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Hot Five: Why people still play Coin Master, Rovio soft-launches Angry Birds Legends, and how Covid-19 is impacting mobile advertising Hot Five Apr 6th, 2020

Hot Five: Why people still play Coin Master, Rovio soft-launches Angry Birds Legends, and how Covid-19 is impacting mobile advertising

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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?

  • Charticle
  • Pokémon Go
  • Pokemon
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What do UK mobile game developers think of Brexit? Mobile Mavens Jan 31st, 2020

What do UK mobile game developers think of Brexit?

  • Europe
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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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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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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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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?

  • Monetisation
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  • IAP Inspector
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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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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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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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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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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

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

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2 Retail virtual reality: What does it need, and where the hell is it? Mobile Mavens Oct 22nd, 2014

Retail virtual reality: What does it need, and where the hell is it?

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Hot Five: Why people still play Coin Master, Rovio soft-launches Angry Birds Legends, and how Covid-19 is impacting mobile advertising Hot Five Apr 6th, 2020

Hot Five: Why people still play Coin Master, Rovio soft-launches Angry Birds Legends, and how Covid-19 is impacting mobile advertising

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4 as How does Rules of Survival monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 23rd, 2018

How does Rules of Survival monetise?

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2 Hall of Fame: Miniclip CEO Robert Small on building one of the most recognisable names in gaming Hot Five Aug 7th, 2018

Hall of Fame: Miniclip CEO Robert Small on building one of the most recognisable names in gaming

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1 48 notable mobile games released in March 2020 you may have missed NEW GAMES Apr 8th, 2020

48 notable mobile games released in March 2020 you may have missed

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Games vs Covid-19: No new games will be certified in Japan until 8 May WHAT'S UP? Apr 7th, 2020

Games vs Covid-19: No new games will be certified in Japan until 8 May

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PGC Digital: KPIs to watch for and how to improve them PGC DIGITAL Apr 7th, 2020

PGC Digital: KPIs to watch for and how to improve them

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PGC Digital: Indie survival in a digital landscape PGC DIGITAL Apr 6th, 2020

PGC Digital: Indie survival in a digital landscape

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231 54 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Casual and Hay Day Pop to Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad SOFT LAUNCH Apr 6th, 2020

54 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Casual and Hay Day Pop to Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad

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It's remote working month on PocketGamer.biz! REMOTE WORKING MONTH Apr 6th, 2020

It's remote working month on PocketGamer.biz!

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Update: All 115 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Apr 6th, 2020

Update: All 115 Apple Arcade games available now

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as This Week In China: Second wave of game approvals goes through, and Tencent files the first 5G-related lawsuit in the country THIS WEEK IN CHINA Apr 3rd, 2020

This Week In China: Second wave of game approvals goes through, and Tencent files the first 5G-related lawsuit in the country

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231 54 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Casual and Hay Day Pop to Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad SOFT LAUNCH Apr 6th, 2020

54 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Casual and Hay Day Pop to Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad

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Games vs Covid-19: No new games will be certified in Japan until 8 May WHAT'S UP? Apr 7th, 2020

Games vs Covid-19: No new games will be certified in Japan until 8 May

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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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as This Week In China: Second wave of game approvals goes through, and Tencent files the first 5G-related lawsuit in the country THIS WEEK IN CHINA Apr 3rd, 2020

This Week In China: Second wave of game approvals goes through, and Tencent files the first 5G-related lawsuit in the country

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Undersea Solitaire Tripeaks WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Apr 3rd, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Undersea Solitaire Tripeaks

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

How does Coin Master monetise?

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Recap: How has the coronavirus impacted the mobile games industry? CORONAVIRUS IMPACT Mar 27th, 2020

Recap: How has the coronavirus impacted the mobile games industry?

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Remote Working: How Wooga's Marco Rizzotti is developing character designs from home REMOTE WORKING MONTH Apr 8th, 2020

Remote Working: How Wooga's Marco Rizzotti is developing character designs from home

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Beyond the office: What remote work can teach us about the strength of our culture BEYOND THE OFFICE Apr 7th, 2020

Beyond the office: What remote work can teach us about the strength of our culture

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Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1: Eight of the best sessions you shouldn't miss EDITOR'S CHOICE Apr 3rd, 2020

Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1: Eight of the best sessions you shouldn't miss

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Making Of: How Bossa Studio's love of game jams led to Apple Arcade title Hogwash MAKING OF Apr 2nd, 2020

Making Of: How Bossa Studio's love of game jams led to Apple Arcade title Hogwash

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Indie Spotlight: How RAC7 Games earned two game approvals for Apple Arcade INDIE SPOTLIGHT Apr 1st, 2020

Indie Spotlight: How RAC7 Games earned two game approvals for Apple Arcade

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How Covid-19 is impacting the mobile advertising industry RISING DEMAND Apr 1st, 2020

How Covid-19 is impacting the mobile advertising industry

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Hypercasual surges with the top 3 most downloads mobile games from Voodoo HYPERCASUAL SURGE Apr 1st, 2020

Hypercasual surges with the top 3 most downloads mobile games from Voodoo

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Jobs in Games: Jam City's Sarah Wolf on transitioning from lawyer to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game director JOBS IN GAMES Mar 31st, 2020

Jobs in Games: Jam City's Sarah Wolf on transitioning from lawyer to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game director

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16 Why are people still playing Coin Master? KEEP SPINNING Mar 31st, 2020

Why are people still playing Coin Master?

  • Monetisation
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  • Coin Master
How Covid-19 is impacting the mobile advertising industry RISING DEMAND Apr 1st, 2020

How Covid-19 is impacting the mobile advertising industry

  • Advertising
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Making Of: How Bossa Studio's love of game jams led to Apple Arcade title Hogwash MAKING OF Apr 2nd, 2020

Making Of: How Bossa Studio's love of game jams led to Apple Arcade title Hogwash

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1 How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? SHARP SHINY THINGS Mar 25th, 2019

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

  • Monetisation
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Hypercasual surges with the top 3 most downloads mobile games from Voodoo HYPERCASUAL SURGE Apr 1st, 2020

Hypercasual surges with the top 3 most downloads mobile games from Voodoo

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Jobs in Games: Jam City's Sarah Wolf on transitioning from lawyer to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game director JOBS IN GAMES Mar 31st, 2020

Jobs in Games: Jam City's Sarah Wolf on transitioning from lawyer to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game director

  • Jobs in Games
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  • California
How Snap Games tackles exclusivity, monetisation, and competition from Apple Arcade A NEW CONTENDER Feb 7th, 2020

How Snap Games tackles exclusivity, monetisation, and competition from Apple Arcade

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Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1: Eight of the best sessions you shouldn't miss EDITOR'S CHOICE Apr 3rd, 2020

Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1: Eight of the best sessions you shouldn't miss

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PGC Digital: "Platform featuring is not as strong as it used to be," says former Disney and Zynga PM SOFT-LAUNCH BENEFITS Apr 8th, 2020

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PGC Digital: Interactive streaming will be the future of gaming

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PGC Digital: META Games COO believes KPIs are the "best way to align teams and people towards a goal"

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PGC Digital: Shadow Fight 3 brawls its way to 80 million downloads globally

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In-game ads firm Anzu hires Jeremy Taylor as its new Vice President of EMEA NEW OPPORTUNITY Apr 7th, 2020

In-game ads firm Anzu hires Jeremy Taylor as its new Vice President of EMEA

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Scrabble Go experiences the best launch ever for a mobile word game WORD UP Apr 7th, 2020

Scrabble Go experiences the best launch ever for a mobile word game

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as Mobile games just experienced its biggest week for downloads ever APP ANNIE Apr 3rd, 2020

Mobile games just experienced its biggest week for downloads ever

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Scrabble Go experiences the best launch ever for a mobile word game WORD UP Apr 7th, 2020

Scrabble Go experiences the best launch ever for a mobile word game

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Epic Games reveals details of J.J. Abrams' mobile game Spyjinx, launches beta THE SPY WHO JINXED ME Apr 3rd, 2020

Epic Games reveals details of J.J. Abrams' mobile game Spyjinx, launches beta

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Vainglory’s surprise shutdown averted by Super Evil Megacorp EMERGENCY RESCUE Apr 7th, 2020

Vainglory’s surprise shutdown averted by Super Evil Megacorp

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as Jam City launches Disney Emoji Blitz in Japan after 30 million downloads worldwide IT'S MAGIC Apr 1st, 2020

Jam City launches Disney Emoji Blitz in Japan after 30 million downloads worldwide

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Exclusive: Houseparty App sees nearly 3000% increase in downloads following coronavirus lockdown EUROPEAN SURGE Apr 1st, 2020

Exclusive: Houseparty App sees nearly 3000% increase in downloads following coronavirus lockdown

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Idle Coffee Corp dev StarBerry raises $1.1 million HOT STUFF Apr 3rd, 2020

Idle Coffee Corp dev StarBerry raises $1.1 million

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April Fool's Day 2020: From a Fire Emblem Heroes spinoff to Pokemon GO pranksters OVERWATCH GOES GOOGLY Apr 1st, 2020

April Fool's Day 2020: From a Fire Emblem Heroes spinoff to Pokemon GO pranksters

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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 four: Due diligence THE FINAL STEP May 1st, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part four: Due diligence

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Financing your indie games development studio - part three: Structuring an investment deal ART OF THE DEAL Apr 26th, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part three: Structuring an investment deal

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

Financing your indie games development studio - part two: The killer pitch

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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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Idle Coffee Corp dev StarBerry raises $1.1 million HOT STUFF Apr 3rd, 2020

Idle Coffee Corp dev StarBerry raises $1.1 million

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Epic Games reveals details of J.J. Abrams' mobile game Spyjinx, launches beta THE SPY WHO JINXED ME Apr 3rd, 2020

Epic Games reveals details of J.J. Abrams' mobile game Spyjinx, launches beta

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Niantic acquires 6D.ai to further its AR goals AR ACQUISITION Mar 31st, 2020

Niantic acquires 6D.ai to further its AR goals

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as Colopl acquires Steins;Gate creator Mages for $14.9 million MAGES;ACQUISITION Mar 30th, 2020

Colopl acquires Steins;Gate creator Mages for $14.9 million

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Enthusiast Gaming joins forces with Twitch to raise money against COVID-19 "GLOBAL FIGHT" Mar 27th, 2020

Enthusiast Gaming joins forces with Twitch to raise money against COVID-19

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as Tencent and Huawei partner for cloud games platform ANOTHER ONE? Mar 27th, 2020

Tencent and Huawei partner for cloud games platform

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Crytek teams up with Google to bring the Cryengine to Android TEAMWORK Mar 25th, 2020

Crytek teams up with Google to bring the Cryengine to Android

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Finnish studio Mainframe Industries raises $8.1 million for cloud gaming MMO IN THE WORKS Mar 20th, 2020

Finnish studio Mainframe Industries raises $8.1 million for cloud gaming

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as Mobile games just experienced its biggest week for downloads ever APP ANNIE Apr 3rd, 2020

Mobile games just experienced its biggest week for downloads ever

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Mobile apps will generate $171 billion through consumer spending in 2024 SO MUCH MONEY Apr 2nd, 2020

Mobile apps will generate $171 billion through consumer spending in 2024

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One year on: A deep dive into Cultist Simulator's sales since launch CULTIST SIMULATOR SALES Apr 2nd, 2020

One year on: A deep dive into Cultist Simulator's sales since launch

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Average price of announced iPad games is $3.52 10 YEARS ON Mar 31st, 2020

Average price of announced iPad games is $3.52

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Exclusive: Supercell's Brawl Stars grows by 35% amid coronavirus outbreak SUPER SUPERCELL Mar 26th, 2020

Exclusive: Supercell's Brawl Stars grows by 35% amid coronavirus outbreak

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Candy Crush Soda Saga splashes onto global top grossing chart SHAKING IT UP Mar 25th, 2020

Candy Crush Soda Saga splashes onto global top grossing chart

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Tencent reigns supreme as the top-grossing mobile publisher for 2020 APP ANNIE TOP PUBLISHERS Mar 24th, 2020

Tencent reigns supreme as the top-grossing mobile publisher for 2020

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as Exclusive: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp sees revenues surge amid New Horizons launch TOM NOOK REPORTEDLY ECSTATIC Mar 23rd, 2020

Exclusive: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp sees revenues surge amid New Horizons launch

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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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4 Things We Learned at Gamesforum Seattle 2019

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5 The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019 BEST OF 2019 Oct 1st, 2019

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019

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Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 INDIE SHOWCASE Jan 14th, 2019

Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019

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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

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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

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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

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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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King to release two non-Candy Crush titles in 2016

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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"

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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

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

Candy Crush matures more

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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

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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

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