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PG.biz Podcast - From breakout to billions

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What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions?

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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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How Rocket League Sideswipe hit the back of the net

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2017 - the year not much happened in mobile games, says Verto

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

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

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Stadia may be gone, but will the entire cloud gaming sector go with it?

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

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CDPR on mobile, where have they been and where are they going?

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The latest and most interesting mobile games on the blockchain. [UPDATED AUGUST 3] BLOCKCHAIN MOBILE GAMES Dec 7th, 2022

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Fortnite Chapter 4: Rebooting a smash hit to keep players playing UPDATES Dec 6th, 2022

Fortnite Chapter 4: Rebooting a smash hit to keep players playing

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The mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE] SOFT LAUNCH Dec 5th, 2022

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In-Depth: All the winners from the Google Play Awards 2022 AWARDS Dec 5th, 2022

In-Depth: All the winners from the Google Play Awards 2022

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Marika Appel has been at Supercell for over ten years, and is still as passionate as ever WOMEN IN GAMES Dec 7th, 2022

Marika Appel has been at Supercell for over ten years, and is still as passionate as ever

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Live Tech CEO Samuel Worsley on ITV's KnockOut Live World Cup and the future of the second screen INTERVIEW Dec 2nd, 2022

Live Tech CEO Samuel Worsley on ITV's KnockOut Live World Cup and the future of the second screen

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Sophie Brugmann: having diverse leadership teams can lead to incredible symbiosis at the top

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Magic Eden appoints Chris Akhavan as Chief Gaming Officer

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GameRefinery’s November 2022 report delves into the state of the mobile market

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Epic debuts family-friendly cabined accounts for its games

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Nintendo’s most successful mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes celebrates Version 7.0.0 update

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China blamed for Goddess of Victory: Nikke censorship, despite being unavailable in China

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Cheat codes to master the hybridcasual genre

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Hybridcasual: a winning formula?

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Three in-game monetisation myths that need to be left in 2021 MONETISATION MYTHS BUSTED Apr 14th, 2022

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Financing LTV in mobile gaming FUND GROWTH TO SCALE Mar 31st, 2022

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The Mirror platform aims to someday be "akin to a next-gen Roblox" A PLATFORM TO EMPOWER Dec 8th, 2022

The Mirror platform aims to someday be "akin to a next-gen Roblox"

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Flick partners with PlanetPlay as part of environmental commitment

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Keywords Studios to acquire Californian company Helpshift for $75 million NEW ACQUISITION Dec 7th, 2022

Keywords Studios to acquire Californian company Helpshift for $75 million

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Roboto Games raises $15 million in Series A funding round

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X-Flow invests $6 million in casual developer Plummy Games after Star Merge launch

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Zynga subsidiary Rollic acquires hypercasual games studio Popcore ACQUISITIONS Nov 17th, 2022

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Anything World raises $7.5 million to make 3D content creation more accessible than ever before ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE Nov 10th, 2022

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CALM research finds gaming has a positive impact on mental health PEOPLE POSITIVITY Dec 8th, 2022

CALM research finds gaming has a positive impact on mental health

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as $1.5 billion revenue and 1.1 billion downloads weekly - how healthy is the mobile games market? BILLIONS AND BEYOND Dec 7th, 2022

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Asia Pacific to generate 48 percent of 2022's global gaming revenue NEWZOO REPORT Nov 21st, 2022

Asia Pacific to generate 48 percent of 2022's global gaming revenue

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PocketGamer.biz's 22 most anticipated mobile games of 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED 2022 Dec 30th, 2021

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Former Kabam COO Kent Wakeford joins eSports platform Skillz's board of directors PAYING THE BILLZ Jul 21st, 2017

Former Kabam COO Kent Wakeford joins eSports platform Skillz's board of directors

Also co-owns an Overwatch eSports team now, apparently

  • Jobs
  • Esports
Netmarble closes acquisition of Kabam Vancouver and Marvel: Contest of Champions NETMARBLE ACQUIRES KABAM Feb 24th, 2017

Netmarble closes acquisition of Kabam Vancouver and Marvel: Contest of Champions

Will run Kabam as a wholly-owned subsidiary

  • Acquisition
  • Marvel
  • Contest of Champions
Kabam winds down Beijing studio following poor internal performance of soft-launched Legacy of Zeus FUTURE OF KABAM Feb 9th, 2017

Kabam winds down Beijing studio following poor internal performance of soft-launched Legacy of Zeus

COO Kent Wakeford also discusses future asset sales

  • Beijing
  • Canned
  • Shuttered
Kabam teams up with Hasbro for new Transformers mobile game MADE IN VANCOUVER Aug 1st, 2016

Kabam teams up with Hasbro for new Transformers mobile game

Transformers: Contest of Champions

  • Licensing
  • Brands
  • Transformers
  • Vancouver
Kabam bets big on the success of future Avatar films with MMOG tie-in announced PANDORA'S MMO Jun 29th, 2016

Kabam bets big on the success of future Avatar films with MMOG tie-in announced

In development in LA

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as Why Marvel: Contest of Champions ditched Android and went auto-play/pay-to-win in China FASTER, HARDER Jun 15th, 2016

Why Marvel: Contest of Champions ditched Android and went auto-play/pay-to-win in China

Kent Wakeford on Chinese changes

  • China
  • Localisation
  • Culturalisation
  • Pay-to-Win
  • Auto-Play
  • Marvel
  • Contest of Champions
Kabam continues to narrow focus, offloading old mobile titles to Gaea Mobile KABAM FOCUS Jan 8th, 2016

Kabam continues to narrow focus, offloading old mobile titles to Gaea Mobile

Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North and more

  • China
  • San Francisco
  • Focus
Chart stasis, the rise of Asia and extreme UA discussed at Apps World SF 2015 BIG SHIFTS May 22nd, 2015

Chart stasis, the rise of Asia and extreme UA discussed at Apps World SF 2015

Kabam, SGN and Microsoft talk trends

  • China
  • Apps World
  • Stasis
  • Next Wave UA
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