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Articles featuring Thomas Nielsen

Articles featuring Thomas Nielsen

2 Is Telltale's closure part of a wider industry trend or a cautionary tale? MOBILE MAVENS Oct 3rd, 2018

Is Telltale's closure part of a wider industry trend or a cautionary tale?

The mobile mavens offer their opinions

  • Narrative
  • Mobile Mavens
  • Studio Closure
What's been the impact of the App Store on the games industry and where does it go from here? MOBILE MAVENS Jul 20th, 2018

What's been the impact of the App Store on the games industry and where does it go from here?

The Mobile Mavens have their say

  • App Store
  • Mobile Mavens
  • App Store 10 year anniversary
What's the value of a movie license for a free-to-play mobile game? MOBILE MAVENS Oct 26th, 2016

What's the value of a movie license for a free-to-play mobile game?

And why are such deals so popular?

  • Licensing
  • Mavens
  • Movie
  • Brands
  • Mobile Mavens
Do mobile game developers actually care about Nintendo? MOBILE MAVENS Aug 8th, 2016

Do mobile game developers actually care about Nintendo?

Does NX bridge the gap to mobile, or is it more of the same?

  • Mavens
  • Mobile Mavens
  • Nintendo NX
Does Pokemon GO's success validate Nintendo's approach to mobile games? MOBILE MAVENS Jul 12th, 2016

Does Pokemon GO's success validate Nintendo's approach to mobile games?

Mobile games industry reacts to the location-based smash

  • Mavens
  • Mobile Mavens
  • Pokémon Go
Can Google's Daydream accelerate a slow-to-start 'year of VR'? MOBILE MAVENS May 25th, 2016

Can Google's Daydream accelerate a slow-to-start 'year of VR'?

Are the Mobile Mavens Daydream believers, or wide awake?

  • Virtual Reality
  • Mavens
  • Gear VR
  • Mobile Mavens
  • Daydream
10 years of Pocket Gamer: Thomas Nielsen on the rise of a game console in every pocket THE LONG VIEW Mar 21st, 2016

10 years of Pocket Gamer: Thomas Nielsen on the rise of a game console in every pocket

From Sola Rola to HTML5 slots

  • Mobile History
  • Pocket Gamer 10
  • Java
10 years of Pocket Gamer: Mobile Mavens discuss where we've all come from TIME FLIES Mar 10th, 2016

10 years of Pocket Gamer: Mobile Mavens discuss where we've all come from

Remembering a decade of mobile gaming

  • Mavens
  • Mobile Mavens
  • Mobile History
  • Pocket Gamer 10
  • Java
  • PG is 10
Will Apple TV be a strong platform for gaming? NEXTGEN WII? Sep 15th, 2015

Will Apple TV be a strong platform for gaming?

Mobile Mavens debate the power of the big screen

  • Mavens
  • Apple TV
  • Mobile Mavens
Is Apple's aggressive attitude to deprecating devices good or bad for game devs? May 5th, 2015

Is Apple's aggressive attitude to deprecating devices good or bad for game devs?

Mobile Mavens discuss where Apple could do more

  • Indies
  • iOS
  • Mavens
  • Mobile Mavens
  • Planned Obsolescence
1 How will Nintendo's beloved franchises go F2P? IT'S ME MARIO! Mar 17th, 2015

How will Nintendo's beloved franchises go F2P?

Mobile Mavens debate Nintendo's entry to mobile games

  • Mavens
  • Games-as-a-Service
  • Mobile Mavens
  • Great Leap
Does the quality of a game trump the quantity of games? MORE OR FEWER Feb 25th, 2015

Does the quality of a game trump the quantity of games?

Our Mavens get feisty over the way ahead

  • Quality
  • Mavens
  • Portfolio
  • Mobile Mavens
3 Why mobile games have no future on your TV screen MOBILE GAMING MAVENS Nov 11th, 2014

Why mobile games have no future on your TV screen

Industry luminaries talk Apple, Google and Amazon's assault on your TV

  • Microconsole
  • Fire TV
  • Android TV
  • Apple TV
What Unity did next: Industry reacts to Riccitiello appointment MOBILE MAVENS Oct 27th, 2014

What Unity did next: Industry reacts to Riccitiello appointment

Is Unity looking to sell, float or..?

  • Unity
  • Transition
  • Riccitiello Riddle
Apple's iPad reveal: What the industry wanted and what we got MOBILE MAVENS Oct 20th, 2014

Apple's iPad reveal: What the industry wanted and what we got

Did reality match up to the hype?

  • Apple
  • Mavens
  • iPad
  • Mobile Mavens
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