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Trouble at HQ Trivia studio, Oculus staffing up for AR Glasses, and Clash of Clans a US top grosser thanks to Gold Pass Hot Five Apr 23rd, 2019

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Monetizer Mavens on what Apple Arcade needs to do to be successful

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1 as Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? The Charticle Apr 2nd, 2019

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

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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 After Hours Oct 22nd, 2016

The internet reacts to the Nintendo Switch reveal

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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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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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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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1 as Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? The Charticle Apr 2nd, 2019

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

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

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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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Trouble at HQ Trivia studio, Oculus staffing up for AR Glasses, and Clash of Clans a US top grosser thanks to Gold Pass Hot Five Apr 23rd, 2019

Trouble at HQ Trivia studio, Oculus staffing up for AR Glasses, and Clash of Clans a US top grosser thanks to Gold Pass

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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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Here is who is working on Google's Stadia games streaming platform COMPANY MAP Apr 24th, 2019

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Meet 31 of the top most exciting Washington state games companies COMPANY ROUNDUP Apr 12th, 2019

Meet 31 of the top most exciting Washington state games companies

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How Wargaming manages a game project across two studios half a world away ALL AROUND THE WORLD Apr 9th, 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

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

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PGC Seattle Speaker Spotlight: 12traits CEO Joe Schaeppi to discuss how psychometrics can power up retention and monetisation SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Apr 25th, 2019

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Frogmind on going from a team of two working on premium games to the new F2P Rumble Stars

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Jobs in Games: Voodoo’s Wesley Clarke on how to get a job as a technical lead

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Apple’s transformation into an entertainment streaming service: Is a virtual Blockbusters for mobile games really the future? APPLE ARCADE Apr 24th, 2019

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V&A curators weigh in on getting gaming on the museum floor INTERVIEW Apr 24th, 2019

V&A curators weigh in on getting gaming on the museum floor

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Four years on: Dodreams CEO Erik Pöntiskoski on why Drive Ahead is showing no signs of slowing down LIVE AND KICKING Apr 18th, 2019

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1 as Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? EASTERN STARS Apr 2nd, 2019

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

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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

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Apple’s transformation into an entertainment streaming service: Is a virtual Blockbusters for mobile games really the future? APPLE ARCADE Apr 24th, 2019

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Jobs in Games: Voodoo’s Wesley Clarke on how to get a job as a technical lead JOBS IN GAMES Apr 24th, 2019

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How hyper-casual games use network effects to supercharge growth NETWORK EFFECTS Apr 25th, 2019

How hyper-casual games use network effects to supercharge growth

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Frogmind on going from a team of two working on premium games to the new F2P Rumble Stars INDIE SPOTLIGHT Apr 25th, 2019

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How to succeed in Iran on Cafe Bazaar

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Angry Birds 2 and Dream Blast drive up Rovio games revenue to $74m in Q1

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Fortnite devs speak out about constant crunch OVERTIME Apr 25th, 2019

Fortnite devs speak out about constant crunch

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Facebook halts reviews of new Instant Games TEMPORARY FREEZE Apr 25th, 2019

Facebook halts reviews of new Instant Games

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Playrix soft-launches new match-three puzzler Wildscapes

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as Google’s Indie Games Accelerator is back, and now open to 37 countries INDIE Apr 18th, 2019

Google’s Indie Games Accelerator is back, and now open to 37 countries

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Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent’s Let’s Hunt Monsters storms China’s free downloads rankings

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Top Eleven developer Nordeus scores a new eight-storey office in Belgrade OFFICE Apr 18th, 2019

Top Eleven developer Nordeus scores a new eight-storey office in Belgrade

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1 as King of Avalon and Guns of Glory rake in over $1.3 billion in revenue for Funplus REVENUE Apr 24th, 2019

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

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

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7 best practices for using memes in your marketing campaign

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Top user acquisition strategies for indie games developers

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Qualcomm partners with Tencent and Vivo to create new AI game experiences on mobile

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as Newzoo: Tencent responsible for 15% of 2018's global games revenue MONEY MONEY MONEY Apr 18th, 2019

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Netmarble’s Blade and Soul Revolution tops iOS grossing charts in South Korea one day after launch

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