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as Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show? The Charticle May 20th, 2019

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

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Clash of Clans a US top grosser, weighing up Zynga's Gram acquisition, and Game for Peace makes $14m in three days Hot Five May 20th, 2019

Clash of Clans a US top grosser, weighing up Zynga's Gram acquisition, and Game for Peace makes $14m in three days

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How do indie developers address accessibility in video games? Mobile Mavens May 10th, 2019

How do indie developers address accessibility in video games?

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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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Hall of Fame: King CEO Riccardo Zacconi on building a mobile gaming powerhouse Hall of Fame Oct 27th, 2016

Hall of Fame: King CEO Riccardo Zacconi on building a mobile gaming powerhouse

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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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10 commandments of free-to-play, Mobile Mavens talk Pixel and Daydream View VR, and publishers are already buying up App Store Search Ads Regulars Oct 17th, 2016

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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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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

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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? Comment & Opinion Aug 28th, 2015

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

Why we need more games without Nolan North's voice in them

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

Fallout Shelter's success, E3's future, and #PCGSanFran speakers in the spotlight

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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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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

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Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm

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3 Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14 Monetizer Jan 30th, 2015

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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? Comment & Opinion Aug 28th, 2015

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

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  • Amazon Underground
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Why Supercell ignored monetisation but Season Challenges made Clash of Clans the top grossing game anyway The Charticle Apr 30th, 2019

Why Supercell ignored monetisation but Season Challenges made Clash of Clans the top grossing game anyway

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3 as Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries The Charticle Mar 8th, 2018

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

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Stateside: Nintendo doesn't need to go mobile, mobile needs to go Nintendo

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

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Clash of Clans a US top grosser, weighing up Zynga's Gram acquisition, and Game for Peace makes $14m in three days Hot Five May 20th, 2019

Clash of Clans a US top grosser, weighing up Zynga's Gram acquisition, and Game for Peace makes $14m in three days

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Tencent shuts down PUBG Mobile in China, Supercell invests $3.8m in Luau Games, and Clash of Clans rakes in $71m in April Hot Five May 13th, 2019

Tencent shuts down PUBG Mobile in China, Supercell invests $3.8m in Luau Games, and Clash of Clans rakes in $71m in April

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as Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later 10 YEARS OF MINECRAFT May 17th, 2019

Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later

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Games industry roundup: US Senator introduces loot box bill, blockchain gaming's state of play, and influencer distrust ROUNDUP May 13th, 2019

Games industry roundup: US Senator introduces loot box bill, blockchain gaming's state of play, and influencer distrust

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Sam Barlow talks publishing and selling narrative games ahead of his next title Telling Lies TELLING TALES May 10th, 2019

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Games industry roundup: Inside Switzerland's games industry, CryptoKitties dev's new game, and YouTube confronts issues

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17 one-on-one interviews with games industry leaders at PGC London 2019 EXPERT INSIGHTS May 2nd, 2019

17 one-on-one interviews with games industry leaders at PGC London 2019

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190 54 top games in soft launch: From Game of Thrones Slots Casino and Angry Birds Pop 2 to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Candy Crush Tales SOFT LAUNCH May 20th, 2019

54 top games in soft launch: From Game of Thrones Slots Casino and Angry Birds Pop 2 to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Candy Crush Tales

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as Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later 10 YEARS OF MINECRAFT May 17th, 2019

Minecraft was the only top 250 grossing premium mobile game in 2018, showing it’s still going strong 10 years later

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3 Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14 FUTURE EARNINGS Jan 30th, 2015

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20 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Apr 3rd, 2019

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Why Supercell ignored monetisation but Season Challenges made Clash of Clans the top grossing game anyway KEEP EM PLAYING Apr 30th, 2019

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3 as Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT Mar 8th, 2018

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

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Your checklist for commercial success starts with knowing your game profile USER ACQUISITION May 7th, 2019

Your checklist for commercial success starts with knowing your game profile

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Machine Zone's latest 4X strategy game World War Rising is a top 100 grosser RISING UP May 2nd, 2019

Machine Zone's latest 4X strategy game World War Rising is a top 100 grosser

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as Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show? GAME OF THRONES May 20th, 2019

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

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The talent game - part one: Attracting new talent RECRUITMENT ADVICE May 16th, 2019

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Five years on: Pixonic on keeping the War Robots community happy LIVE AND KICKING May 16th, 2019

Five years on: Pixonic on keeping the War Robots community happy

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"There are too many games that have been designed around the business model" INDIE SPOTLIGHT May 15th, 2019

"There are too many games that have been designed around the business model"

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BoomBit releases Idle Coffee Corp globally IDLE HIT May 14th, 2019

BoomBit releases Idle Coffee Corp globally

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Weighing up Zynga's $250m Gram acquisition one year on MERGED May 14th, 2019

Weighing up Zynga's $250m Gram acquisition one year on

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Jobs in Games: Gameloft’s Hugues Ossart on organising international events and esports JOBS IN GAMES May 14th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Gameloft’s Hugues Ossart on organising international events and esports

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Speaker Spotlight: DigiPen Institute of Technology lecturer Jo Cronk to discuss culture and diversity at PGC Seattle SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT May 13th, 2019

Speaker Spotlight: DigiPen Institute of Technology lecturer Jo Cronk to discuss culture and diversity at PGC Seattle

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Weighing up Zynga's $250m Gram acquisition one year on MERGED May 14th, 2019

Weighing up Zynga's $250m Gram acquisition one year on

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BoomBit releases Idle Coffee Corp globally IDLE HIT May 14th, 2019

BoomBit releases Idle Coffee Corp globally

  • Publishing
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"There are too many games that have been designed around the business model" INDIE SPOTLIGHT May 15th, 2019

"There are too many games that have been designed around the business model"

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as Yokozuna Data CEO Africa Perianez on a career in machine learning and a company where half of the engineers and all the data scientists are women WOMEN IN GAMES Mar 8th, 2019

Yokozuna Data CEO Africa Perianez on a career in machine learning and a company where half of the engineers and all the data scientists are women

  • Jobs
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  • Machine Learning
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1 Peak Games’ $100 million bet on Ryan Reynolds to kick Toon Blast up a gear in the US FUNNY FOR BUSINESS Jul 31st, 2018

Peak Games’ $100 million bet on Ryan Reynolds to kick Toon Blast up a gear in the US

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Jobs in Games: Gameloft’s Hugues Ossart on organising international events and esports JOBS IN GAMES May 14th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Gameloft’s Hugues Ossart on organising international events and esports

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Tilting Point revenue quintupled to $45 million in 2018 FULL TILT May 13th, 2019

Tilting Point revenue quintupled to $45 million in 2018

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Five years on: Pixonic on keeping the War Robots community happy LIVE AND KICKING May 16th, 2019

Five years on: Pixonic on keeping the War Robots community happy

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Game for Peace the second top grosser in China behind Honor of Kings WEEKLY CHARTS May 20th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Game for Peace the second top grosser in China behind Honor of Kings

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Minecraft builds to 176 million copies sold worldwide BUILD ME UP May 20th, 2019

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as Marvelous CEO Haruki Nakayama resigns due to poor health JOB NEWS May 20th, 2019

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as Publisher NetEase is bringing new original Marvel content to China and beyond SUPER May 20th, 2019

Publisher NetEase is bringing new original Marvel content to China and beyond

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as NetEase to launch first Pokemon mobile game in China POKEMON QUEST May 20th, 2019

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as Report: PlayStation team didn't know about Sony-Microsoft cloud technology deal COMMUNICATION ERROR May 20th, 2019

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World Health Organisation set to judge whether "gaming disorder" will become a recognised illness this week GAMING DISORDER May 20th, 2019

World Health Organisation set to judge whether "gaming disorder" will become a recognised illness this week

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1 as Tencent’s "peaceful" PUBG clone Game for Peace earned over $14 million in three days PEACE May 13th, 2019

Tencent’s "peaceful" PUBG clone Game for Peace earned over $14 million in three days

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser again, but it can't beat Coin Master in the UK WEEKLY CHARTS May 13th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser again, but it can't beat Coin Master in the UK

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as Brawl Stars takes $50 million in South Korea KOREA STARS May 14th, 2019

Brawl Stars takes $50 million in South Korea

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as Pokemon Rumble Rush revealed for iOS and Android WHAT A RUSH May 15th, 2019

Pokemon Rumble Rush revealed for iOS and Android

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BoomBit releases Idle Coffee Corp globally IDLE HIT May 14th, 2019

BoomBit releases Idle Coffee Corp globally

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as Rockstar acquires Indian developer Dhruva Interactive for $7.9m ACQUISITION NEWS May 13th, 2019

Rockstar acquires Indian developer Dhruva Interactive for $7.9m

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More than half of the world’s mobile gamers are based in Asia

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Tapjoy: Mobile games have gone mainstream in the US NEW RESEARCH May 17th, 2019

Tapjoy: Mobile games have gone mainstream in the US

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A guide to barebones monetisation in mobile games

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as Publisher NetEase is bringing new original Marvel content to China and beyond SUPER May 20th, 2019

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Game for Peace the second top grosser in China behind Honor of Kings WEEKLY CHARTS May 20th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Game for Peace the second top grosser in China behind Honor of Kings

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

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How do indie developers address accessibility in video games?

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Where do indies and innovative ideas fit in the current mobile games market?

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Should aspiring indie games developers strike out on their own straight away or get experience at a studio first?

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Will the new App Store Indies section have any real impact on indie mobile games?

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How useful was GDC 2017 to an indie mobile developer? INDIE MAVENS Mar 13th, 2017

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