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Hot Five: Zynga acquires Rollic, EA discusses WB Games purchase, and Blizzard staff request pay rise Hot Five Aug 10th, 2020

Hot Five: Zynga acquires Rollic, EA discusses WB Games purchase, and Blizzard staff request pay rise

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

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

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Fallout Shelter's success, E3's future, and #PCGSanFran speakers in the spotlight Week that was Jun 20th, 2015

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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

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

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Hot Five: Zynga acquires Rollic, EA discusses WB Games purchase, and Blizzard staff request pay rise Hot Five Aug 10th, 2020

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Update: All 129 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Aug 10th, 2020

Update: All 129 Apple Arcade games available now

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54 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Hay Day Pop and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad

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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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Mobile Game of the Week: Brawlhalla

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

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

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Update: All 129 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Aug 10th, 2020

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Live and Kicking: How World of Tanks Blitz has battled its way up through the charts for six years 1.5 MILLION USERS Aug 13th, 2020

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as User Acquisition in China: Capturing the world's largest mobile gaming audience CHINA UA Aug 12th, 2020

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Interview: How Zynga mixed casual card gaming with strong social mechanics in Bluff Plus BLUFF PLUS Aug 12th, 2020

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Indie Spotlight: How Amanita Design's Radim Jurda created the prototype for Creaks as his diploma thesis APPLE ARCADE Aug 12th, 2020

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Remote Working: Playrix's Mikhail Klyuev on how to become a game producer JOBS IN GAMES Aug 11th, 2020

Remote Working: Playrix's Mikhail Klyuev on how to become a game producer

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as POC in Mobile: Why Amanotes publishing manager Micke Joseph Moisa believes creative freedom is key to better diversity #BLACKLIVESMATTER Aug 7th, 2020

POC in Mobile: Why Amanotes publishing manager Micke Joseph Moisa believes creative freedom is key to better diversity

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Who will be the winners and losers in the post-IDFA app industry? POST-IDFA WINNERS Aug 6th, 2020

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Making Of: Glu SVP Mike Olsen on tackling the RPG genre with Disney Sorcerer's Arena INTO THE UNKNOWN Aug 6th, 2020

Making Of: Glu SVP Mike Olsen on tackling the RPG genre with Disney Sorcerer's Arena

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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

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as POC in Mobile: Why Amanotes publishing manager Micke Joseph Moisa believes creative freedom is key to better diversity #BLACKLIVESMATTER Aug 7th, 2020

POC in Mobile: Why Amanotes publishing manager Micke Joseph Moisa believes creative freedom is key to better diversity

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Remote Working: Playrix's Mikhail Klyuev on how to become a game producer JOBS IN GAMES Aug 11th, 2020

Remote Working: Playrix's Mikhail Klyuev on how to become a game producer

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Making Of: Glu SVP Mike Olsen on tackling the RPG genre with Disney Sorcerer's Arena INTO THE UNKNOWN Aug 6th, 2020

Making Of: Glu SVP Mike Olsen on tackling the RPG genre with Disney Sorcerer's Arena

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as Tencent's revenue up 28 per cent year-on-year as it generates $31.5 billion FINANCIALS Aug 13th, 2020

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New research demonstrates the positive impact of videogames on young people's literacy THE MORE YOU KNOW Aug 12th, 2020

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Subway Surfers has surpassed three billion downloads

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Sybo hires ex-Gram Games VP of product Jeremy Stein to head up its Copenhagen studio WELCOME ABOARD Aug 12th, 2020

Sybo hires ex-Gram Games VP of product Jeremy Stein to head up its Copenhagen studio

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as Chinese gamers will need to use their real names to log in for online gaming from September NO MORE NICKNAMES Aug 10th, 2020

Chinese gamers will need to use their real names to log in for online gaming from September

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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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as DeNA's game profits are on the rise earning $200.5 million in Q1 FY2020 FINANCIALS Aug 10th, 2020

DeNA's game profits are on the rise earning $200.5 million in Q1 FY2020

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Sybo hires ex-Gram Games VP of product Jeremy Stein to head up its Copenhagen studio WELCOME ABOARD Aug 12th, 2020

Sybo hires ex-Gram Games VP of product Jeremy Stein to head up its Copenhagen studio

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Subway Surfers has surpassed three billion downloads STILL RUNNING Aug 12th, 2020

Subway Surfers has surpassed three billion downloads

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Epic Games secures $1.78 billion in new funding round THAT'S EPIC Aug 6th, 2020

Epic Games secures $1.78 billion in new funding round

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Sega president Kenji Matsubara resigns, Improbable welcomes new head of publishing, and more Ubisoft exits TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Aug 7th, 2020

Mobile games jobs weekly: Sega president Kenji Matsubara resigns, Improbable welcomes new head of publishing, and more Ubisoft exits

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as Mobile games revenue grew by $135 million across Malaysia and Singapore $100 MILLION RISE Aug 3rd, 2020

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