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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

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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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How Rocket League Sideswipe hit the back of the net

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

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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

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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

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

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

How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise?

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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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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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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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Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time REIGNING REVENUE RAISERS Oct 7th, 2022

Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time

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The mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales [UPDATE] UNICORN CLUB Oct 6th, 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 on the blockchain. [UPDATE]

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James Levick: "The success of the initiative is dependent on being able to do 100% of the work in 80% of the time" FOUR DAY WORK WEEK Oct 4th, 2022

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Mobile Game of the Week: The House of Da Vinci 3

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Mobile Game of the Week: The House of Da Vinci 3

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James Levick: "The success of the initiative is dependent on being able to do 100% of the work in 80% of the time" FOUR DAY WORK WEEK Oct 4th, 2022

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

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Mobile lessons from Africa GUEST POST Oct 6th, 2022

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Baltic mobile studio Estoty reveals it’s working process ANALYSIS Oct 5th, 2022

Baltic mobile studio Estoty reveals it’s working process

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James Levick: "The success of the initiative is dependent on being able to do 100% of the work in 80% of the time" FOUR DAY WORK WEEK Oct 4th, 2022

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Huawei explores alternative app store advantages at Pocket Gamer Connects EXPLORE THE ALTERNATIVE Oct 3rd, 2022

Huawei explores alternative app store advantages at Pocket Gamer Connects

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Anna Yukhtenko: "Some tasks that I thought would take me a long time, actually require much less time if approached tactically" FOUR DAY WORK WEEK Sep 30th, 2022

Anna Yukhtenko: "Some tasks that I thought would take me a long time, actually require much less time if approached tactically"

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

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

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Anna Yukhtenko: "Some tasks that I thought would take me a long time, actually require much less time if approached tactically" FOUR DAY WORK WEEK Sep 30th, 2022

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Huawei explores alternative app store advantages at Pocket Gamer Connects EXPLORE THE ALTERNATIVE Oct 3rd, 2022

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James Levick: "The success of the initiative is dependent on being able to do 100% of the work in 80% of the time" FOUR DAY WORK WEEK Oct 4th, 2022

James Levick: "The success of the initiative is dependent on being able to do 100% of the work in 80% of the time"

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Bandai Namco Mobile’s CPO on the mobile gaming industry

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FunPlus hires Jacob Krüger as the new user acquisition director

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as Tencent changing strategy to acquire more majority deals FUTURE ACQUISITIONS Oct 3rd, 2022

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Sega’s first blockchain game is coming from partnership with double jump.tokyo BRINGING THE BLOCKCHAIN Sep 29th, 2022

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

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

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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

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Vodafone Idea partners with CareGame for India’s first cloud gaming service MOBILE STREAMING Oct 3rd, 2022

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as Saudi Arabia eyes up acquisition of major publisher SAUDI ARABIA Sep 30th, 2022

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Netflix and Tilting Point team up on three new titles COOKING UP SUCCESS Sep 29th, 2022

Netflix and Tilting Point team up on three new titles

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Sega’s first blockchain game is coming from partnership with double jump.tokyo BRINGING THE BLOCKCHAIN Sep 29th, 2022

Sega’s first blockchain game is coming from partnership with double jump.tokyo

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

Theorycraft Games raises $50 million in funding

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

Voodoo acquires Tarboosh Games after partnering on past projects

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

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Intrinsic in-game ads earn twice as much viewtime as other digital channels IN-GAME ADS Oct 6th, 2022

Intrinsic in-game ads earn twice as much viewtime as other digital channels

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Player spending forecast to fall 2% year-on-year in 2022 SENSOR TOWER REPORT Oct 5th, 2022

Player spending forecast to fall 2% year-on-year in 2022

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Azur Games discuss salvaging ditched apps in latest blog post PUBLISHER NEWS Oct 4th, 2022

Azur Games discuss salvaging ditched apps in latest blog post

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Latest Adjust report highlights January as strongest month for installs and sessions MARKET ANALYSIS Oct 3rd, 2022

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CPI for casual games has fallen, while ROAS has increased GET READY FOR LIFTOFF Oct 3rd, 2022

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as Domination and subgenre - finding your niche in the global mobile market BREAK ON THROUGH Sep 30th, 2022

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Tenjin has released its hypercasual games benchmark report HYPERCASUAL REPORT Sep 29th, 2022

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Indie Mavens on the opportunities of making lots of small games BIGGER ISN'T ALWAYS BETTER Nov 27th, 2015

Indie Mavens on the opportunities of making lots of small games

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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?

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Is there still a mass market for pixel art games? CURVY FUTURE? Jun 12th, 2015

Is there still a mass market for pixel art games?

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Does Apple really care about indie game developers? EYE OF THE BEHOLDER May 8th, 2015

Does Apple really care about indie game developers?

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Why should anyone care about your game? ATTRACTING EYEBALLS Apr 24th, 2015

Why should anyone care about your game?

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How do you know when your game is ready to launch? GOOD ENOUGH TO GO Apr 10th, 2015

How do you know when your game is ready to launch?

Advice, tricks and tips from the Indie Mavens

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Indies Mavens debate whether Nintendo should go paid or F2P? NO NICKLES, NO DIMES Mar 27th, 2015

Indies Mavens debate whether Nintendo should go paid or F2P?

How to revive a classic business?

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Devs debate Unity 5 vs Unreal Engine 4 and Source 2 REVVED UP Mar 13th, 2015

Devs debate Unity 5 vs Unreal Engine 4 and Source 2

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  • Engine
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Why indies should be more open about personal finance and development costs MOBILE MAVENS Feb 17th, 2015

Why indies should be more open about personal finance and development costs

It's not all about success stories

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Do discovery issues mean Steam is now better than mobile for indies? HOT AIR Jan 29th, 2015

Do discovery issues mean Steam is now better than mobile for indies?

Our Indie Mavens debate price, community and impact

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Indie Mavens on 2014: The year of Threes, 80 Days, GamerGate and the promise of VR to come MOBILE MAVENS Dec 12th, 2014

Indie Mavens on 2014: The year of Threes, 80 Days, GamerGate and the promise of VR to come

It is the time for retrospection

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VR is cool, but currently lacks commercial viability say our Indie Mavens MOBILE MAVENS Oct 28th, 2014

VR is cool, but currently lacks commercial viability say our Indie Mavens

Show us the retail units!

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