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Nintendo's Doug Bowser talks crunch, E3 2019 mobile roundup, and Call of Duty: Mobile soft-launched Hot Five Jun 17th, 2019

Nintendo's Doug Bowser talks crunch, E3 2019 mobile roundup, and Call of Duty: Mobile soft-launched

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

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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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How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? The IAP Inspector Mar 25th, 2019

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

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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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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

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

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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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4 as How does Rules of Survival monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 23rd, 2018

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Nintendo's Doug Bowser talks crunch, E3 2019 mobile roundup, and Call of Duty: Mobile soft-launched Hot Five Jun 17th, 2019

Nintendo's Doug Bowser talks crunch, E3 2019 mobile roundup, and Call of Duty: Mobile soft-launched

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Devs sue Apple over App Store fees, Stillfront acquires Kixeye, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100k installs Hot Five Jun 10th, 2019

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

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Does Apple and Google's 70/30 revenue share model work for indies? Mobile Mavens May 31st, 2019

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

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195 49 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Candy Crush Tales SOFT LAUNCH Jun 17th, 2019

49 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Candy Crush Tales

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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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as Region Focus: How China’s big game freeze has made local developers more internationally minded REGION FOCUS Jun 13th, 2019

Region Focus: How China’s big game freeze has made local developers more internationally minded

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as E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct NINTENDO E3 ROUNDUP Jun 11th, 2019

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Games industry roundup: Behind Total war: Three Kingdoms' success, blockchain game Project Genesis heads to Steam, and YouTube defends targeted harassment

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Top 10 things to do in Hong Kong while at Pocket Gamer Connects

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as 4 videos analysing China's lucrative hyper-casual games market and how to get user attention HYPER-CASUAL Jun 6th, 2019

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as Region Focus: Finding opportunities in Hong Kong's small games industry REGION FOCUS Jun 5th, 2019

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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195 49 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Candy Crush Tales SOFT LAUNCH Jun 17th, 2019

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as E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct NINTENDO E3 ROUNDUP Jun 11th, 2019

E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct

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as Region Focus: How China’s big game freeze has made local developers more internationally minded REGION FOCUS Jun 13th, 2019

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Games industry roundup: Behind Total war: Three Kingdoms' success, blockchain game Project Genesis heads to Steam, and YouTube defends targeted harassment ROUNDUP Jun 10th, 2019

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4 as How does Rules of Survival monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Feb 23rd, 2018

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

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Jobs in Games: Outplay Entertainment’s Riccardo Tramma on how to get a job as an engineer JOBS IN GAMES Jun 18th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Outplay Entertainment’s Riccardo Tramma on how to get a job as an engineer

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E3 2019: Mobile gets a fair shake as the lines between platforms blur E3 2019 Jun 14th, 2019

E3 2019: Mobile gets a fair shake as the lines between platforms blur

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as E3 2019: After mobile's no-show for Nintendo, is it really all-in on the platform? HALF MEASURES Jun 14th, 2019

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Nine years on: Social casino specialist KamaGames on the evolution of Pokerist LIVE AND KICKING Jun 13th, 2019

Nine years on: Social casino specialist KamaGames on the evolution of Pokerist

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The universal guide to retention RETENTION GUIDE Jun 12th, 2019

The universal guide to retention

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Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy on making fun over profit INDIE SPOTLIGHT Jun 12th, 2019

Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy on making fun over profit

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Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology JOBS IN GAMES Jun 10th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology

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as PGC Hong Kong: Boomzap creative director Chris Natsuume on hyper-casual concerns and player burnout SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Jun 7th, 2019

PGC Hong Kong: Boomzap creative director Chris Natsuume on hyper-casual concerns and player burnout

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E3 2019: Mobile gets a fair shake as the lines between platforms blur E3 2019 Jun 14th, 2019

E3 2019: Mobile gets a fair shake as the lines between platforms blur

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The universal guide to retention RETENTION GUIDE Jun 12th, 2019

The universal guide to retention

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as E3 2019: After mobile's no-show for Nintendo, is it really all-in on the platform? HALF MEASURES Jun 14th, 2019

E3 2019: After mobile's no-show for Nintendo, is it really all-in on the platform?

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Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy on making fun over profit INDIE SPOTLIGHT Jun 12th, 2019

Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy on making fun over profit

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Nine years on: Social casino specialist KamaGames on the evolution of Pokerist LIVE AND KICKING Jun 13th, 2019

Nine years on: Social casino specialist KamaGames on the evolution of Pokerist

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Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology JOBS IN GAMES Jun 10th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology

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3 The secret of Scopely’s success? How we think about IP, says CEO GOING BOLDLY Jun 3rd, 2019

The secret of Scopely’s success? How we think about IP, says CEO

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Dragon Ball Legends enters top 10 grossing rankings in the US and UK WEEKLY CHARTS Jun 17th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Dragon Ball Legends enters top 10 grossing rankings in the US and UK

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Games industry roundup: The big trends at E3 2019, Dr Disrespect banned from Twitch, and blockchain's increased E3 presence

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E3 2019: Nintendo's Doug Bowser speaks out on crunch culture and game delays

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Update: Stillfront Group to raise $53 million from directed share issue; seeks up to $106m from bond loan FUND RAISE Jun 14th, 2019

Update: Stillfront Group to raise $53 million from directed share issue; seeks up to $106m from bond loan

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as PUBG Mobile racks up 50 million daily active users outside of China STATS ROYALE Jun 14th, 2019

PUBG Mobile racks up 50 million daily active users outside of China

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Epic Games acquires social network Houseparty EPIC X HOUSEPARTY Jun 13th, 2019

Epic Games acquires social network Houseparty

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AppOnboard acquires Buildbox game engine to power codeless development NO CODE MOVEMENT Jun 13th, 2019

AppOnboard acquires Buildbox game engine to power codeless development

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as The bumper Very Big Indie Pitch heads to Hong Kong BIG INDIE PITCH Jun 14th, 2019

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Next Games partners with Netflix to launch Stranger Things mobile title in 2020 DEMOGORGON ATTACK Jun 13th, 2019

Next Games partners with Netflix to launch Stranger Things mobile title in 2020

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2 User acquisition for beginners: A checklist GUIDE TO UA May 21st, 2019

User acquisition for beginners: A checklist

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1 A guide to barebones monetisation in mobile games MONETISATION DESIGN Nov 14th, 2018

A guide to barebones monetisation in mobile games

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7 best practices for using memes in your marketing campaign MARKETING MEMES Aug 30th, 2018

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AppOnboard acquires Buildbox game engine to power codeless development NO CODE MOVEMENT Jun 13th, 2019

AppOnboard acquires Buildbox game engine to power codeless development

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Next Games partners with Netflix to launch Stranger Things mobile title in 2020 DEMOGORGON ATTACK Jun 13th, 2019

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as Nintendo and Microsoft collaborate to bring Banjo-Kazooie home in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate BIRD AND BEAR Jun 11th, 2019

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Dragon Ball Legends enters top 10 grossing rankings in the US and UK WEEKLY CHARTS Jun 17th, 2019

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Brawl Stars strikes 100 million downloads worldwide in six months

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as One-third of all mobile downloads in 2018 were games according to App Annie 74 PER CENT OF SPENDING Jun 13th, 2019

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: NetEase resurgent with four top 10 grossers on the Chinese App Store WEEKLY CHARTS Jun 10th, 2019

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Mobile the most popular games platform among millennials SPECTATING TRENDS Jun 7th, 2019

Mobile the most popular games platform among millennials

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as Tencent's Game for Peace helped PUBG Mobile more than double sales to $146m in May KILLER COMBO Jun 7th, 2019

Tencent's Game for Peace helped PUBG Mobile more than double sales to $146m in May

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as PES 2019 mobile game racks up 200 million downloads PES 2019 Jun 7th, 2019

PES 2019 mobile game racks up 200 million downloads

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Ilkka Paananen

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as Pre-registrations open for Supercell’s Brawl Stars in China MR. WORLDWIDE Mar 28th, 2019

Pre-registrations open for Supercell’s Brawl Stars in China

No official release date given

  • China
  • Pre-registration
  • Brawl Stars
After generating $1 billion-plus from each of its first four games, Supercell’s falling revenue is kind of the point KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON Feb 12th, 2019

After generating $1 billion-plus from each of its first four games, Supercell’s falling revenue is kind of the point

2019 could see the company experience explosive growth again

  • Financials
  • Revenue
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as Supercell staffing up China game development studio NEW CLAN Feb 12th, 2019

Supercell staffing up China game development studio

CEO Ilkka Paananen discusses his evolving vision for the company

  • China
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Supercell revenue drops again to $1.6 billion for 2018 FINANCIALS Feb 12th, 2019

Supercell revenue drops again to $1.6 billion for 2018

But Brawl Stars performance signals better times ahead

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  • Finland
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Brawl Stars: “We at Supercell have never prepared more for a game launch” STAR LAUNCH Dec 11th, 2018

Brawl Stars: “We at Supercell have never prepared more for a game launch”

Brawl Stars releases globally on December 12th

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1 Supercell’s Ilkka Paananen explains why its cell structure puts developers before management SUPER CELLS Sep 12th, 2018

Supercell’s Ilkka Paananen explains why its cell structure puts developers before management

“The less the management had to do with their games, the better their chances of success”

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The madness and method of Supercell’s M&A philosophy BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Jun 14th, 2018

The madness and method of Supercell’s M&A philosophy

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Supercell invests $5 million in US mobile developer Redemption Games CASH ROYALE Jun 7th, 2018

Supercell invests $5 million in US mobile developer Redemption Games

Deal marks first M&A activity outside of Europe

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The irony of Supercell’s 2017 financials PRICE VERSUS VALUE Feb 19th, 2018

The irony of Supercell’s 2017 financials

What goes up?

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The huge stats behind Supercell’s explosive success BIG NUMBERS Nov 2nd, 2017

The huge stats behind Supercell’s explosive success

Ilkka Paananen shares some impressive figures

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15-year old becomes Supercell CEO for a day as part of #GirlsTakeover campaign EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Oct 11th, 2017

15-year old becomes Supercell CEO for a day as part of #GirlsTakeover campaign

Ilkka Paananen steps aside as part of scheme to promote equal opportunities across the world

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Supercell crowned the world’s top mobile games company in PocketGamer.biz Top 50 Developer list TOP 50 OUT NOW Sep 29th, 2017

Supercell crowned the world’s top mobile games company in PocketGamer.biz Top 50 Developer list

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Supercell grants over $280,000 to Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture EDUCATION FUNDS Jul 5th, 2017

Supercell grants over $280,000 to Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Studio wants to turn Finland into a "Hollywood for gaming"

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Supercell soft-launches Brawl Stars in Canada App Store FIRST BRAWL Jun 15th, 2017

Supercell soft-launches Brawl Stars in Canada App Store

Global release depends on soft launch success

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Why Supercell built a company of startups, and how it works SUPER STARTUPS Apr 20th, 2017

Why Supercell built a company of startups, and how it works

Ilkka Paananen shares his philosophy for mobile games development, and why it might not work for everyone

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