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Women "underserved" in mobile games market, $1m potato artist joins Animoca Brands, and Empires & Puzzles hits 34m installs Hot Five Jun 24th, 2019

Women "underserved" in mobile games market, $1m potato artist joins Animoca Brands, and Empires & Puzzles hits 34m installs

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Does Apple and Google's 70/30 revenue share model work for indies?

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Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show?

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10 commandments of free-to-play, Mobile Mavens talk Pixel and Daydream View VR, and publishers are already buying up App Store Search Ads

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All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight

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The Promiscuous Gamer enters a Marvel Avengers Alliance (2) and meets his Dream Girlfriend

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

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Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG Interview Aug 25th, 2015

Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG

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Why we need more games without Nolan North's voice in them Stateside Aug 14th, 2015

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Not immune but Finland has given GamerGate the cold shoulder

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

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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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Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries

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Women "underserved" in mobile games market, $1m potato artist joins Animoca Brands, and Empires & Puzzles hits 34m installs Hot Five Jun 24th, 2019

Women "underserved" in mobile games market, $1m potato artist joins Animoca Brands, and Empires & Puzzles hits 34m installs

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

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All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight Feature Jun 16th, 2016

All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight

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48 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Tales

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E3 2019: All the mobile game news in one place

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Region Focus: Finding opportunities in Hong Kong's small games industry

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E3 2019: All the mobile game news in one place E3 MOBILE Jun 14th, 2019

E3 2019: All the mobile game news in one place

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Why Monument Valley developer Ustwo hired a CEO GRAND PLANS Jun 26th, 2019

Why Monument Valley developer Ustwo hired a CEO

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as PGC Hong Kong: Twitchy Finger founder and CEO Edward Li on future opportunities for developers PGC Hong Kong 2019 Jun 26th, 2019

PGC Hong Kong: Twitchy Finger founder and CEO Edward Li on future opportunities for developers

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as PGC Hong Kong: Superera VP Joe Tang on designing and creating a successful idle game SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Jun 25th, 2019

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The 2019 mobile game marketing strategies that work MARKETING STRATEGIES Jun 24th, 2019

The 2019 mobile game marketing strategies that work

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How to monetise your IAP-based game with ads AD MONETISATION Jun 24th, 2019

How to monetise your IAP-based game with ads

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Games for Change: How students are leading the charge for positive social change GAMES FOR CHANGE Jun 21st, 2019

Games for Change: How students are leading the charge for positive social change

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What’s Good Games’ Andrea Rene on the state of mobile, Apple Arcade and 12 years in the games industry 'BUSIEST LADY IN THE BIZ' Jun 21st, 2019

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as Four years on: How Travelling Millionaire’s regular events have garnered an engaged audience in the Middle East LIVE AND KICKING Jun 20th, 2019

Four years on: How Travelling Millionaire’s regular events have garnered an engaged audience in the Middle East

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

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The 2019 mobile game marketing strategies that work

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1 “Women are most definitely underserved in the mobile games market” STYLE SPACES Jun 19th, 2019

“Women are most definitely underserved in the mobile games market”

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What’s Good Games’ Andrea Rene on the state of mobile, Apple Arcade and 12 years in the games industry 'BUSIEST LADY IN THE BIZ' Jun 21st, 2019

What’s Good Games’ Andrea Rene on the state of mobile, Apple Arcade and 12 years in the games industry

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Games for Change: How students are leading the charge for positive social change GAMES FOR CHANGE Jun 21st, 2019

Games for Change: How students are leading the charge for positive social change

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How this award-winning studio uses Smartlook to make its games better SMART DESIGN Jun 20th, 2019

How this award-winning studio uses Smartlook to make its games better

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as Four years on: How Travelling Millionaire’s regular events have garnered an engaged audience in the Middle East LIVE AND KICKING Jun 20th, 2019

Four years on: How Travelling Millionaire’s regular events have garnered an engaged audience in the Middle East

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Indie Spotlight: Noodlecake Studios COO on transitioning to games-as-a-service for Golf Blitz INDIE SPOTLIGHT Jun 19th, 2019

Indie Spotlight: Noodlecake Studios COO on transitioning to games-as-a-service for Golf Blitz

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Check out the Instant Games and Hyper-casual track at Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong

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as Jordanian publisher Tamatem working with NokNok studio to bring I Love Mart to MENA region I LOVE MENA Jun 26th, 2019

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Niantic partners with AT&T and Simon to bring Wizards Unite incentives to retailers across the US COLLABORATION Jun 25th, 2019

Niantic partners with AT&T and Simon to bring Wizards Unite incentives to retailers across the US

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LEGO Tower-inspired model sets new Guinness World record for largest brick diorama WORLD RECORD Jun 24th, 2019

LEGO Tower-inspired model sets new Guinness World record for largest brick diorama

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Artist who sold photo of potato for $1m joins Animoca Brands as creative director

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Report: Tencent and Asus to unveil new gaming phone in July

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Ustwo names new CEO as it heads into multi-game development EXECUTIVE SHUFFLE Jun 20th, 2019

Ustwo names new CEO as it heads into multi-game development

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Twitch acquires Bebo to expand esports platform

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as Jordanian publisher Tamatem working with NokNok studio to bring I Love Mart to MENA region I LOVE MENA Jun 26th, 2019

Jordanian publisher Tamatem working with NokNok studio to bring I Love Mart to MENA region

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as Gumi Cryptos acquires $1.67 million worth of shares in Double Jump.Tokyo ACQUISITION Jun 26th, 2019

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Niantic partners with AT&T and Simon to bring Wizards Unite incentives to retailers across the US COLLABORATION Jun 25th, 2019

Niantic partners with AT&T and Simon to bring Wizards Unite incentives to retailers across the US

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Jami Laes

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Speaker Spotlight: Futureplay Games CEO Jami Laes on the past and future of the battle royale genre DEVELOP Sep 3rd, 2018

Speaker Spotlight: Futureplay Games CEO Jami Laes on the past and future of the battle royale genre

Jami Laes will be giving a talk called Battlelands Royale - Inside View Into The Process And Development Of Futureplay’s Hit Game at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki

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Futureplay on the lucrative potential of view-to-play games PGC INTERVIEW Oct 26th, 2017

Futureplay on the lucrative potential of view-to-play games

CEO Jami Laes discusses how rewarded video ads can improve monetisation

  • Advertising
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  • PG Connects
  • PG Connects Helsinki
How the development of mobile devices changed the way we play EVERYTHING CHANGES Jan 4th, 2017

How the development of mobile devices changed the way we play

Oscar Clark talks to Jami Laes

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  • Mobile History
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View-to-play pioneer Futureplay Games raises $2.5 million to boost its business FUTUREPLAY FUNDING Aug 25th, 2016

View-to-play pioneer Futureplay Games raises $2.5 million to boost its business

Increasing its team and production capabilities

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Futureplay, Next Games, and Madfinger on how to make the most of rewarded video ads in your game WANT NOT NEED Jun 1st, 2016

Futureplay, Next Games, and Madfinger on how to make the most of rewarded video ads in your game

A panel of experts talk implementation and psychology

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Jami Laes on the $100 billion future of mobile advertising VIEW TO PLAY Jan 18th, 2016

Jami Laes on the $100 billion future of mobile advertising

View-to-play showing signs of a change

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From soil to store: The making of Farm Away! MAKING OF Jan 5th, 2016

From soil to store: The making of Farm Away!

Jami Laes on the view-to-play model and the future of the game

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2015 in Review: Futureplay's Jami Laes resolves to do the right, different, delightful thing right now (and not be evil) DON'T BE EVIL Dec 18th, 2015

2015 in Review: Futureplay's Jami Laes resolves to do the right, different, delightful thing right now (and not be evil)

Future trends from the remembrance of things past

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Learn from the Finnovators - Supercell, Next Games, Rovio, Futureplay and Kukouri speaking at PGC London 2016 STAR FINNISH Nov 23rd, 2015

Learn from the Finnovators - Supercell, Next Games, Rovio, Futureplay and Kukouri speaking at PGC London 2016

Gain leading insight from the industry's leading talent

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Supercell investor Paul Heydon, Candy Crush guru turned VR king Tommy Palm, and Lumino City architect Katherine Bidwell announced for PG Connects London 2015 EXPERT VISIONS Nov 18th, 2015

Supercell investor Paul Heydon, Candy Crush guru turned VR king Tommy Palm, and Lumino City architect Katherine Bidwell announced for PG Connects London 2015

Over 130 speakers from across the globe

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1 Futureplay's Farm Away is already generating $0.082 ARPDAU from its incent ads model RAINING SUCCESS Nov 11th, 2015

Futureplay's Farm Away is already generating $0.082 ARPDAU from its incent ads model

Jami Laes is harvesting

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Futureplay prepares to launches its view-to-play revolution with Farm Away! TIME TO HARVEST Oct 29th, 2015

Futureplay prepares to launches its view-to-play revolution with Farm Away!

Fast and simple

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Why Helsinki start-up Futureplay is going ad-first but not ad-only FREE MONEY Jun 24th, 2015

Why Helsinki start-up Futureplay is going ad-first but not ad-only

Jami Laes on combining ad revenues with IAP

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Futureplay Games decloaks as Finland's mobile game dream team EXPERT SYSTEM May 22nd, 2015

Futureplay Games decloaks as Finland's mobile game dream team

Says video ads are the future

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Jami Laes leaves "magical place" Rovio for something "interesting" FLY AWAY Jan 29th, 2015

Jami Laes leaves "magical place" Rovio for something "interesting"

Rovio loses its head - of games, that is

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