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Subscription services are growing fast, but unlikely to become the dominant form of monetisation

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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Mar 24th, 2022

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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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Mobile Mavens: Activision Blizzard: So what will happen next? Mobile Mavens May 26th, 2023

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All Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jun 9th, 2023

All Apple Arcade games available now

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as Mobile Game of the Week: Magic and Machines WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Jun 9th, 2023

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As Top Drives turns five Hutch’s top devs tell us what makes a hit INTERVIEW Jun 9th, 2023

As Top Drives turns five Hutch’s top devs tell us what makes a hit

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Why hit developer Nordcurrent is moving to publishing INTERVIEW Jun 8th, 2023

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CEO of SuperGaming: “Battle royales are a frictionless entry point for Indians to play games” INTERVIEW Jun 7th, 2023

CEO of SuperGaming: “Battle royales are a frictionless entry point for Indians to play games”

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Apple’s Design Awards winners 2023 AWARDS Jun 7th, 2023

Apple’s Design Awards winners 2023

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Will Apple Arcade be enough to push the Vision Pro? NEW TECH Jun 7th, 2023

Will Apple Arcade be enough to push the Vision Pro?

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Mobile Game of the Week: Magic and Machines

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Supercell's Thunderdome: Flood Rush vs Squad Busters SOFT-LAUNCH Jun 5th, 2023

Supercell's Thunderdome: Flood Rush vs Squad Busters

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Noah Rosenfield talks Addagrams: “People enjoy investing in the betterment of themselves.”

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE] SOFT LAUNCH Jun 5th, 2023

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The latest and most interesting mobile games on the blockchain. BLOCKCHAIN MOBILE GAMES May 31st, 2023

The latest and most interesting mobile games on the blockchain.

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Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time REIGNING REVENUE RAISERS Jun 5th, 2023

Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time

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How to accelerate ASO with ChatGPT FEATURE May 29th, 2023

How to accelerate ASO with ChatGPT

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Maysalward’s Nour Khrais: “There is always an opportunity in the MENA region” INTERVIEW Jun 9th, 2023

Maysalward’s Nour Khrais: “There is always an opportunity in the MENA region”

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Uptodown CEO Luis Hernández on the rise of alternative app stores Q&A Jun 9th, 2023

Uptodown CEO Luis Hernández on the rise of alternative app stores

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As Top Drives turns five Hutch’s top devs tell us what makes a hit INTERVIEW Jun 9th, 2023

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Navigating hypercasual through the changing landscape of mass-market casual games CLARITY COMMITMENT COLLABORATION Jun 8th, 2023

Navigating hypercasual through the changing landscape of mass-market casual games

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Behind the scenes with “Indo-Futurism” battle royale game Indus INTERVIEW Jun 8th, 2023

Behind the scenes with “Indo-Futurism” battle royale game Indus

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Why hit developer Nordcurrent is moving to publishing INTERVIEW Jun 8th, 2023

Why hit developer Nordcurrent is moving to publishing

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CEO of SuperGaming: “Battle royales are a frictionless entry point for Indians to play games” INTERVIEW Jun 7th, 2023

CEO of SuperGaming: “Battle royales are a frictionless entry point for Indians to play games”

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Is Vietnam the up and coming hub of new game development talent? EXPERT OPINION Jun 6th, 2023

Is Vietnam the up and coming hub of new game development talent?

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Noah Rosenfield talks Addagrams: “People enjoy investing in the betterment of themselves.” INTERVIEW Jun 1st, 2023

Noah Rosenfield talks Addagrams: “People enjoy investing in the betterment of themselves.”

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Space Ape Games Charmie Kim and Simon Hade on the successes of Beatstar Q&A Jun 6th, 2023

Space Ape Games Charmie Kim and Simon Hade on the successes of Beatstar

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Fingersoft CEO Jaakko Kylmäoja on the future of their hit Hill Climb Racing Q&A May 17th, 2023

Fingersoft CEO Jaakko Kylmäoja on the future of their hit Hill Climb Racing

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AppsFlyer’s Adam Smart on why cross-platform is the future INTERVIEW May 24th, 2023

AppsFlyer’s Adam Smart on why cross-platform is the future

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Are hypercasual and midcore racing to become hybridcasual? THE RISE OF HYBRIDCASUAL Jun 5th, 2023

Are hypercasual and midcore racing to become hybridcasual?

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How the Mini Metro developer “beat the odds” to build a premium mobile games studio INTERVIEW Jun 1st, 2023

How the Mini Metro developer “beat the odds” to build a premium mobile games studio

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Sybo's game director Eoin O’Doherty talks Subway Surfers on the game's anniversary INTERVIEW May 15th, 2023

Sybo's game director Eoin O’Doherty talks Subway Surfers on the game's anniversary

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"Just make something and put it out there": Kaleidoscope Games discuss getting started in game development INDIE VIEW May 15th, 2023

"Just make something and put it out there": Kaleidoscope Games discuss getting started in game development

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Alchimerge: Merge and Crafts celebrates first anniversary

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as Genshin Impact records lowest monthly revenue as Honkai: Star Rail soars GENSHIN IMPACT Jun 9th, 2023

Genshin Impact records lowest monthly revenue as Honkai: Star Rail soars

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Pokémon Home goes Scarlet and Violet compatible with special rewards included GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL Jun 8th, 2023

Pokémon Home goes Scarlet and Violet compatible with special rewards included

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Minion Rush reaches tenth anniversary with over 1 billion installs MOBILE MINIONS Jun 8th, 2023

Minion Rush reaches tenth anniversary with over 1 billion installs

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Microsoft and the UK's CMA begin their appeal tribunal on July 24 ACQUIBLIZZ Jun 1st, 2023

Microsoft and the UK's CMA begin their appeal tribunal on July 24

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Mobile Game of the Week: Magic and Machines

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Supercell's Thunderdome: Flood Rush vs Squad Busters SOFT-LAUNCH Jun 5th, 2023

Supercell's Thunderdome: Flood Rush vs Squad Busters

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EA mobile developer Firemonkeys Studio hit with mass layoffs LAYOFFS Jun 2nd, 2023

EA mobile developer Firemonkeys Studio hit with mass layoffs

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MENA gaming revenue projected to close in on $6 billion by 2027 MENA REPORT Jun 2nd, 2023

MENA gaming revenue projected to close in on $6 billion by 2027

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Apple to introduce Privacy Manifests, the "Destroyer of fingerprinting" PRIVACY Jun 7th, 2023

Apple to introduce Privacy Manifests, the "Destroyer of fingerprinting"

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Stranger Things: 1984 developer BonusXP to shut down CLOSURES Jun 2nd, 2023

Stranger Things: 1984 developer BonusXP to shut down

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PUBG Mobile tops $10 billion in revenue PUBG MOBILE DOMINATION Jun 7th, 2023

PUBG Mobile tops $10 billion in revenue

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AppsFlyer’s Adam Smart on why cross-platform is the future

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The key to successful hypercasual prototypes FEATURE May 23rd, 2023

The key to successful hypercasual prototypes

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Rusty Lake co-founder Robin Ras celebrates success and shares what's next for the studio Q&A May 23rd, 2023

Rusty Lake co-founder Robin Ras celebrates success and shares what's next for the studio

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Sybo and Outplay on the collaboration behind Subway Surfers Blast Q&A May 19th, 2023

Sybo and Outplay on the collaboration behind Subway Surfers Blast

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Fingersoft CEO Jaakko Kylmäoja on the future of their hit Hill Climb Racing Q&A May 17th, 2023

Fingersoft CEO Jaakko Kylmäoja on the future of their hit Hill Climb Racing

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Are in-game ads the answer for developers? We asked Marc Merrill of Riot Games PUT PLAYERS FIRST Mar 30th, 2023

Are in-game ads the answer for developers? We asked Marc Merrill of Riot Games

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A recipe for success: bringing intrinsic in-game ads to Cooking Diary INTRINSIC IN GAME ADS Feb 7th, 2023

A recipe for success: bringing intrinsic in-game ads to Cooking Diary

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Five reasons why it’s more critical than ever to look to in-game advertising MAKE MORE OF MONETISATION Jan 11th, 2023

Five reasons why it’s more critical than ever to look to in-game advertising

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SpongeBob SquarePants is coming to Toca Life World SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Jun 8th, 2023

SpongeBob SquarePants is coming to Toca Life World

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Live service platform RallyHere forms partnership with Prophecy Games NEW PARTNERSHIP Jun 8th, 2023

Live service platform RallyHere forms partnership with Prophecy Games

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Turkish studio Spektra Games receives $1.25m investment FUNDING Jun 5th, 2023

Turkish studio Spektra Games receives $1.25m investment

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Xsolla announces new partnership with marketing platform YouAppi XSOLLA X YOUAPPI May 25th, 2023

Xsolla announces new partnership with marketing platform YouAppi

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BebopBee raises $4 million in funding to inspire "real-world connection" through mobile game brands CREATING CONNECTION May 24th, 2023

BebopBee raises $4 million in funding to inspire "real-world connection" through mobile game brands

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Carry1st brings India’s esports Mobile Premier League to Africa NEW PARTNERSHIP May 16th, 2023

Carry1st brings India’s esports Mobile Premier League to Africa

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Keywords Studios acquires Hardsuit Labs NEW ACQUISITION May 11th, 2023

Keywords Studios acquires Hardsuit Labs

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SuperAwesome and Yoti announce new partnership NEW PARTNERSHIP Apr 27th, 2023

SuperAwesome and Yoti announce new partnership

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Get connected: How to leverage connected TV for growth - webinar TUNE INTO CONNECTED TV Jun 2nd, 2023

Get connected: How to leverage connected TV for growth - webinar

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Mobile gaming declined 6.7% in 2022 NEWZOO REPORT May 31st, 2023

Mobile gaming declined 6.7% in 2022

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Gaming deals cooled down significantly in Q1 2023 INVESTGAME REPORT May 29th, 2023

Gaming deals cooled down significantly in Q1 2023

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Playtime, installs, and market growth: Who are the mobile industry’s top performers? ADJOE REPORT May 18th, 2023

Playtime, installs, and market growth: Who are the mobile industry’s top performers?

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Updates and record breakers: How did mobile gaming do in April? GAMEREFINERY REPORT May 16th, 2023

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Krafton reports record Q1 with $407.8M in sales PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE May 9th, 2023

Krafton reports record Q1 with $407.8M in sales

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Mobile eCPMs grow by 20 percent this March 2023 in mature markets NEW DATA FOR Q1 2023 May 9th, 2023

Mobile eCPMs grow by 20 percent this March 2023 in mature markets

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More than 7.8 million new ad creatives were released in Q1 2023, with video ads on the rise SOCIALPETA REPORT May 5th, 2023

More than 7.8 million new ad creatives were released in Q1 2023, with video ads on the rise

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Marvel Strike Force, Stumble Guys, and GSN: What has Savvy Games Group bought? SAVVY X SCOPELY Apr 6th, 2023

Marvel Strike Force, Stumble Guys, and GSN: What has Savvy Games Group bought?

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Seven more fireside chats with the mobile world's movers & shakers from PGC London 2023 FIRESIDE CHATS PART TWO Mar 20th, 2023

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Pocket Gamer Connects Advent Calendar: Days 23-24: A final thank you and happy holidays! TIME TO CELEBRATE Dec 23rd, 2022

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