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Hot Five: Candy Crush makes $20 billion, Epic lays off 800 staff, and Omada tackles gambling addiction Hot Five Oct 2nd, 2023

Hot Five: Candy Crush makes $20 billion, Epic lays off 800 staff, and Omada tackles gambling addiction

  • Hot Five
  • Gambling
  • Anniversary
  • Layoffs
  • Candy Crush
  • Netflix Games
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Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days Week that was Sep 29th, 2023

Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days

  • Advertising
  • Accessibility
  • Final Fantasy
  • iPhone 15
PG.biz Podcast - Hot gaming trends and ad formats that are losing steam News Sep 14th, 2023

PG.biz Podcast - Hot gaming trends and ad formats that are losing steam

  • Data
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Mobile Mavens: Can we preserve classic mobile games forever? Mobile Mavens Aug 22nd, 2023

Mobile Mavens: Can we preserve classic mobile games forever?

  • Mobile
  • Preservation
  • mobile gaming
PG.biz podcast - Finding and growing your niche Regulars Mar 10th, 2023

PG.biz podcast - Finding and growing your niche

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as PG.biz Podcast - gaming for good Interview Mar 3rd, 2023

PG.biz Podcast - gaming for good

  • Charity
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Week in Views - What caught our editorial eyes in the last seven days Feature Nov 4th, 2022

Week in Views - What caught our editorial eyes in the last seven days

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Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry Hall of Fame Jun 14th, 2022

Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry

  • Hall of Fame
  • N-Gage
Subscription services are growing fast, but unlikely to become the dominant form of monetisation Comment & Opinion Jun 7th, 2022

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

  • Monetisation
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  • Netflix
  • Xbox Game Pass
  • Insight
What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions? Data & Research May 6th, 2022

What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions?

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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Mar 24th, 2022

Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise? The IAP Inspector Oct 26th, 2020

How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise?

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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
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  • Pokemon
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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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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

  • Promiscuous Gamer
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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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

  • Equality
  • Finland
  • Finnsider
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Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days Week that was Sep 29th, 2023

Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days

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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

Hot Five: Candy Crush makes $20 billion, Epic lays off 800 staff, and Omada tackles gambling addiction Hot Five Oct 2nd, 2023

Hot Five: Candy Crush makes $20 billion, Epic lays off 800 staff, and Omada tackles gambling addiction

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PG.biz week that was: DeNA's up 167%, Capcom 13%, while Glu drops 5%, THQ 52%, plus a resurgent EA buys Firemint Week that was May 8th, 2011

PG.biz week that was: DeNA's up 167%, Capcom 13%, while Glu drops 5%, THQ 52%, plus a resurgent EA buys Firemint

Hot Five: Unity, Unity, Unity… Backlash dominates in PR nightmare, devs look to Unreal, and miHoYo busies itself with AI Hot Five Sep 25th, 2023

Hot Five: Unity, Unity, Unity… Backlash dominates in PR nightmare, devs look to Unreal, and miHoYo busies itself with AI

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Hot Five: Mystic Games gets blunt about blockchain, YouTube Playables roll out, and Candy Crush dethroned Hot Five Sep 11th, 2023

Hot Five: Mystic Games gets blunt about blockchain, YouTube Playables roll out, and Candy Crush dethroned

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Subscription services are growing fast, but unlikely to become the dominant form of monetisation Comment & Opinion Jun 7th, 2022

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

  • Monetisation
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  • Insight
Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry Hall of Fame Jun 14th, 2022

Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE] SOFT LAUNCH Oct 2nd, 2023

The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE]

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Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time REIGNING REVENUE RAISERS Oct 2nd, 2023

Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time

  • Clash of Clans
  • Revenue
  • Pokémon GO
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World wonders, Dead Sea dips and the fastest growing global games market - Join us for a winter workation at PGC Jordan WHAT'S ON IN JORDAN Oct 1st, 2023

World wonders, Dead Sea dips and the fastest growing global games market - Join us for a winter workation at PGC Jordan

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Mass games industry job losses in 2023, but is the end in sight? FEATURE Sep 29th, 2023

Mass games industry job losses in 2023, but is the end in sight?

  • Jobs
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Ultrahorse Entertainment: Navigating the new wave of game industry changes (Part 2) DEEP DIVE Sep 28th, 2023

Ultrahorse Entertainment: Navigating the new wave of game industry changes (Part 2)

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Ultrahorse Entertainment: Navigating the new wave of game industry changes (Part 1) DEEP DIVE Sep 27th, 2023

Ultrahorse Entertainment: Navigating the new wave of game industry changes (Part 1)

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From ambitious trio to goliath platform: Unity’s 21-year story so far FEATURE Sep 27th, 2023

From ambitious trio to goliath platform: Unity’s 21-year story so far

  • History
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Saudi stakes a $50 billion+ claim in the gaming world - Nintendo, Activision, EA & more INVESTMENT Sep 27th, 2023

Saudi stakes a $50 billion+ claim in the gaming world - Nintendo, Activision, EA & more

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Unity's big cash grab: Unity Runtime Fee explained, what it could mean, and how you can dodge it UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 13th, 2023

Unity's big cash grab: Unity Runtime Fee explained, what it could mean, and how you can dodge it

  • Developers
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Ten things you may have missed in the #1 mobile game “MONOPOLY GO!” MONOPOLY GO'S TOP TEN SECRETS Sep 26th, 2023

Ten things you may have missed in the #1 mobile game “MONOPOLY GO!”

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Saudi stakes a $50 billion+ claim in the gaming world - Nintendo, Activision, EA & more INVESTMENT Sep 27th, 2023

Saudi stakes a $50 billion+ claim in the gaming world - Nintendo, Activision, EA & more

  • Investment
  • PGC
  • MENA
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Mass games industry job losses in 2023, but is the end in sight? FEATURE Sep 29th, 2023

Mass games industry job losses in 2023, but is the end in sight?

  • Jobs
  • Jobs in Games
  • Layoffs
  • Games Industry
Ultrahorse Entertainment: Navigating the new wave of game industry changes (Part 1) DEEP DIVE Sep 27th, 2023

Ultrahorse Entertainment: Navigating the new wave of game industry changes (Part 1)

  • Cross-platform
  • Console
  • Browser
  • Cross-play
  • Mobile
  • PC
  • Game Development
  • Development Strategy
From ambitious trio to goliath platform: Unity’s 21-year story so far FEATURE Sep 27th, 2023

From ambitious trio to goliath platform: Unity’s 21-year story so far

  • History
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Ultrahorse Entertainment: Navigating the new wave of game industry changes (Part 2) DEEP DIVE Sep 28th, 2023

Ultrahorse Entertainment: Navigating the new wave of game industry changes (Part 2)

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  • Browser
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  • Game Development
  • Company Development
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7 reasons not to miss MENA, the world's fastest growing games market (+7% in '23) MENA MARKET Sep 26th, 2023

7 reasons not to miss MENA, the world's fastest growing games market (+7% in '23)

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  • Pocket Gamer Connects
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  • PGC Jordan 2023
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MoreFun's Hanjin Zhang on the success and future of Arena Breakout Q&A Oct 3rd, 2023

MoreFun's Hanjin Zhang on the success and future of Arena Breakout

  • Milestone
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The games industry needs to stop seeing gamers as mere data points on a spreadsheet INDUSTRY INSIGHT Oct 2nd, 2023

The games industry needs to stop seeing gamers as mere data points on a spreadsheet

  • Data
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TapNation on the journey beyond one billion downloads Q&A Oct 2nd, 2023

TapNation on the journey beyond one billion downloads

  • Milestone
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The gaming and esports industry needs to start taking mobile esports more seriously ESPORTS Sep 29th, 2023

The gaming and esports industry needs to start taking mobile esports more seriously

  • MENA
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With Jim Ryan's exit approaching, could PlayStation's next CEO finally realise their mobile potential? PSGO Sep 29th, 2023

With Jim Ryan's exit approaching, could PlayStation's next CEO finally realise their mobile potential?

Deconstructing Travel Town: How to engage merge-2 whales DECONSTRUCTION Sep 28th, 2023

Deconstructing Travel Town: How to engage merge-2 whales

  • Game Design
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Amir Rahimi: “Our goal is to have a game on Netflix for every one of our members.” INTERVIEW Sep 28th, 2023

Amir Rahimi: “Our goal is to have a game on Netflix for every one of our members.”

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1 in 190: Why networking is essential for jobs in games TO BE THE VERY BEST Sep 27th, 2023

1 in 190: Why networking is essential for jobs in games

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Unity's big cash grab: Unity Runtime Fee explained, what it could mean, and how you can dodge it UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 13th, 2023

Unity's big cash grab: Unity Runtime Fee explained, what it could mean, and how you can dodge it

  • Developers
  • fees
  • Unity Runtime Fee
Amir Rahimi: “Our goal is to have a game on Netflix for every one of our members.” INTERVIEW Sep 28th, 2023

Amir Rahimi: “Our goal is to have a game on Netflix for every one of our members.”

  • IP
  • Interactive Fiction
  • IP
  • New Game
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Bidstack's big cheeses talk the past and future of intrinsic advertising INSIDER VIEW Sep 27th, 2023

Bidstack's big cheeses talk the past and future of intrinsic advertising

  • NFL
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Five trillion levels later… Celebrating 20 years of King and 10 years of Candy Crush KING OF KING Sep 27th, 2023

Five trillion levels later… Celebrating 20 years of King and 10 years of Candy Crush

  • Pet Rescue Saga
Deconstructing Travel Town: How to engage merge-2 whales DECONSTRUCTION Sep 28th, 2023

Deconstructing Travel Town: How to engage merge-2 whales

  • Game Design
  • Merge Genre
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With Jim Ryan's exit approaching, could PlayStation's next CEO finally realise their mobile potential? PSGO Sep 29th, 2023

With Jim Ryan's exit approaching, could PlayStation's next CEO finally realise their mobile potential?

Frederick Hoffman on Newfangled’s small beginnings to striking deals with Netflix INTERVIEW Sep 25th, 2023

Frederick Hoffman on Newfangled’s small beginnings to striking deals with Netflix

  • Cross-platform
  • Netflix
  • Indie
  • puzzle games
CEO Martin Kwasnica on the return of Cherrypick Games Q&A Sep 26th, 2023

CEO Martin Kwasnica on the return of Cherrypick Games

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AI dev tools provider Zibra AI celebrates 100,000 user milestone USER MILESTONES Oct 3rd, 2023

AI dev tools provider Zibra AI celebrates 100,000 user milestone

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Zynga’s Socialpoint launches merge RPG Top Troops today SOCIALPOINT STRATEGY Oct 3rd, 2023

Zynga’s Socialpoint launches merge RPG Top Troops today

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Australia announces three new government programmes to support local devs AUSTRALIA APPLICATIONS Oct 3rd, 2023

Australia announces three new government programmes to support local devs

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Playrix celebrates 10 years of Township and major $2 billion revenue MAJOR MILESTONE Oct 3rd, 2023

Playrix celebrates 10 years of Township and major $2 billion revenue

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Apple's App Store steps into line to comply with Chinese regulations AN APPLE A DAY Oct 3rd, 2023

Apple's App Store steps into line to comply with Chinese regulations

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Samsung set to launch its game streaming service this week CLOUD GAMING Oct 3rd, 2023

Samsung set to launch its game streaming service this week

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Maysalward is supporting young NEOM talent with new Game Dev Challenge NOW IN NEOM Oct 3rd, 2023

Maysalward is supporting young NEOM talent with new Game Dev Challenge

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Team17 CEO Michael Pattison departs ahead of consultancy and restructure LAYOFFS Oct 2nd, 2023

Team17 CEO Michael Pattison departs ahead of consultancy and restructure

  • Restructuring
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Epic and Sega announce 900 more games industry lay-offs LAYOFFS Sep 28th, 2023

Epic and Sega announce 900 more games industry lay-offs

Monster Hunter Now set to be Niantic’s third biggest game with $14 million in first month revenue MONSTER HUNTER NOW Oct 2nd, 2023

Monster Hunter Now set to be Niantic’s third biggest game with $14 million in first month revenue

  • Downloads
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  • Monster Hunter
  • Monster Hunter Now
Meta owns all four of the top ad networks for mobile games in Q2 2023 AD REPORT Sep 28th, 2023

Meta owns all four of the top ad networks for mobile games in Q2 2023

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as Appodeal & Pollen VC partner to offer a new kind of mobile growth platform CREDIT WHERE ITS DUE Sep 27th, 2023

Appodeal & Pollen VC partner to offer a new kind of mobile growth platform

  • Monetisation
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Omada raises $7.5M for a sports game with a twist: tackling gambling addiction BETTER THAN BETTING Sep 27th, 2023

Omada raises $7.5M for a sports game with a twist: tackling gambling addiction

  • Investment
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  • Seed Round
  • Gambling
  • Mental Health
Xsolla announces acquisition of multiplayer platform AcceleratXR ACQUISITION Sep 27th, 2023

Xsolla announces acquisition of multiplayer platform AcceleratXR

  • Acquisition
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Playtika closes acquisition of Innplay Labs ACQUISITION Sep 29th, 2023

Playtika closes acquisition of Innplay Labs

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Bidstack's big cheeses talk the past and future of intrinsic advertising INSIDER VIEW Sep 27th, 2023

Bidstack's big cheeses talk the past and future of intrinsic advertising

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AppsFlyer’s Adam Smart on why cross-platform is the future INTERVIEW May 24th, 2023

AppsFlyer’s Adam Smart on why cross-platform is the future

  • Privacy
  • Interview
  • Apple
  • Multi-platform
The key to successful hypercasual prototypes FEATURE May 23rd, 2023

The key to successful hypercasual prototypes

  • Prototype
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Rusty Lake co-founder Robin Ras celebrates success and shares what's next for the studio Q&A May 23rd, 2023

Rusty Lake co-founder Robin Ras celebrates success and shares what's next for the studio

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Sybo and Outplay on the collaboration behind Subway Surfers Blast Q&A May 19th, 2023

Sybo and Outplay on the collaboration behind Subway Surfers Blast

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Fingersoft CEO Jaakko Kylmäoja on the future of their hit Hill Climb Racing Q&A May 17th, 2023

Fingersoft CEO Jaakko Kylmäoja on the future of their hit Hill Climb Racing

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Are in-game ads the answer for developers? We asked Marc Merrill of Riot Games PUT PLAYERS FIRST Mar 30th, 2023

Are in-game ads the answer for developers? We asked Marc Merrill of Riot Games

  • Advertising
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A recipe for success: bringing intrinsic in-game ads to Cooking Diary INTRINSIC IN GAME ADS Feb 7th, 2023

A recipe for success: bringing intrinsic in-game ads to Cooking Diary

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Five reasons why it’s more critical than ever to look to in-game advertising MAKE MORE OF MONETISATION Jan 11th, 2023

Five reasons why it’s more critical than ever to look to in-game advertising

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Playtika closes acquisition of Innplay Labs ACQUISITION Sep 29th, 2023

Playtika closes acquisition of Innplay Labs

  • Acquisition
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Omada raises $7.5M for a sports game with a twist: tackling gambling addiction BETTER THAN BETTING Sep 27th, 2023

Omada raises $7.5M for a sports game with a twist: tackling gambling addiction

  • Investment
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Xsolla announces acquisition of multiplayer platform AcceleratXR ACQUISITION Sep 27th, 2023

Xsolla announces acquisition of multiplayer platform AcceleratXR

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Supercell acquires majority stake in Australian developer Ultimate Studio ACQUISITION Sep 25th, 2023

Supercell acquires majority stake in Australian developer Ultimate Studio

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Spectarium raises €5M in Seed Round to bolster personalised AI RPG Myths MAKING MYTHS Sep 20th, 2023

Spectarium raises €5M in Seed Round to bolster personalised AI RPG Myths

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Playtika set to acquire Innplay Labs for up to $300 million ACQUISITION Sep 15th, 2023

Playtika set to acquire Innplay Labs for up to $300 million

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Mythic Protocol raises $6.5M towards blockchain, collaboration and cross-platform ambitions MYTHIC MANOEUVRES Sep 13th, 2023

Mythic Protocol raises $6.5M towards blockchain, collaboration and cross-platform ambitions

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  • Cross-platform
  • Seed Round
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Zynga, FunPlus and NetEase veterans receive $8M investment for NFT dinosaur game DINO DESIGNS Sep 12th, 2023

Zynga, FunPlus and NetEase veterans receive $8M investment for NFT dinosaur game

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Meta owns all four of the top ad networks for mobile games in Q2 2023 AD REPORT Sep 28th, 2023

Meta owns all four of the top ad networks for mobile games in Q2 2023

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Gaming is the fastest growing app category worldwide MOBILE GROWTH Sep 27th, 2023

Gaming is the fastest growing app category worldwide

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Games favoured by women set to exceed $16 billion in revenue this year FEMALE GAMERS Sep 27th, 2023

Games favoured by women set to exceed $16 billion in revenue this year

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71% of the biggest mobile games use a Unity SDK NOW IN NUMBERS Sep 26th, 2023

71% of the biggest mobile games use a Unity SDK

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Chile leads the way in installs in Latin America with a 35% increase LATAM ANALYSIS Sep 25th, 2023

Chile leads the way in installs in Latin America with a 35% increase

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miHoYo co-authors science paper outlining bold AI intentions AI DEVELOPMENT Sep 21st, 2023

miHoYo co-authors science paper outlining bold AI intentions

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Indian gaming market set to generate $868 million in revenue in 2023 INDIAN MARKET Sep 21st, 2023

Indian gaming market set to generate $868 million in revenue in 2023

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  • India
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Brawl Stars is Supercell’s latest $2bn hit DOUBLE-UNICORN Sep 19th, 2023

Brawl Stars is Supercell’s latest $2bn hit

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  • Double-unicorn
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From Wooga to Innplay Labs: Inside Playtika’s shopping spree PLAYTIKA ACQUISITIONS Oct 2nd, 2023

From Wooga to Innplay Labs: Inside Playtika’s shopping spree

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2023 BEST OF 2023 Aug 23rd, 2023

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2023

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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard: The complete timeline ACQUIBLIZZ Jul 31st, 2023

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard: The complete timeline

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Marvel Strike Force, Stumble Guys, and GSN: What has Savvy Games Group bought? SAVVY X SCOPELY Apr 6th, 2023

Marvel Strike Force, Stumble Guys, and GSN: What has Savvy Games Group bought?

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Why player-driven economies are a powerful tool for developers

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How to form a successful influencer marketing strategy in 2023

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Digital asset trading: The untapped multi-billion market within videogames

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Why mobile developers should be optimistic about 2023 OPENLY OPTIMISTIC Jan 5th, 2023

Why mobile developers should be optimistic about 2023

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Kim Soares on the launch of Finnish social gaming studio Social First

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Social First launches with $2.5 million backing to create cross-platform, social games

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PGC Digital: 50% of Kukouri Mobile Entertainment downloads originated from player's friends

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Kim Soares on how to be smart as an indie

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

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