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PG.biz Podcast - From breakout to billions

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2017 - the year not much happened in mobile games, says Verto

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Stadia may be gone, but will the entire cloud gaming sector go with it?

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

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The latest and most interesting mobile games on the blockchain. [UPDATED AUGUST 3] BLOCKCHAIN MOBILE GAMES Dec 7th, 2022

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PlayStation Mobile team continues hiring spree

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Fortnite Chapter 4: Rebooting a smash hit to keep players playing

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE] SOFT LAUNCH Dec 5th, 2022

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How will Web3 impact mobile gaming in the future?

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What does it mean for Activision-Blizzard and Take-Two to be mobile first?

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In-Depth: All the winners from the Google Play Awards 2022 AWARDS Dec 5th, 2022

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10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time MONOPOLY MONEY Dec 8th, 2022

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PlayStation Mobile team continues hiring spree MOBILE MOVES Dec 6th, 2022

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Marika Appel has been at Supercell for over ten years, and is still as passionate as ever WOMEN IN GAMES Dec 7th, 2022

Marika Appel has been at Supercell for over ten years, and is still as passionate as ever

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The future of the African mobile gaming market with Waheed Adam INSIGHTS Dec 6th, 2022

The future of the African mobile gaming market with Waheed Adam

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Genre mashing and meta morphing: How Match 3 and casual games are evolving

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Live Tech CEO Samuel Worsley on ITV's KnockOut Live World Cup and the future of the second screen

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Live Tech CEO Samuel Worsley on ITV's KnockOut Live World Cup and the future of the second screen INTERVIEW Dec 2nd, 2022

Live Tech CEO Samuel Worsley on ITV's KnockOut Live World Cup and the future of the second screen

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Dispelling Myths about Indie Game Accelerators GUEST POST Dec 2nd, 2022

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"Not measuring up in long term engagement": Space Ape's Simon Hade on Boom Beach: Frontlines shutdown INTERVIEW Nov 30th, 2022

"Not measuring up in long term engagement": Space Ape's Simon Hade on Boom Beach: Frontlines shutdown

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Genre mashing and meta morphing: How Match 3 and casual games are evolving MATCH MADNESS Dec 5th, 2022

Genre mashing and meta morphing: How Match 3 and casual games are evolving

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How Apple’s ATT could end the current free-to-play gaming era END OF AN ERA Nov 30th, 2022

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Sophie Brugmann: having diverse leadership teams can lead to incredible symbiosis at the top

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Magic Eden appoints Chris Akhavan as Chief Gaming Officer

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ElectricNoir's Scriptic: Crime Stories is "a new category of digital entertainment" now on Netflix Games NEW TO NETFLIX Dec 8th, 2022

ElectricNoir's Scriptic: Crime Stories is "a new category of digital entertainment" now on Netflix Games

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GameRefinery’s November 2022 report delves into the state of the mobile market GAMEREFINERY REPORT Dec 8th, 2022

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Epic debuts family-friendly cabined accounts for its games MULTIPLAYER Dec 8th, 2022

Epic debuts family-friendly cabined accounts for its games

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Nintendo’s most successful mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes celebrates Version 7.0.0 update LUCKY SEVEN Dec 8th, 2022

Nintendo’s most successful mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes celebrates Version 7.0.0 update

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Guillermo Arias joins Digital Development Management’s investment services division

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Tencent aims to branch from mobile for their big international push

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SYBO appoints Rovio Vet, Philip Hickey, as new Chief Marketing Officer

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Desta developer Ustwo reveals why they took the game to Netflix NETFLIX Dec 2nd, 2022

Desta developer Ustwo reveals why they took the game to Netflix

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Call of Duty Warzone Mobile soft launches in Australia SOFT-LAUNCHES Dec 1st, 2022

Call of Duty Warzone Mobile soft launches in Australia

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UK and Germany on track to generate a combined $12.1 billion to the global gaming market in 2022 NEWZOO REPORT Dec 1st, 2022

UK and Germany on track to generate a combined $12.1 billion to the global gaming market in 2022

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as Celebrations and content galore as Netmarble’s Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds reaches 200 days CROSS WORLDS CELEBRATION Dec 1st, 2022

Celebrations and content galore as Netmarble’s Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds reaches 200 days

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Cheat codes to master the hybridcasual genre

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Hybridcasual: a winning formula? HYBRID CASUAL HELP Nov 24th, 2022

Hybridcasual: a winning formula?

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How to hire a CFO for your mobile games studio SUPERSTAR CFOs Aug 16th, 2022

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

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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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The Mirror platform aims to someday be "akin to a next-gen Roblox" A PLATFORM TO EMPOWER Dec 8th, 2022

The Mirror platform aims to someday be "akin to a next-gen Roblox"

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Flick partners with PlanetPlay as part of environmental commitment PLAYING FOR THE PLANET Dec 7th, 2022

Flick partners with PlanetPlay as part of environmental commitment

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Keywords Studios to acquire Californian company Helpshift for $75 million NEW ACQUISITION Dec 7th, 2022

Keywords Studios to acquire Californian company Helpshift for $75 million

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Animoca Brands acquires majority stake in music metaverse platform PIXELYNX MUSIC METAVERSE Dec 6th, 2022

Animoca Brands acquires majority stake in music metaverse platform PIXELYNX

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Roboto Games raises $15 million in Series A funding round SUCCESSFUL FUNDING ROUND Nov 29th, 2022

Roboto Games raises $15 million in Series A funding round

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X-Flow invests $6 million in casual developer Plummy Games after Star Merge launch

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Zynga subsidiary Rollic acquires hypercasual games studio Popcore ACQUISITIONS Nov 17th, 2022

Zynga subsidiary Rollic acquires hypercasual games studio Popcore

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Anything World raises $7.5 million to make 3D content creation more accessible than ever before ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE Nov 10th, 2022

Anything World raises $7.5 million to make 3D content creation more accessible than ever before

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GameRefinery’s November 2022 report delves into the state of the mobile market

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The top ten gaming industry deals of 2022 (so far) DRAKE STAR REPORT Dec 8th, 2022

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as $1.5 billion revenue and 1.1 billion downloads weekly - how healthy is the mobile games market? BILLIONS AND BEYOND Dec 7th, 2022

$1.5 billion revenue and 1.1 billion downloads weekly - how healthy is the mobile games market?

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Bucking the downturn: Q3 Daily Active Users and Downloads are both on the up SOCIALPETA REPORT Nov 23rd, 2022

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Asia Pacific to generate 48 percent of 2022's global gaming revenue NEWZOO REPORT Nov 21st, 2022

Asia Pacific to generate 48 percent of 2022's global gaming revenue

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Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – November 21 2022 NEWS Nov 21st, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – November 21 2022

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What is the world’s top mobile game franchise? TOP CAT Nov 21st, 2022

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Subscription-based gaming to reach $24.1 billion by 2030 - mobile is the fastest growing segment SUBSCRIPTION-BASED GAMING Nov 18th, 2022

Subscription-based gaming to reach $24.1 billion by 2030 - mobile is the fastest growing segment

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Pocket Gamer Connects Advent Calendar: Day 8: Last chance to secure £350 off your Pocket Gamer Connects London ticket! TIME TO CELEBRATE Dec 8th, 2022

Pocket Gamer Connects Advent Calendar: Day 8: Last chance to secure £350 off your Pocket Gamer Connects London ticket!

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as The Top 30 MENA Game Makers of 2022 BEST OF MENA 2022 Dec 2nd, 2022

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

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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 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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Articles featuring Mike Rose

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Will Pokemon GO's success have any influence on the way indies make games? HYPE BALLS Jul 22nd, 2016

Will Pokemon GO's success have any influence on the way indies make games?

Our Indie Mavens weigh in

  • Mavens
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  • Indie Mavens
  • Pokémon GO
TinyBuild's Twitch guru Mike Rose joins Ripstone Games NEW HAT Jul 12th, 2016

TinyBuild's Twitch guru Mike Rose joins Ripstone Games

Seeking third-party PC, console, and mobile games to publish

  • Publishing
  • Jobs
  • PR
  • Liverpool
Are codeless development tools making the mobile indie development scene stronger? SAY NO TO CODE Jun 10th, 2016

Are codeless development tools making the mobile indie development scene stronger?

Opening development to a new generation

  • Development
  • Tools
  • Indie Mavens
  • Codeless
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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  • Mavens
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  • 2016 in Preview
Developers and journalists on working with YouTubers and the mobile media YOUTUBE PANEL Jan 19th, 2016

Developers and journalists on working with YouTubers and the mobile media

The way of the future

  • Indies
  • Twitch
  • Influencers
  • PGC
  • PGC London
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
  • Great Leap
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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

  • Mavens
  • Twitch
  • Streaming
  • Marketing
  • Indie Mavens
Bluffing in games is difficult, says TinyBuild's Mike Rose LIAR, LIAR Aug 3rd, 2015

Bluffing in games is difficult, says TinyBuild's Mike Rose

Mike Rose takes to the stage at GDC Europe

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  • Strategy Genre
Who are your game industry heroes? SHOULDERS OF GIANTS Jul 17th, 2015

Who are your game industry heroes?

Indie Mavens spread the love

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Is E3 the place for mobile games and indie developers? INBETWEEN BLOCKBUSTERS Jun 19th, 2015

Is E3 the place for mobile games and indie developers?

Do our Indie Mavens measure up

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  • E3
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Can indies compete in mobile with the likes of Nintendo, Konami and Square Enix? FIGHTING ON YOUR STRENGTHS May 22nd, 2015

Can indies compete in mobile with the likes of Nintendo, Konami and Square Enix?

Indie Mavens talk agility and going cross-platform

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  • Mavens
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  • Mobile-first
Does Apple really care about indie game developers? EYE OF THE BEHOLDER May 8th, 2015

Does Apple really care about indie game developers?

Our Indie Mavens debate Apple's attitude

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  • iOS
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  • Indie Mavens
  • Planned Obsolescence
Why should anyone care about your game? ATTRACTING EYEBALLS Apr 24th, 2015

Why should anyone care about your game?

Indie Mavens discuss how to make an impact

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Indie Mavens on the value of GDC for contacts, trends and great burritos BIG SHOW Feb 27th, 2015

Indie Mavens on the value of GDC for contacts, trends and great burritos

Time for San Francisco

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2014 in Review: Mike Rose, tinyBuild - Breaking down the barriers between mobile and hardcore gaming INTERVIEW Dec 16th, 2014

2014 in Review: Mike Rose, tinyBuild - Breaking down the barriers between mobile and hardcore gaming

Future trends from the remembrance of things past

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