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Hot Five: PUBG Mobile makes $176 million, Supercell isn't about the money, and Rovio soft-launches Angry Birds Tennis Hot Five Feb 17th, 2020

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Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell News Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot

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East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal

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as As Rush Wars hits soft launch, how are Supercell’s other games doing? The Charticle Aug 26th, 2019

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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

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The internet reacts to the Nintendo Switch reveal

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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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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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Not immune but Finland has given GamerGate the cold shoulder

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How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay

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1 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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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: PUBG Mobile makes $176 million, Supercell isn't about the money, and Rovio soft-launches Angry Birds Tennis Hot Five Feb 17th, 2020

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222 50 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Angry Birds Tennis to Minecraft Earth and Tetris Royale SOFT LAUNCH Feb 24th, 2020

50 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Angry Birds Tennis to Minecraft Earth and Tetris Royale

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Recap: How has the coronavirus impacted the mobile games industry? CORONAVIRUS IMPACT Feb 21st, 2020

Recap: How has the coronavirus impacted the mobile games industry?

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Game For Peace finally shoots to the pinnacle of global top grossing chart WINNER WINNER Feb 21st, 2020

Game For Peace finally shoots to the pinnacle of global top grossing chart

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Game For Peace finally shoots to the pinnacle of global top grossing chart

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Recap: How has the coronavirus impacted the mobile games industry? CORONAVIRUS IMPACT Feb 21st, 2020

Recap: How has the coronavirus impacted the mobile games industry?

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Jobs in Games: Kolibri's Chris Ling on how data can impact a game's development

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as Is the mobile gaming market ready for hypercasual 2.0? HYPERCASUAL 2.0? Feb 25th, 2020

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Why investors misunderstand esports' opportunity

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Diverse and independent teams are the key to connecting with global audiences COMPANY CULTURE Feb 24th, 2020

Diverse and independent teams are the key to connecting with global audiences

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as The effect of coronavirus on consumer mobile gaming habits in China MAHJONG ANYONE? Feb 21st, 2020

The effect of coronavirus on consumer mobile gaming habits in China

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Making Of: How East Side Games got the It's Always Sunny gang to go mobile

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Huuuge Games teams up with Double Star to release Bow Land - a ground-breaking mobile game BOW LAND Feb 20th, 2020

Huuuge Games teams up with Double Star to release Bow Land - a ground-breaking mobile game

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Huuuge Games teams up with Double Star to release Bow Land - a ground-breaking mobile game BOW LAND Feb 20th, 2020

Huuuge Games teams up with Double Star to release Bow Land - a ground-breaking mobile game

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as The effect of coronavirus on consumer mobile gaming habits in China MAHJONG ANYONE? Feb 21st, 2020

The effect of coronavirus on consumer mobile gaming habits in China

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Making Of: How East Side Games got the It's Always Sunny gang to go mobile

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Why investors misunderstand esports' opportunity

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How Snap Games tackles exclusivity, monetisation, and competition from Apple Arcade A NEW CONTENDER Feb 7th, 2020

How Snap Games tackles exclusivity, monetisation, and competition from Apple Arcade

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Diverse and independent teams are the key to connecting with global audiences COMPANY CULTURE Feb 24th, 2020

Diverse and independent teams are the key to connecting with global audiences

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Eli Roth looks set to direct a Borderlands film SHOOT A FILM Feb 25th, 2020

Eli Roth looks set to direct a Borderlands film

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Riot Games claims $10 million settlement for gender discrimination lawsuit is "fair and adequate" COURTROOM DRAMA Feb 25th, 2020

Riot Games claims $10 million settlement for gender discrimination lawsuit is "fair and adequate"

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2 as Report: Apple will require all App Store games to have ISBNs in China from July NEW POLICY Feb 25th, 2020

Report: Apple will require all App Store games to have ISBNs in China from July

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as Sega invests in Indian music startup Flutin "GREAT POTENTIAL" Feb 25th, 2020

Sega invests in Indian music startup Flutin

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Esports firm Tempo Storm raises $3.3 million to launch a game NEXT STEP Feb 21st, 2020

Esports firm Tempo Storm raises $3.3 million to launch a game

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HQ Trivia has seemingly risen from the dead

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as Nexon profits grow to $1.03 billion as MapleStory M sees impressive revenue growth NEXON FINANCIALS Q4 FY19 Feb 20th, 2020

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Report: Apple will require all App Store games to have ISBNs in China from July

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Google launches hypercasual HTML5 platform GameSnacks GOOGLE GAMESNACKS Feb 21st, 2020

Google launches hypercasual HTML5 platform GameSnacks

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Honour of Kings was the top-grossing mobile game in January 2020 MAKING MONEY Feb 21st, 2020

Honour of Kings was the top-grossing mobile game in January 2020

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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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as Sega invests in Indian music startup Flutin "GREAT POTENTIAL" Feb 25th, 2020

Sega invests in Indian music startup Flutin

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as Sony Pictures teams with Smilegate for Crossfire film adaption SCREENPLAY WRITTEN Feb 25th, 2020

Sony Pictures teams with Smilegate for Crossfire film adaption

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Sybo Games partners with Walmart for exclusive Subway Surfers merchandise "SUBSURF EXPERIENCE" Feb 24th, 2020

Sybo Games partners with Walmart for exclusive Subway Surfers merchandise

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Esports firm Tempo Storm raises $3.3 million to launch a game NEXT STEP Feb 21st, 2020

Esports firm Tempo Storm raises $3.3 million to launch a game

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Update: Epic Games teases Marvel's Deadpool crossover in Fortnite Chapter 2 MAXIMUM EFFORT Feb 20th, 2020

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Activision Blizzard co-president leaks Diablo and Overwatch series in the works for Netflix ANIME AND ANIMATION Feb 19th, 2020

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Ride & Crash Games partners with Swedish death metal band Amon Amarth for 8-bit mobile game SECOND COLLABORATION Feb 19th, 2020

Ride & Crash Games partners with Swedish death metal band Amon Amarth for 8-bit mobile game

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European mobile games revenue expected to reach $12.9 billion in 2022 EUROPEAN TAKE OVER Feb 24th, 2020

European mobile games revenue expected to reach $12.9 billion in 2022

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as The effect of coronavirus on consumer mobile gaming habits in China MAHJONG ANYONE? Feb 21st, 2020

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Finding success in mobile games the second and third time around Video Dec 22nd, 2016

Finding success in mobile games the second and third time around

Oscar Clark asks some industry experts how they do it

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The 10 commandments of free-to-play game design Video Oct 11th, 2016

The 10 commandments of free-to-play game design

Thou shalt not try to change free-to-play

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Hothead on how game designers can stay ahead of the competition News Aug 31st, 2016

Hothead on how game designers can stay ahead of the competition

Creative Director Mike Inglehart gives three key areas

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