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Remote Working: How Luna Labs CEO Steven Chard runs the company across London and Minsk from home
"I would say that being required to work remotely forced our hand internally to further improve our remote culture."
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#blacklivesmatter
POC in Mobile: The Game Band lead animator Cedric Adams on why we need diverse main characters
"We need to inspire and facilitate growth in diverse creators"
Takin' Care Of Business
Mobile games jobs weekly: Rogue Games shakes up its leadership, Luna Labs makes six hires, and Tom Hall joins Resolution Games
The movers, shakers and job opportunities in mobile gaming
Bitter Pill To Swallow
What happened to Dr. Mario World?
Nearly one year on, how has the plumber turned medical professional fared?
Live & Kicking
Live and Kicking: GSN Games SVP Wilhelm Taht on Bingo Bash's 10-year survival
"We've had some of the very best months in the history of Bingo Bash at the beginning of 2020"
Winding Worlds
Indie Spotlight: Why KO_OP believes Apple Arcade is the perfect introduction for non-gamers
KO_OP art director and game designer Sam Boucher on the forming of the studio
Unite 'em All
Tencent and The Pokémon Company debut Pokémon Unite
Five-versus-five MOBA will launch on mobile and Nintendo Switch
No Go Phoenix Rangers
Rovio cancels in-development puzzle RPG Phoenix Rangers after seven months in soft launch
Team will be reassigned to different projects within the studio
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: Supercell's Hay Day Pop designer Ayushman Datta Gupta on developing games from home
"Personally, I can't wait to go back to working in the office"
Takin' Care Of Business
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130 Million Players
Live and Kicking: How Plague Inc. took over the world
Ndemic Creations founder James Vaughan on the "unbelievable journey"
Let's Go Brush Teeth
Pokémon Smile, Pokémon Café Mix and Pokémon Snap sequel debut in digital event
Set to follow up with another presentation next week
Ice Ice Baby
Making Of: How Frogmind's Rumble Hockey was turned around in 9 months
"Approximately 50,000 new players per day since its launch"
Western Launch Incoming?
Update: Bethesda and Gaea Mobile launch Fallout Shelter Online in Asia
Available to download in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, and more
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: Jessica Sundell on her journey from Angry Birds to The Walking Dead to Hatch Kids
"The lockdown and its limitations have challenged us to be extra creative in addressing issues"
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Hot Five: Brawl Stars heads to China, Wooga offers a murder mystery and Zynga plans more acquisitions
The hottest stories from the mobile games industry over the last week
Takin' Care Of Business
Mobile games jobs weekly: Spotify ad boss joins Activision, Rovio's Jakob Longer promoted, Ubisoft RedLynx vacancies aplenty
The movers, shakers and job opportunities in mobile gaming
Tales Of Memo
Indie Spotlight: How a school maths assignment inspired Tales of Memo
"The game originated from a conversation I had with my daughter"
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PGC Digital: MyTona's Cooking Diary serves up more than 10 million downloads
One million daily active users
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PGC Digital: King's Zoe Williams discusses the differences between live ops
Reoccuring versus Unique versus Uppercase
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Remote Working: Pixel Federation co-founder Lucia Šicková on the "rollercoaster of Zoom"
"I discovered that the [gaming] space is a perfect mix of creativity and structure where I can make the most of my skill set."
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PGC Digital: Critical Ops fires to 80 million installs worldwide
Five million monthly active users
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PGC Digital: Garena's valuation has grown by 23 times in six years, according to Bitkfraft Ventures
Singaporean developer's value jump from $1 billion to $23 billion
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PGC Digital: Mobile esports tournament platform BAASH soft-launches on Android
Partnership teased with PC brand
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PGC Digital: PUBG Mobile esports surpassed 532 million views globally in 2019
56 million hours worth of watched content
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PGC Digital: So Real Digital Twins head Kelly Vero on the benefits of machine learning with game art
"We're creating a solution for a problem for something everyone has or will have"
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PGC Digital: "I believe as an industry we’ve become too data-driven," says Boomzap Entertainment co-founder
Christopher Natsuume was part of a panel discussing 'Workflow Tricks for Growing Teams'
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PGC Digital: AppMagic CEO Max Samorukov on building a product strategy from market research
"What games make up the majority of these downloads in this genre?"
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PGC Digital: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp experiences its best month for downloads ever
Over 7 million downloads for the month
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PGC Digital: Games-related acquisitions down 45% year-on-year in Q1 2020
Declining activity in China across the period
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PGC Digital: Social, IP and localisation pivotal when launching in the West, says Tencent's Aras Senyuz
Netmarble's partnership with Marvel on Marvel Future Fight cited
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PGC Digital: Rovio's Alexei Ryan outlines industry shortcuts on hiring and why recruiters should improve
A third of hires take place internally globally today
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Street Life
How does Forza Street monetise?
Is the racer's mobile debut generous or greedy?
2.5 Million Dau
Making Of: How Scrabble GO achieved "the best launch ever for a mobile word game"
"Over 2.5 million people are playing daily for an average of 100 minutes each day"
From Rockstar To Indie
Indie Spotlight: Tony Gowland reflects on running Ant Workshop for five years
"One thing I really liked when I got away from triple-A development was that the teams and development times got a lot smaller."
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Remote Working: Amber head Mihai Sfrijan on balancing the positives and negatives of lockdown
"I was a bit wary of how all of this was going to work"
Missingno
What happened to Pokémon Sleep?
One year on and we still are none the wiser as to what the iOS and Android game is
Breakout
Playrix soft-launches new match-three RPG Puzzle Breakers
New title available on Android in the Philippines
Expansion
Square Enix branches out into "entertainment AI" with forming of new company
Square Enix AI and Arts Alchmey Co. will spearhead research and development
End Of Battle
Terra Battle developer "heartbroken" to end service six years after launch
RPG from Final Fantasy creator will shut on June 30th, 2020
Full Throttle
KartRider Rush+ zooms to 10 million global downloads in two weeks
3.57 million daily active users
Live And Learn
Sega and Paramount Pictures reteam for Sonic the Hedgehog film sequel
Jeff Fowler returning to direct the motion picture
Back From The Brink
Indie Spotlight: Efecto Studios CEO and co-founder Eivar Rojas Castro on bouncing back from closure
"It was a six-person team with no clients and no local industry"
Rise Of 7.6%
Slovakian games industry to reach $60.5 million revenue in 2020
Pixel Federation tops employers across the country
Three Is A Magic Number
Match-three games dominate US iOS market at 21% of revenue
Candy Crush, Toy Blast, Gardenscapes, and more
Pokemon Stay Home
Pokemon GO Fest goes digital with two-day global event
Scheduled to take place from July 25th to 26th, 2020
1.5 Million Users
Carry1st raises $4 million to help grow mobile games in Africa
"Social gaming is the largest and fastest-growing form of mobile media"
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Remote Working: Clipwire Games' James Aiken on developing from home after just relocating
"When you can't go out and see friends and family it’s important to make plans to communicate with people outside of work"