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Hot Five: Epic hands out MegaGrants, Konami partners with Shenqu on Castlevania, and how does Battle Legion monetise? Hot Five Aug 3rd, 2020

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

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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

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Hot Five: Epic hands out MegaGrants, Konami partners with Shenqu on Castlevania, and how does Battle Legion monetise? Hot Five Aug 3rd, 2020

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Rogue Games shakes up its leadership, Luna Labs makes six hires, and Tom Hall joins Resolution Games TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Jun 26th, 2020

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as Mass delisting by Apple China: Over 26,000 games without ISBN removed CHINA GAME REMOVALS Aug 5th, 2020

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Indie Spotlight: How Moving Pieces pitched Dodo Peak for Apple Arcade BRINGING BACK THE DODO Aug 5th, 2020

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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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2 Genius: Why Clash Royale is for losers WIDE & DEEP Apr 14th, 2016

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Master the Meta: How Electronic Arts and Roblox are shattering records MASTER THE META Aug 3rd, 2020

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Making Of: Glu SVP Mike Olsen on tackling the RPG genre with Disney Sorcerer's Arena INTO THE UNKNOWN Aug 6th, 2020

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Sega president Kenji Matsubara resigns, Improbable welcomes new head of publishing, and more Ubisoft exits TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Aug 7th, 2020

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as Exclusive: Pokemon Café Mix generates 2.9 million downloads in first month, tops $1 million revenue YOU LARVITAR TO SEE IT Aug 7th, 2020

Exclusive: Pokemon Café Mix generates 2.9 million downloads in first month, tops $1 million revenue

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Ukie unveils 15 finalists for its UK Game of the Show award

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as Nexon has its best Q2 to date as it generates $610.4 million FINANCIALS Aug 7th, 2020

Nexon has its best Q2 to date as it generates $610.4 million

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Apple claims that cloud gaming apps like Project xCloud violate its policies ACCESS DENIED Aug 7th, 2020

Apple claims that cloud gaming apps like Project xCloud violate its policies

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

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

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Zynga buys hypercasual outfit Rollic for $168 million FAST MOVER Aug 5th, 2020

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Mobile games revenue hit $19.3 billion in Q2 2020 27% INCREASE YOY Aug 3rd, 2020

Mobile games revenue hit $19.3 billion in Q2 2020

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Playtika has given itself a rebrand

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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Epic Games secures $1.78 billion in new funding round

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Total Active App (currently available for download): 4,378,597

Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 213,872

Total Apps Seen in US App Store: 4,592,469

Number of Active Publishers in the US App Store: 1,199,854

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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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1 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?

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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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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?

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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