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One dev's journey from police constable to level designer, PlayStation vet heads to Disney, and the Yogscast CEO steps down Hot Five Jul 22nd, 2019

One dev's journey from police constable to level designer, PlayStation vet heads to Disney, and the Yogscast CEO steps down

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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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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

How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise?

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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

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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

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

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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 News Sep 15th, 2014

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

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

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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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One dev's journey from police constable to level designer, PlayStation vet heads to Disney, and the Yogscast CEO steps down Hot Five Jul 22nd, 2019

One dev's journey from police constable to level designer, PlayStation vet heads to Disney, and the Yogscast CEO steps down

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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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2 Retail virtual reality: What does it need, and where the hell is it? Mobile Mavens Oct 22nd, 2014

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

How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise?

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Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm News Sep 15th, 2014

Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm

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

How does Rules of Survival monetise?

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197 49 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Tales SOFT LAUNCH Jul 22nd, 2019

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Mobile game dev sessions to attend at Develop: Brighton 2019 DEVELOP: BRIGHTON Jul 4th, 2019

Mobile game dev sessions to attend at Develop: Brighton 2019

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7 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019's Monetizer track MONETIZER Jul 4th, 2019

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as 8 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019's East Meets West track EAST MEETS WEST Jul 4th, 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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Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries

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Chart rush: The making of Clash of Clans

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1 A Brief History of Mobile Games: In the beginning, there was Snake PRE-2000 Mar 14th, 2016

A Brief History of Mobile Games: In the beginning, there was Snake

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

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Jobs in Games: Big Pixel Studios' Lorchan Trapp on how to be an environment artist JOBS IN GAMES Jul 23rd, 2019

Jobs in Games: Big Pixel Studios' Lorchan Trapp on how to be an environment artist

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Industry leaders and games creators reunite in Cologne with MeetToMatch GET NETWORKING Jul 22nd, 2019

Industry leaders and games creators reunite in Cologne with MeetToMatch

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IGDA Helsinki Hub gathers games developers this September EDUCATION TRAINING AND SUCCESS Jul 19th, 2019

IGDA Helsinki Hub gathers games developers this September

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Elite Game Developers: Building Dazzle Rocks ELITE GAME DEVELOPERS Jul 19th, 2019

Elite Game Developers: Building Dazzle Rocks

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Four years on: Bethesda on the mutation of surprise hit Fallout Shelter LIVE AND KICKING Jul 18th, 2019

Four years on: Bethesda on the mutation of surprise hit Fallout Shelter

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New York’s biggest two-day game convention Play NYC returns for third annual event NEW YORK NEW YORK Jul 17th, 2019

New York’s biggest two-day game convention Play NYC returns for third annual event

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Jobs in Games: Level designer Jay Foreman on going from Kent Police force to making games at King JOBS IN GAMES Jul 16th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Level designer Jay Foreman on going from Kent Police force to making games at King

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as PGC Hong Kong: WAX strategic advisor Malcolm Caselle to host talk on the purpose of digital goods and NFTs NFTS Jul 15th, 2019

PGC Hong Kong: WAX strategic advisor Malcolm Caselle to host talk on the purpose of digital goods and NFTs

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Elite Game Developers: Building Dazzle Rocks ELITE GAME DEVELOPERS Jul 19th, 2019

Elite Game Developers: Building Dazzle Rocks

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New York’s biggest two-day game convention Play NYC returns for third annual event NEW YORK NEW YORK Jul 17th, 2019

New York’s biggest two-day game convention Play NYC returns for third annual event

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IGDA Helsinki Hub gathers games developers this September EDUCATION TRAINING AND SUCCESS Jul 19th, 2019

IGDA Helsinki Hub gathers games developers this September

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Four years on: Bethesda on the mutation of surprise hit Fallout Shelter LIVE AND KICKING Jul 18th, 2019

Four years on: Bethesda on the mutation of surprise hit Fallout Shelter

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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? MICRO-TRANSACT THAT Aug 28th, 2015

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

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Jobs in Games: Level designer Jay Foreman on going from Kent Police force to making games at King JOBS IN GAMES Jul 16th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Level designer Jay Foreman on going from Kent Police force to making games at King

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Jobs in Games: Big Pixel Studios' Lorchan Trapp on how to be an environment artist JOBS IN GAMES Jul 23rd, 2019

Jobs in Games: Big Pixel Studios' Lorchan Trapp on how to be an environment artist

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Industry leaders and games creators reunite in Cologne with MeetToMatch GET NETWORKING Jul 22nd, 2019

Industry leaders and games creators reunite in Cologne with MeetToMatch

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Doppio Games raises $1.1 million for voice-controlled games ALEXA, RAISE MONEY Jul 23rd, 2019

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Tencent invests in retro games streaming platform Antstream Arcade

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as The Pokemon Company partners with Tencent on new games I CHOOSE YOU Jul 23rd, 2019

The Pokemon Company partners with Tencent on new games

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Yogscast CEO Mark Turpin steps down amidst sexual harassment allegations STEPPING DOWN Jul 17th, 2019

Yogscast CEO Mark Turpin steps down amidst sexual harassment allegations

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Zynga India moves to new studio in Bangalore

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Kongregate acquires mobile and web RPG Bit Heroes

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Seeking a job in the games industry - part two: The interview process

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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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Financing your indie games development studio - part four: Due diligence THE FINAL STEP May 1st, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part four: Due diligence

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Financing your indie games development studio - part two: The killer pitch PITCH PERFECT Apr 10th, 2019

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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Financing your indie games development studio - Part one STUDIO FINANCE Mar 29th, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - Part one

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Doppio Games raises $1.1 million for voice-controlled games ALEXA, RAISE MONEY Jul 23rd, 2019

Doppio Games raises $1.1 million for voice-controlled games

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as Tencent invests in retro games streaming platform Antstream Arcade SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE Jul 23rd, 2019

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle strikes up US top grossing spot CHARTS Jul 22nd, 2019

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2 18.6 million people in Germany play games on their smartphones MOBILE GAMING Jul 16th, 2019

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Honor of Kings is only the third top grosser in China as it faces a new challenger CHARTS Jul 15th, 2019

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as Dr. Mario World prescribes two million downloads in 72 hours MEDICAL BILLS Jul 15th, 2019

Dr. Mario World prescribes two million downloads in 72 hours

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Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019

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Disney shuts down Star Wars: Rivals, Honor of Kings takes $3.5bn in revenue and Tencent unveil Lego Cube HOT FIVE Sep 24th, 2018

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