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Indie Mavens: Weighing up the benefits between digital and physical events for indies Mobile Mavens Jul 6th, 2020

Indie Mavens: Weighing up the benefits between digital and physical events for indies

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Hot Five: Discord raises $100 million, Mikko Kodisoja leaves Supercell, and player motivations across Fortnite, Roblox and Candy Crush Hot Five Jul 6th, 2020

Hot Five: Discord raises $100 million, Mikko Kodisoja leaves Supercell, and player motivations across Fortnite, Roblox and Candy Crush

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How does Forza Street monetise? The IAP Inspector Jun 5th, 2020

How does Forza Street 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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How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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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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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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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 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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay Feature Oct 15th, 2019

How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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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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Hot Five: Discord raises $100 million, Mikko Kodisoja leaves Supercell, and player motivations across Fortnite, Roblox and Candy Crush Hot Five Jul 6th, 2020

Hot Five: Discord raises $100 million, Mikko Kodisoja leaves Supercell, and player motivations across Fortnite, Roblox and Candy Crush

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

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1 How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? The IAP Inspector Mar 25th, 2019

How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise?

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2 Update: PocketGamer.biz's ultimate remote working resource guide HOW TO ROCK REMOTE Jul 8th, 2020

Update: PocketGamer.biz's ultimate remote working resource guide

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246 52 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot Mobile to Hay Day Pop and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad SOFT LAUNCH Jul 6th, 2020

52 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot Mobile to Hay Day Pop and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: SINoALICE WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Jul 3rd, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: SINoALICE

Update: All 125 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jun 29th, 2020

Update: All 125 Apple Arcade games available now

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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

Mobile games jobs weekly: Rogue Games shakes up its leadership, Luna Labs makes six hires, and Tom Hall joins Resolution Games

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Square Enix and SockMonkey look to expand, while Tastypill ups recruitment TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Jun 19th, 2020

Mobile games jobs weekly: Square Enix and SockMonkey look to expand, while Tastypill ups recruitment

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Spotify ad boss joins Activision, Rovio's Jakob Longer promoted, Ubisoft RedLynx vacancies aplenty TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Jun 12th, 2020

Mobile games jobs weekly: Spotify ad boss joins Activision, Rovio's Jakob Longer promoted, Ubisoft RedLynx vacancies aplenty

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Opinion: Why a growing disquiet stalks the corridors of WWDC 2010 10 YEARS ON Jun 10th, 2020

Opinion: Why a growing disquiet stalks the corridors of WWDC 2010

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246 52 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot Mobile to Hay Day Pop and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad SOFT LAUNCH Jul 6th, 2020

52 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot Mobile to Hay Day Pop and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay LIVEOP LEARNINGS Oct 15th, 2019

How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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Mobile Game of the Week: SINoALICE

Updated: 22 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Dec 19th, 2019

Updated: 22 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales

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Get excited for PG Connects Seattle 2020 with these six videos from last year's conference SIX OF THE BEST Mar 9th, 2020

Get excited for PG Connects Seattle 2020 with these six videos from last year's conference

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9 How does Coin Master monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Feb 7th, 2018

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1 33 notable mobile games released in May 2020 you may have missed NEW GAMES Jun 10th, 2020

33 notable mobile games released in May 2020 you may have missed

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Update: All 125 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jun 29th, 2020

Update: All 125 Apple Arcade games available now

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Indie Spotlight: Francis Entereso on launching a game in the middle of a global pandemic ONEMAN TEAM Jul 8th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: Francis Entereso on launching a game in the middle of a global pandemic

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Remote Working: Tencent data scientist Jia Wang on running operations from her bathroom JOBS IN GAMES Jul 7th, 2020

Remote Working: Tencent data scientist Jia Wang on running operations from her bathroom

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as Four years on and Pokemon GO is still flying high NOT A ONE TRICK PONYTA Jul 6th, 2020

Four years on and Pokemon GO is still flying high

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Indie Mavens: Weighing up the benefits between digital and physical events for indies DIGITAL VS PHYSICAL Jul 6th, 2020

Indie Mavens: Weighing up the benefits between digital and physical events for indies

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POC in Mobile: Why Jam City's Michael Raeford believes education is key to diversifying the games industry #BLACKLIVESMATTER Jul 3rd, 2020

POC in Mobile: Why Jam City's Michael Raeford believes education is key to diversifying the games industry

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What Apple killing the IDFA means for mobile marketing IDFA IS DEAD Jul 3rd, 2020

What Apple killing the IDFA means for mobile marketing

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Interview: LEGO Super Mario design lead Jonathan Bennink on bringing Nintendo's mascot to life with bricks BRICK BY BRICK Jul 3rd, 2020

Interview: LEGO Super Mario design lead Jonathan Bennink on bringing Nintendo's mascot to life with bricks

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Can subscriptions give F2P game monetization the shake-up it needs? RECURRING PROFITS Jul 2nd, 2020

Can subscriptions give F2P game monetization the shake-up it needs?

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What Apple killing the IDFA means for mobile marketing IDFA IS DEAD Jul 3rd, 2020

What Apple killing the IDFA means for mobile marketing

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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

Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot

  • Jobs
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POC in Mobile: Why Jam City's Michael Raeford believes education is key to diversifying the games industry #BLACKLIVESMATTER Jul 3rd, 2020

POC in Mobile: Why Jam City's Michael Raeford believes education is key to diversifying the games industry

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Making Of: How Tilting Point made SpongeBob Krusty Cook-Off ready for soft launch in 10 months I'M READY I'M READY Jul 2nd, 2020

Making Of: How Tilting Point made SpongeBob Krusty Cook-Off ready for soft launch in 10 months

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Remote Working: Tencent data scientist Jia Wang on running operations from her bathroom JOBS IN GAMES Jul 7th, 2020

Remote Working: Tencent data scientist Jia Wang on running operations from her bathroom

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Can subscriptions give F2P game monetization the shake-up it needs? RECURRING PROFITS Jul 2nd, 2020

Can subscriptions give F2P game monetization the shake-up it needs?

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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? MICRO-TRANSACT THAT Aug 28th, 2015

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

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Why we need to drop the "remote": Five tips for digitally leading a team DROP THE REMOTE Jul 1st, 2020

Why we need to drop the "remote": Five tips for digitally leading a team

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Kwalee's Line Up: Draw the Criminal draws in 1.5 million downloads in four days

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as Konami is not renewing its licenses with Inter Milan and AC Milan for PES franchise RED CARDED Jul 8th, 2020

Konami is not renewing its licenses with Inter Milan and AC Milan for PES franchise

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Microsoft reveals official Project xCloud mobile controller TOTAL CONTROL Jul 8th, 2020

Microsoft reveals official Project xCloud mobile controller

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Magic Leap appoints ex-Microsoft exec Peggy Johnson as new CEO

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as TikTok is leaving the Hong Kong market SO LONG HONG KONG Jul 7th, 2020

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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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Discord raises $100 million to expand beyond games A NEW DIRECTION Jul 1st, 2020

Discord raises $100 million to expand beyond games

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as This Week in China: Tencent unveils huge new games as it handles chili sauce promotion fraud case THIS WEEK IN CHINA Jul 6th, 2020

This Week in China: Tencent unveils huge new games as it handles chili sauce promotion fraud case

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as PUBG Mobile shoots through $3 billion in lifetime revenue JOIN THE FIGHT Jul 2nd, 2020

PUBG Mobile shoots through $3 billion in lifetime revenue

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Paradox Interactive acquires Playrion Game Studio THE FRENCH CONNECTION Jul 2nd, 2020

Paradox Interactive acquires Playrion Game Studio

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as Nexon opens worldwide pre-registrations for V4 THE FOUR V'S Jul 3rd, 2020

Nexon opens worldwide pre-registrations for V4

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1 Ten Square Games experiences its best quarter yet with $43 million MONEY MONEY MONEY Jul 6th, 2020

Ten Square Games experiences its best quarter yet with $43 million

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My Talking Tom Friends hits 60 million downloads in two weeks MR POPULAR Jul 1st, 2020

My Talking Tom Friends hits 60 million downloads in two weeks

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Soft launch to worldwide launch: Optimizing your creative for global success KEEP TESTING Jan 14th, 2020

Soft launch to worldwide launch: Optimizing your creative for global success

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Seeking a job in the games industry - part two: The interview process JOBS IN GAMES Jul 8th, 2019

Seeking a job in the games industry - part two: The interview process

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1 Seeking a job in the games industry - part one: The application process JOBS IN GAMES Jul 1st, 2019

Seeking a job in the games industry - part one: The application process

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2 User acquisition for beginners: A checklist GUIDE TO UA May 21st, 2019

User acquisition for beginners: A checklist

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Financing your indie games development studio - part two: The killer pitch PITCH PERFECT Apr 10th, 2019

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell FINDING FUNDING Mar 29th, 2019

The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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Lab Cave teams up with Zinkia Entertainment for Pocoyo mobile games TEAM WORK Jul 7th, 2020

Lab Cave teams up with Zinkia Entertainment for Pocoyo mobile games

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Animoca Brands secures $4.1 million through strategic investors INVESTMENT Jul 6th, 2020

Animoca Brands secures $4.1 million through strategic investors

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Bethesda teams with Amazon Studios and Kilter Films on Fallout TV series ANOTHER APOCALYPSE Jul 3rd, 2020

Bethesda teams with Amazon Studios and Kilter Films on Fallout TV series

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Paradox Interactive acquires Playrion Game Studio THE FRENCH CONNECTION Jul 2nd, 2020

Paradox Interactive acquires Playrion Game Studio

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Manchester City Football Club teams up with Capstone Games for its own official mobile game BACK OF THE NET Jul 2nd, 2020

Manchester City Football Club teams up with Capstone Games for its own official mobile game

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Anzu teams up with League-M to bring its in-game ads platform to European brands

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as Com2uS acquires online Go service Tygem NEW ACQUISITION Jul 1st, 2020

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37% of iPhone owners game daily while 46% of Blackberry owners have no games GAMES WHAT WON IT Jul 6th, 2020

37% of iPhone owners game daily while 46% of Blackberry owners have no games

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as Four years on and Pokemon GO is still flying high NOT A ONE TRICK PONYTA Jul 6th, 2020

Four years on and Pokemon GO is still flying high

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as PUBG Mobile shoots through $3 billion in lifetime revenue JOIN THE FIGHT Jul 2nd, 2020

PUBG Mobile shoots through $3 billion in lifetime revenue

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Over half of gamers prefer spending on brands "with a purpose", finds Gameloft BRAND IT Jun 30th, 2020

Over half of gamers prefer spending on brands "with a purpose", finds Gameloft

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Analysis: Player motivations in Roblox, Fortnite and Candy Crush Saga

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as What happened to Dr. Mario World? BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW Jun 26th, 2020

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There will be 2.5 billion mobile gamers worldwide at the end of 2020 ON THE RISE Jun 25th, 2020

There will be 2.5 billion mobile gamers worldwide at the end of 2020

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Call of Duty: Mobile shoots through 250 million downloads JOIN THE FIGHT Jun 24th, 2020

Call of Duty: Mobile shoots through 250 million downloads

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Supercell, Supercell, and Supercell: The most read news stories of 2019 MOST READ 2019 Dec 31st, 2019

Supercell, Supercell, and Supercell: The most read news stories of 2019

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019

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Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019

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Disney shuts down Star Wars: Rivals, Honor of Kings takes $3.5bn in revenue and Tencent unveil Lego Cube HOT FIVE Sep 24th, 2018

Disney shuts down Star Wars: Rivals, Honor of Kings takes $3.5bn in revenue and Tencent unveil Lego Cube

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5 things we learned at Devcom and Gamescom 2018

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018

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AR, VR and the Pixel 2: Google's Live Launch GOOGLE EVENT Oct 5th, 2017

AR, VR and the Pixel 2: Google's Live Launch

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Last Updated: Nov 5th, 2015
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Articles featuring Riccardo Zacconi

Articles featuring Riccardo Zacconi

King CEO Riccardo Zacconi steps down after 16 years JOB NEWS May 29th, 2019

King CEO Riccardo Zacconi steps down after 16 years

Will move to chairman role from July 1st, 2019

  • Jobs
  • Sweden
King's Mel Morris, Riccardo Zacconi and Sebastian Knutsson named in UK's Rich List GAMES' WEALTHIEST May 13th, 2019

King's Mel Morris, Riccardo Zacconi and Sebastian Knutsson named in UK's Rich List

Wealthiest games industry entrepreneurs worth more than £2.2 billion combined

  • Britain
  • Rich list
King snaps up former Snapchat exec Brian Ames as its new President of Advertising ADVERTISING AMES May 17th, 2017

King snaps up former Snapchat exec Brian Ames as its new President of Advertising

From chat to Candy Crush

  • Advertising
  • Jobs
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

Crushing it with Candy Crush Saga

  • Candy Crush Saga
  • Hall of Fame
King to release two non-Candy Crush titles in 2016 WHAT'S NEXT? May 18th, 2016

King to release two non-Candy Crush titles in 2016

Group synergies

  • Candy Crush Saga
  • Non-Candy Crush
Activision Blizzard completes acquisition of King for $5.9 billion KING ACQUIRED Feb 23rd, 2016

Activision Blizzard completes acquisition of King for $5.9 billion

Creates the "largest game network in the world"

  • Financials
  • M&A
  • Acquisition
  • NYSE:KING
  • NASDAQ:ATVI
Fewer players, fewer payers: King sees 2015 sales slide 12% to $2 billion FINAL QUARTER Feb 12th, 2016

Fewer players, fewer payers: King sees 2015 sales slide 12% to $2 billion

Candy crushing

  • Financials
  • Candy Crush Saga
  • NYSE:KING
  • Relative Decline
  • 31 December 2015
King's relative decline continues with FY15 Q3 sales down 2% to $480 million ON THE SLIDE Nov 5th, 2015

King's relative decline continues with FY15 Q3 sales down 2% to $480 million

Candy Crush matures more

  • Financials
  • NYSE:KING
  • Relative Decline
  • 30 September 2015
1 Activision Blizzard to buy King for $5.9 billion TAKES THE CROWN Nov 3rd, 2015

Activision Blizzard to buy King for $5.9 billion

All cash deal will close in Spring 2016

  • M&A
  • Acquisition
  • Consolidation
  • NYSE:KING
  • NASDAQ:ATVI
1 Despite the strength of 'non-Candy Crush Saga business', King sees FY14 Q3 sales drop 13% to $514 million FINANCIALS Nov 6th, 2014

Despite the strength of 'non-Candy Crush Saga business', King sees FY14 Q3 sales drop 13% to $514 million

But cash pile rises to $976 million

  • Financials
  • Candy Crush Saga
  • NYSE:KING
  • 30 September 2014
  • MGABPPU
  • Non-Candy Crush
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