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Hot Five: Unity whips up a storm, Zynga vets raise $8M for NFT dinosaurs, and Niantic launches a new game Hot Five Sep 18th, 2023

Hot Five: Unity whips up a storm, Zynga vets raise $8M for NFT dinosaurs, and Niantic launches a new game

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Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days Week that was Sep 15th, 2023

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

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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

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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?

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PG.biz podcast - Finding and growing your niche

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PG.biz Podcast - gaming for good

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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

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

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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?

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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?

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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 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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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

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Hot Five: Unity whips up a storm, Zynga vets raise $8M for NFT dinosaurs, and Niantic launches a new game Hot Five Sep 18th, 2023

Hot Five: Unity whips up a storm, Zynga vets raise $8M for NFT dinosaurs, and Niantic launches a new game

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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Unity's Runtime Fee Farrago: The whole story in one place UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 21st, 2023

Unity's Runtime Fee Farrago: The whole story in one place

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Over 1,200 games professionals gather in Helsinki for the 40th Pocket Gamer Connects conference

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as The complete list of Netflix Games A GLIMPSE OF GROWTH Sep 13th, 2023

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

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Unity's biggest games: The big names who'll pay the biggest bucks

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"Your mobile game studio is dying. Here’s how to save it" COMMENT & OPINION Sep 21st, 2023

"Your mobile game studio is dying. Here’s how to save it"

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Dungeon Hunter 6: Rebooting a classic franchise for a new generation

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Kinoa's Hen Gelberg on “The true power of LiveOps”

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Unity's pricing bombshell: The unanswered questions UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 15th, 2023

Unity's pricing bombshell: The unanswered questions

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Liftoff's Sven Elstermann on monetising in today's competitive app landscape MAXIMISE REVENUE IMPROVE USER EXPERIENCE Sep 15th, 2023

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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

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John Riccitiello: devs who shun monetisation are "pure, brilliant" and "fucking idiots" UNITY X IRONSOURCE Jul 13th, 2022

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How Monopoly GO! became the #1 mobile board game in the world Q&A Jun 22nd, 2023

How Monopoly GO! became the #1 mobile board game in the world

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Liftoff's Sven Elstermann on monetising in today's competitive app landscape MAXIMISE REVENUE IMPROVE USER EXPERIENCE Sep 15th, 2023

Liftoff's Sven Elstermann on monetising in today's competitive app landscape

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Kinoa's Hen Gelberg on “The true power of LiveOps” PGC HELSINKI 2023 Sep 15th, 2023

Kinoa's Hen Gelberg on “The true power of LiveOps”

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Unity's pricing bombshell: The unanswered questions UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 15th, 2023

Unity's pricing bombshell: The unanswered questions

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Dungeon Hunter 6: Rebooting a classic franchise for a new generation COLLABORATIONS Sep 19th, 2023

Dungeon Hunter 6: Rebooting a classic franchise for a new generation

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Developers issue collective ultimatum to Unity. "No more ironSource or Unity Ads until RunTime conditions are reviewed."

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European Games Developer Federation takes a swipe at Unity

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“We fucked up on many levels..." Unity co-founder David Helgason wades into the Runtime Fee debacle

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

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Boogiz blends dance, gaming and education to win The Very Big Indie Pitch in Helsinki News Sep 14th, 2023

Boogiz blends dance, gaming and education to win The Very Big Indie Pitch in Helsinki

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Hero of Aethric conquers the competition and wins The Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto News Jul 22nd, 2023

Hero of Aethric conquers the competition and wins The Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto

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as Smash Head Studio's roguelite action platformer wins the first ever Dubai Big Indie Pitch News Jun 26th, 2023

Smash Head Studio's roguelite action platformer wins the first ever Dubai Big Indie Pitch

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"Just make something and put it out there": Kaleidoscope Games discuss getting started in game development Interview May 15th, 2023

"Just make something and put it out there": Kaleidoscope Games discuss getting started in game development

Kaleidoscope Games took second place at our flagship Very Big Indie Pitch in London - we discuss their road to the Big Indie Pitch

"Ask for help and advice from industry peers, all the time": Adriaan de Jongh discusses surviving as an indie Interview Mar 9th, 2023

"Ask for help and advice from industry peers, all the time": Adriaan de Jongh discusses surviving as an indie

Adriaan de Jongh won the big indie pitch for the third time at PGC London 2023 - we discuss what it takes to survive and thrive as an indie developer

"Keep your eyes on the goal and never lose sight of it": indie Samson Gabriels talks making maths fun Interview Feb 6th, 2023

"Keep your eyes on the goal and never lose sight of it": indie Samson Gabriels talks making maths fun

SumPop Online took second place at a Digital Big Indie Pitch last year - we discuss the team's inspirations, and their advice for other indies

Adriaan de Jongh becomes a three time Big Indie Pitch winner with Secret Shuffle News Jan 30th, 2023

Adriaan de Jongh becomes a three time Big Indie Pitch winner with Secret Shuffle

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as Koala 4D's Locust swarms the competition and wins The Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Jordan News Nov 14th, 2022

Koala 4D's Locust swarms the competition and wins The Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Jordan

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"We are super-fast and iterate quickly": Lessmore talks pitching, development and Eatventure Interview Oct 26th, 2022

"We are super-fast and iterate quickly": Lessmore talks pitching, development and Eatventure

PocketGamer.biz talks to Sophie Brügmann about The Big Indie Pitch and Eatventure

Latchback Games draws a winning hand as Break the Beyond wins The Very Big Indie Pitch News Oct 2nd, 2022

Latchback Games draws a winning hand as Break the Beyond wins The Very Big Indie Pitch

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Indie development and innovation: meet the team behind DT Space Races Interview Sep 5th, 2022

Indie development and innovation: meet the team behind DT Space Races

We talk to Kevin Prigent about his recent third-place Big Indie Pitch experience

as We sit down with Minidragon to discuss its record-breaking Big Indie Pitch success Interview Aug 15th, 2022

We sit down with Minidragon to discuss its record-breaking Big Indie Pitch success

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as Dunali Games sit down with us to discuss innovation and survival in indie game development Interview Aug 12th, 2022

Dunali Games sit down with us to discuss innovation and survival in indie game development

We talk to Dunali Games' Dipender Kaushik about The Big Indie Pitch

Interview: Noah Rosenfield discusses solo development and the Big Indie Pitch winning game Addagrams Interview Aug 3rd, 2022

Interview: Noah Rosenfield discusses solo development and the Big Indie Pitch winning game Addagrams

"Experiences. Go have some. Experiences are out there *points nebulously*, not in here *points to phone screen*"

as Real-time chess puzzler Tale of Honour manoeuvres to the Big Indie Pitch crown News Jul 28th, 2022

Real-time chess puzzler Tale of Honour manoeuvres to the Big Indie Pitch crown

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