Coin Master monetise?

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as Hot Five: September 12th. The five stories you need to know before you start your working week Hot Five Sep 12th, 2022

Hot Five: September 12th. The five stories you need to know before you start your working week

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as How localised experiences keeps Free Fire alive four years on Interview Dec 15th, 2021

How localised experiences keeps Free Fire alive four years on

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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Mar 24th, 2022

Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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How much do Unity and ironSource need each other? Mobile Mavens Jul 14th, 2022

How much do Unity and ironSource need each other?

  • Deal
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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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The mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales [UPDATE] UNICORN CLUB Sep 20th, 2022

The mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales [UPDATE]

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE] SOFT LAUNCH Sep 19th, 2022

The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE]

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Abigail Rindo: Every game is a different problem to solve narratively and creatively INTERVIEW Sep 15th, 2022

Abigail Rindo: Every game is a different problem to solve narratively and creatively

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The latest and most interesting mobile games on the blockchain. [UPDATE] BLOCKCHAIN MOBILE GAMES Sep 13th, 2022

The latest and most interesting mobile games on the blockchain. [UPDATE]

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10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time MONOPOLY MONEY Sep 12th, 2022

10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time

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How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io ROGUELITE Sep 11th, 2022

How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io

All 262 Apple Arcade games available now [UPDATE] AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Aug 26th, 2022

All 262 Apple Arcade games available now [UPDATE]

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Mobile Game of the Week: Teacup WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Aug 26th, 2022

Mobile Game of the Week: Teacup

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE] SOFT LAUNCH Sep 19th, 2022

The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE]

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The mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales [UPDATE] UNICORN CLUB Sep 20th, 2022

The mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales [UPDATE]

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How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io ROGUELITE Sep 11th, 2022

How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io

Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time REIGNING REVENUE RAISERS Aug 14th, 2022

Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time

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All 262 Apple Arcade games available now [UPDATE] AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Aug 26th, 2022

All 262 Apple Arcade games available now [UPDATE]

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Abigail Rindo: Every game is a different problem to solve narratively and creatively INTERVIEW Sep 15th, 2022

Abigail Rindo: Every game is a different problem to solve narratively and creatively

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10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time MONOPOLY MONEY Sep 12th, 2022

10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time

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Mobile Game of the Week: Teacup WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Aug 26th, 2022

Mobile Game of the Week: Teacup

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"There is enormous room for the industry to grow in a less saturated market": Joseph Azzam on the Middle East market MENA SPOTLIGHT Sep 24th, 2022

"There is enormous room for the industry to grow in a less saturated market": Joseph Azzam on the Middle East market

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“Security is a challenging skillset, and scarce”: Steeve Huin of Denuvo talks mobile and metaverse hacking SECURITY DETAIL Sep 23rd, 2022

“Security is a challenging skillset, and scarce”: Steeve Huin of Denuvo talks mobile and metaverse hacking

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  • PGC Helsinki
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Understanding hybrid-casual’s gentle revolution GUEST POST Sep 23rd, 2022

Understanding hybrid-casual’s gentle revolution

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Mobile game monetisation: the third way GUEST POST Sep 21st, 2022

Mobile game monetisation: the third way

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Luis de la Camara: “ I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now the industry is primarily made up of a handful of big companies.” INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Luis de la Camara: “ I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now the industry is primarily made up of a handful of big companies.”

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Jochen Gary: "Playing seamlessly across mobile, desktop, and partly console will be the new normal" INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Jochen Gary: "Playing seamlessly across mobile, desktop, and partly console will be the new normal"

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Dudu Dahan: "Creating a successful game without financial backing is nowadays almost impossible" INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Dudu Dahan: "Creating a successful game without financial backing is nowadays almost impossible"

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Christopher Kassulke "We want to develop great games, we want to tell stories with our games.” INDUSTRY THOUGHTS Sep 19th, 2022

Christopher Kassulke "We want to develop great games, we want to tell stories with our games.”

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InnoGames publishes salary bands for 80% of employees SALARY TRANSPARENCY Jul 19th, 2022

InnoGames publishes salary bands for 80% of employees

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Dudu Dahan: "Creating a successful game without financial backing is nowadays almost impossible" INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Dudu Dahan: "Creating a successful game without financial backing is nowadays almost impossible"

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Luis de la Camara: “ I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now the industry is primarily made up of a handful of big companies.” INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Luis de la Camara: “ I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now the industry is primarily made up of a handful of big companies.”

  • Monetisation
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Jochen Gary: "Playing seamlessly across mobile, desktop, and partly console will be the new normal" INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Jochen Gary: "Playing seamlessly across mobile, desktop, and partly console will be the new normal"

  • Interview
Choosing the right online tech for your game CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON Aug 15th, 2022

Choosing the right online tech for your game

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Christopher Kassulke "We want to develop great games, we want to tell stories with our games.” INDUSTRY THOUGHTS Sep 19th, 2022

Christopher Kassulke "We want to develop great games, we want to tell stories with our games.”

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How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io ROGUELITE Sep 11th, 2022

How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io

“Jordan is the access point to 65 million Arabic gamers”: Nour Khrais on the Middle East market MENA SPOTLIGHT Sep 17th, 2022

“Jordan is the access point to 65 million Arabic gamers”: Nour Khrais on the Middle East market

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Tripledot appoints Daniel Freireich as Chief Games Officer NEW HIRE Sep 26th, 2022

Tripledot appoints Daniel Freireich as Chief Games Officer

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BFI set to promote game preservation as part of Screen Culture 2033 Initiative NEWS Sep 26th, 2022

BFI set to promote game preservation as part of Screen Culture 2033 Initiative

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Subway Surfers and Candy Crush Saga still at the top of the game SOCIALPETA REPORT Sep 26th, 2022

Subway Surfers and Candy Crush Saga still at the top of the game

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Get the latest tips and learn about the technology for the best multiplayer games at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki MASTERING MULTIPLAYER Sep 26th, 2022

Get the latest tips and learn about the technology for the best multiplayer games at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki

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Bungie patents hint that Destiny could be coming to mobile DESTINY MOBILE Sep 26th, 2022

Bungie patents hint that Destiny could be coming to mobile

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Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki kicks off tomorrow! There’s still time to join us THANK YOU Sep 26th, 2022

Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki kicks off tomorrow! There’s still time to join us

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Armello devs summon remake of 2009’s Solium Infernum

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Rec Room is coming to PC REC CON Sep 23rd, 2022

Rec Room is coming to PC

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Ridiculous Fishing and Towelfight 2 are heading the Quality Index's Top 10 rated iOS and Android games of March 2013

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Luis de la Camara: “ I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now the industry is primarily made up of a handful of big companies.” INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Luis de la Camara: “ I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now the industry is primarily made up of a handful of big companies.”

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as Apple is raising App Store prices next month APP STORE PRICE HIKE Sep 20th, 2022

Apple is raising App Store prices next month

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as Saudi Arabia launches gaming and esports strategy THE GROWTH OF MENA GAMING Sep 23rd, 2022

Saudi Arabia launches gaming and esports strategy

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Carolina Herrera Dress sells for $5000 on Roblox METAVERSE FASHION Sep 23rd, 2022

Carolina Herrera Dress sells for $5000 on Roblox

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Newzoo shines spotlight on female gamers

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How to hire a CFO for your mobile games studio

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How to value a mobile games studio MOBILE PRICE INDEX Aug 9th, 2022

How to value a mobile games studio

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What you need to do before monetising your hypercasual game DO THIS FIRST Apr 28th, 2022

What you need to do before monetising your hypercasual game

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Three in-game monetisation myths that need to be left in 2021 MONETISATION MYTHS BUSTED Apr 14th, 2022

Three in-game monetisation myths that need to be left in 2021

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How to prevent ‘purposefully neglectful’ UI/UX dark patterns in F2P mobile games DARK TIMES Apr 13th, 2022

How to prevent ‘purposefully neglectful’ UI/UX dark patterns in F2P mobile games

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Financing LTV in mobile gaming FUND GROWTH TO SCALE Mar 31st, 2022

Financing LTV in mobile gaming

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Pollen VC launches the definitive guide to selecting a UA financing partner UA OK Jan 14th, 2022

Pollen VC launches the definitive guide to selecting a UA financing partner

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How in-game ads have taken APPS to the next level IN-GAME INSIGHT Nov 29th, 2021

How in-game ads have taken APPS to the next level

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Theorycraft Games raises $50 million in funding INVESTMENTS Sep 22nd, 2022

Theorycraft Games raises $50 million in funding

  • Investment
Keywords Studios announces conditional acquisition of Smoking Gun AIMING TO ACQUIRE Sep 21st, 2022

Keywords Studios announces conditional acquisition of Smoking Gun

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  • Canada
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  • Mahjong
Voodoo acquires Tarboosh Games after partnering on past projects ACQUISITION ACHIEVED Sep 21st, 2022

Voodoo acquires Tarboosh Games after partnering on past projects

  • Acquisition
  • Hypercasual
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Successful $1.5 million funding round for Sceneri FUNDING ROUND Sep 21st, 2022

Successful $1.5 million funding round for Sceneri

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Cosmo Media Labs launches with investment from The Sandbox INVESTMENT Sep 19th, 2022

Cosmo Media Labs launches with investment from The Sandbox

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NetEase and Shueisha Games partner up on unVEIL the world UNVEILING A NEW PARTNERSHIP Sep 16th, 2022

NetEase and Shueisha Games partner up on unVEIL the world

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Assemble Entertainment will distribute for Mixtvision Games NEW PARTNERSHIP Sep 16th, 2022

Assemble Entertainment will distribute for Mixtvision Games

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Animoca Brands begins acquisition proceedings of WePlay Media RACING TO SUCCESS Sep 16th, 2022

Animoca Brands begins acquisition proceedings of WePlay Media

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Subway Surfers and Candy Crush Saga still at the top of the game SOCIALPETA REPORT Sep 26th, 2022

Subway Surfers and Candy Crush Saga still at the top of the game

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Genshin Impact surpasses $3.6 billion revenue ahead of second anniversary GENSHIN'S GROWING GIANT Sep 23rd, 2022

Genshin Impact surpasses $3.6 billion revenue ahead of second anniversary

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as How did Apex Legends top the charts in Japan? BIG IN JAPAN Sep 22nd, 2022

How did Apex Legends top the charts in Japan?

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GlobalData: Games industry to be worth $470 billion by 2030 MOBILE MOMENTUM Sep 22nd, 2022

GlobalData: Games industry to be worth $470 billion by 2030

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as Niko Partners: Games with metaverse elements will be most profitable short term ASCENSION IN ASIA Sep 22nd, 2022

Niko Partners: Games with metaverse elements will be most profitable short term

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as Israeli gaming market worth $9 billion ISRAELI GAMING MARKET Sep 22nd, 2022

Israeli gaming market worth $9 billion

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Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – September 20 2022 FEATURE Sep 21st, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – September 20 2022

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as 50 percent of genZ gamers in India actively participate in real money gaming RMG GAMING Sep 21st, 2022

50 percent of genZ gamers in India actively participate in real money gaming

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2022 BEST OF 2022 Aug 23rd, 2022

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2022

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The highest-grossing mobile games of the quarter revealed

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PocketGamer.biz's 22 most anticipated mobile games of 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED 2022 Dec 30th, 2021

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PocketGamer.biz’s top five biggest features of 2021 FEATUREFUL Dec 29th, 2021

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PocketGamer.biz’s top five biggest news stories of 2021 A TIME OF REFLECTION Dec 28th, 2021

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021 BEST OF 2021 Sep 6th, 2021

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021

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The Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2021 finalists TOP TALENT Jul 8th, 2021

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020 BEST OF 2020 Sep 8th, 2020

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020

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How useful is influencer marketing to an indie mobile game developer? INDIE MAVENS May 10th, 2017

How useful is influencer marketing to an indie mobile game developer?

Our Indie Mavens weigh in

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How do indie developers measure and define success? INDIE MAVENS Apr 7th, 2017

How do indie developers measure and define success?

Our Indie Mavens weigh in

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Will the new App Store Indies section have any real impact on indie mobile games? INDIE MAVENS Mar 23rd, 2017

Will the new App Store Indies section have any real impact on indie mobile games?

Our Indie Mavens weigh in

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How will integrated reviews and ratings in iOS games affect indie developers? INDIE MAVENS Feb 3rd, 2017

How will integrated reviews and ratings in iOS games affect indie developers?

Our Indie Mavens weigh in

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How useful are ads for indies in their free-to-play games? INDIE MAVENS Dec 1st, 2016

How useful are ads for indies in their free-to-play games?

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Are paid apps dead or is there still life in premium mobile games for indies? INDIE MAVENS Aug 30th, 2016

Are paid apps dead or is there still life in premium mobile games for indies?

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Will the success of Slither.io have a lasting effect on indie mobile games? NEXTGEN SNAKE May 20th, 2016

Will the success of Slither.io have a lasting effect on indie mobile games?

The Indie Mavens weigh in

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Indie Mavens on why Crunch - including indie self-crunch - is a failure of process DON'T PUSH IT May 3rd, 2016

Indie Mavens on why Crunch - including indie self-crunch - is a failure of process

Don't confuse passion with servitude

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  • Development
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  • Crunch
How useful was GDC 2016 for our Indie Mavens? Did they even go? INDIE MAVENS Apr 6th, 2016

How useful was GDC 2016 for our Indie Mavens? Did they even go?

Indie Mavens weigh in on the big trends and overall usefulness of the show

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  • Indies
  • Mavens
  • Indie Mavens
What do the Indie Mavens think of Clash Royale? Have they even played it yet? INDIE MAVENS Mar 16th, 2016

What do the Indie Mavens think of Clash Royale? Have they even played it yet?

Will it be another feather in Supercell's cap?

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  • Indie Mavens
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VR, console brands, paid, Apple TV... Indie Mavens on the trends they expect to see in 2016 INDIE MAVENS Mar 3rd, 2016

VR, console brands, paid, Apple TV... Indie Mavens on the trends they expect to see in 2016

What does the future hold?

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  • Paid
  • Mavens
  • Trends
  • Apple TV
  • Indie Mavens
  • 2016 in Preview
Indie Mavens discuss the biggest news and their best games of 2015 THE YEAR IN REVIEW Dec 21st, 2015

Indie Mavens discuss the biggest news and their best games of 2015

How was 2015 for you?

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Indie Mavens discuss livestreaming as a marketing tool LIVE ON AIR Nov 20th, 2015

Indie Mavens discuss livestreaming as a marketing tool

The next big thing

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  • Twitch
  • Streaming
  • Marketing
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Indie Mavens discuss the difficulties of supporting iOS games TROUBLESHOOTERS Nov 6th, 2015

Indie Mavens discuss the difficulties of supporting iOS games

A Sisyphean task

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  • App Store
  • Mavens
  • Indie Mavens
Are indie devs interested in supporting Apple TV? SMARTER BOX Oct 5th, 2015

Are indie devs interested in supporting Apple TV?

Indie Mavens debate Apple's new box

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