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Women "underserved" in mobile games market, $1m potato artist joins Animoca Brands, and Empires & Puzzles hits 34m installs Hot Five Jun 24th, 2019

Women "underserved" in mobile games market, $1m potato artist joins Animoca Brands, and Empires & Puzzles hits 34m installs

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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 After Hours Oct 22nd, 2016

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

How does Rules of Survival monetise?

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1 as Stateside: Nintendo doesn't need to go mobile, mobile needs to go Nintendo Stateside Sep 4th, 2013

Stateside: Nintendo doesn't need to go mobile, mobile needs to go Nintendo

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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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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  • IAP Inspector
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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Women "underserved" in mobile games market, $1m potato artist joins Animoca Brands, and Empires & Puzzles hits 34m installs Hot Five Jun 24th, 2019

Women "underserved" in mobile games market, $1m potato artist joins Animoca Brands, and Empires & Puzzles hits 34m installs

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197 48 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 Jun 24th, 2019

48 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Call of Duty: Mobile 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

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

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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

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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as Top 10 things to do in Hong Kong while at Pocket Gamer Connects EVENT Jun 6th, 2019

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

4 videos analysing China's lucrative hyper-casual games market and how to get user attention

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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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197 48 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 Jun 24th, 2019

48 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Tales

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3 Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14 FUTURE EARNINGS Jan 30th, 2015

Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14

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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

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

20 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion

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

How does Rules of Survival monetise?

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  • PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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3 as Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT Mar 8th, 2018

Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries

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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 PGC Hong Kong Speaker Spotlight: Game Consultant Nick Murray on the importance of game balance SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Jun 24th, 2019

PGC Hong Kong Speaker Spotlight: Game Consultant Nick Murray on the importance of game balance

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The 2019 mobile game marketing strategies that work MARKETING STRATEGIES Jun 24th, 2019

The 2019 mobile game marketing strategies that work

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How to monetise your IAP-based game with ads AD MONETISATION Jun 24th, 2019

How to monetise your IAP-based game with ads

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Games for Change: How students are leading the charge for positive social change GAMES FOR CHANGE Jun 21st, 2019

Games for Change: How students are leading the charge for positive social change

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What’s Good Games’ Andrea Rene on the state of mobile, Apple Arcade and 12 years in the games industry 'BUSIEST LADY IN THE BIZ' Jun 21st, 2019

What’s Good Games’ Andrea Rene on the state of mobile, Apple Arcade and 12 years in the games industry

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as Four years on: How Travelling Millionaire’s regular events have garnered an engaged audience in the Middle East LIVE AND KICKING Jun 20th, 2019

Four years on: How Travelling Millionaire’s regular events have garnered an engaged audience in the Middle East

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How this award-winning studio uses Smartlook to make its games better SMART DESIGN Jun 20th, 2019

How this award-winning studio uses Smartlook to make its games better

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1 “Women are most definitely underserved in the mobile games market” STYLE SPACES Jun 19th, 2019

“Women are most definitely underserved in the mobile games market”

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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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1 “Women are most definitely underserved in the mobile games market” STYLE SPACES Jun 19th, 2019

“Women are most definitely underserved in the mobile games market”

  • Women in Games
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How Tag Games balances work-for-hire development and live ops TAGGED IN Jun 18th, 2019

How Tag Games balances work-for-hire development and live ops

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What’s Good Games’ Andrea Rene on the state of mobile, Apple Arcade and 12 years in the games industry 'BUSIEST LADY IN THE BIZ' Jun 21st, 2019

What’s Good Games’ Andrea Rene on the state of mobile, Apple Arcade and 12 years in the games industry

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Games for Change: How students are leading the charge for positive social change GAMES FOR CHANGE Jun 21st, 2019

Games for Change: How students are leading the charge for positive social change

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How this award-winning studio uses Smartlook to make its games better SMART DESIGN Jun 20th, 2019

How this award-winning studio uses Smartlook to make its games better

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as Four years on: How Travelling Millionaire’s regular events have garnered an engaged audience in the Middle East LIVE AND KICKING Jun 20th, 2019

Four years on: How Travelling Millionaire’s regular events have garnered an engaged audience in the Middle East

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Indie Spotlight: Noodlecake Studios COO on transitioning to games-as-a-service for Golf Blitz INDIE SPOTLIGHT Jun 19th, 2019

Indie Spotlight: Noodlecake Studios COO on transitioning to games-as-a-service for Golf Blitz

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Streaming services not likely to take over the games industry as a whole, says WBIE president

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as East Meets West: Tencent gaming phone, Apple's warning over US-China trade war, and Game for Peace could reach $1bn EAST MEETS WEST Jun 24th, 2019

East Meets West: Tencent gaming phone, Apple's warning over US-China trade war, and Game for Peace could reach $1bn

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LEGO Tower-inspired model sets new Guinness World record for largest brick diorama WORLD RECORD Jun 24th, 2019

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Candy Crush Saga shoots down PUBG Mobile’s chances of topping gross ranking in the US WEEKLY CHARTS Jun 24th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Candy Crush Saga shoots down PUBG Mobile’s chances of topping gross ranking in the US

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite makes $300,000 in first 24 hours from US and UK GALLEONS Jun 24th, 2019

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite makes $300,000 in first 24 hours from US and UK

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1 as Artist who sold photo of potato for $1m joins Animoca Brands as creative director CHEAP AS CHIPS Jun 21st, 2019

Artist who sold photo of potato for $1m joins Animoca Brands as creative director

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LEGO Tower-inspired model sets new Guinness World record for largest brick diorama WORLD RECORD Jun 24th, 2019

LEGO Tower-inspired model sets new Guinness World record for largest brick diorama

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Empires & Puzzles racks up 34 million downloads FOREVER FRANCHISE Jun 18th, 2019

Empires & Puzzles racks up 34 million downloads

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Roblox Summer Creator Challenge teams up with Godzilla to teach kids to code KING OF EDUCATION Jun 21st, 2019

Roblox Summer Creator Challenge teams up with Godzilla to teach kids to code

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as Report: Tencent and Asus to unveil new gaming phone in July MOVE OVER RAZER Jun 20th, 2019

Report: Tencent and Asus to unveil new gaming phone in July

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Ustwo names new CEO as it heads into multi-game development

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Twitch acquires Bebo to expand esports platform

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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 three: Structuring an investment deal ART OF THE DEAL Apr 26th, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part three: Structuring an investment deal

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

Financing your indie games development studio - part two: The killer pitch

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell FINDING FUNDING Mar 29th, 2019

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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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

7 best practices for using memes in your marketing campaign

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Dutch firm Azerion acquires Spil Games’ mobile division M&A Jun 20th, 2019

Dutch firm Azerion acquires Spil Games’ mobile division

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as Report: Tencent and Asus to unveil new gaming phone in July MOVE OVER RAZER Jun 20th, 2019

Report: Tencent and Asus to unveil new gaming phone in July

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Twitch acquires Bebo to expand esports platform BEBO X TWITCH Jun 19th, 2019

Twitch acquires Bebo to expand esports platform

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Niantic acquires tabletop games creator Sensible Object ACQUISITION Jun 18th, 2019

Niantic acquires tabletop games creator Sensible Object

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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

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

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Adjust raises $227 million in funding to grow mobile measurement and fraud prevention FUNDING Jun 13th, 2019

Adjust raises $227 million in funding to grow mobile measurement and fraud prevention

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

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Candy Crush Saga shoots down PUBG Mobile’s chances of topping gross ranking in the US WEEKLY CHARTS Jun 24th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: Candy Crush Saga shoots down PUBG Mobile’s chances of topping gross ranking in the US

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite makes $300,000 in first 24 hours from US and UK GALLEONS Jun 24th, 2019

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite makes $300,000 in first 24 hours from US and UK

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Cultist Simulator generates $226,000 on mobile in less than two months DATA Jun 19th, 2019

Cultist Simulator generates $226,000 on mobile in less than two months

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Empires & Puzzles racks up 34 million downloads FOREVER FRANCHISE Jun 18th, 2019

Empires & Puzzles racks up 34 million downloads

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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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1 as Brawl Stars strikes 100 million downloads worldwide in six months KNOCKOUT Jun 14th, 2019

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

One-third of all mobile downloads in 2018 were games according to App Annie

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Redbox Mobile: Over 35s more likely to download apps via adverts 1,500 PEOPLE SURVEYED GLOBALLY Jun 11th, 2019

Redbox Mobile: Over 35s more likely to download apps via adverts

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Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 INDIE SHOWCASE Jan 14th, 2019

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

Disney shuts down Star Wars: Rivals, Honor of Kings takes $3.5bn in revenue and Tencent unveil Lego Cube

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5 things we learned at Devcom and Gamescom 2018 GETTING KOLSCH WITH THE INDUSTRY Aug 31st, 2018

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4 The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018 BEST OF 2018 Aug 21st, 2018

The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018

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AR, VR and the Pixel 2: Google's Live Launch GOOGLE EVENT Oct 5th, 2017

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Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2017

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