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Why Boom Beach is still booming 8 years on Interview Nov 18th, 2021

Why Boom Beach is still booming 8 years on

  • Boom Beach
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PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge News Oct 18th, 2021

PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge

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How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye Feature Oct 5th, 2021

How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye

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PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook Comment & Opinion Sep 23rd, 2021

PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook

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Mobile Mavens: Reaction to China's new restrictions on children gaming Mobile Mavens Aug 31st, 2021

Mobile Mavens: Reaction to China's new restrictions on children gaming

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Hot Five: Everdale, Everdale, Everdale... Hot Five Aug 30th, 2021

Hot Five: Everdale, Everdale, Everdale...

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10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Aug 13th, 2021

10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise? The IAP Inspector Oct 26th, 2020

How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise?

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Pokemon Day: How are The Pokemon Company's recent mobile releases performing?

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Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts Data & Research Dec 4th, 2019

Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts

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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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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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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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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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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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Jam City’s Josh Yguado on why we're 'nowhere near peak mobile gaming' Interview Nov 3rd, 2021

Jam City’s Josh Yguado on why we're 'nowhere near peak mobile gaming'

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Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital Interview Oct 27th, 2021

Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital

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Why Boom Beach is still booming 8 years on Interview Nov 18th, 2021

Why Boom Beach is still booming 8 years on

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How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye Feature Oct 5th, 2021

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Why user generated content is key in Trivia Crack

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

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262 50 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded SOFT LAUNCH Nov 29th, 2021

50 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Lego Star Wars: Castaways WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Nov 26th, 2021

Mobile Game of the Week: Lego Star Wars: Castaways

Updated: Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time REIGNING REVENUE RAISERS Nov 26th, 2021

Updated: Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time

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How Lego Star Wars: Castaways was built "from the ground up" for Apple Arcade MAKING OF Nov 23rd, 2021

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as Top 5 Japan-only mobile games we wanna play MOST WANTED LIST Nov 18th, 2021

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Jam City’s Josh Yguado on why we're 'nowhere near peak mobile gaming' DONE DEAL Nov 3rd, 2021

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Updated: Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time

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Mobile Game of the Week: Lego Star Wars: Castaways

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Jam City’s Josh Yguado on why we're 'nowhere near peak mobile gaming' DONE DEAL Nov 3rd, 2021

Jam City’s Josh Yguado on why we're 'nowhere near peak mobile gaming'

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Five years on, how Gardenscapes changed the match-three market LIVE AND KICKING Oct 28th, 2021

Five years on, how Gardenscapes changed the match-three market

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Ablaze Interactive discuss solo development and blending genres

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The importance of avoiding campaign overlap between ad types

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What to do after a hypercasual game release: check out game support check-list

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Why hypercasual publishers should start exploring IAP monetisation WHAT'S NEXT? Nov 23rd, 2021

Why hypercasual publishers should start exploring IAP monetisation

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Where to get ideas for future creatives CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING Nov 23rd, 2021

Where to get ideas for future creatives

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How Lego Star Wars: Castaways was built "from the ground up" for Apple Arcade MAKING OF Nov 23rd, 2021

How Lego Star Wars: Castaways was built "from the ground up" for Apple Arcade

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Why Boom Beach is still booming 8 years on LIVE AND KICKING Nov 18th, 2021

Why Boom Beach is still booming 8 years on

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There's more to the metaverse than Meta META METAVERSE Nov 17th, 2021

There's more to the metaverse than Meta

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How Lego Star Wars: Castaways was built "from the ground up" for Apple Arcade MAKING OF Nov 23rd, 2021

How Lego Star Wars: Castaways was built "from the ground up" for Apple Arcade

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How Retro Bowl went from a simple RPG to a number one sports game

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The importance of avoiding campaign overlap between ad types NEVER THE TWAIN Nov 24th, 2021

The importance of avoiding campaign overlap between ad types

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Jam City’s Josh Yguado on why we're 'nowhere near peak mobile gaming' DONE DEAL Nov 3rd, 2021

Jam City’s Josh Yguado on why we're 'nowhere near peak mobile gaming'

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2 What to do after a hypercasual game release: check out game support check-list WHAT'S NEXT? Nov 24th, 2021

What to do after a hypercasual game release: check out game support check-list

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Five years on, how Gardenscapes changed the match-three market LIVE AND KICKING Oct 28th, 2021

Five years on, how Gardenscapes changed the match-three market

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Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital DONE DEAL Oct 27th, 2021

Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital

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Why Boom Beach is still booming 8 years on LIVE AND KICKING Nov 18th, 2021

Why Boom Beach is still booming 8 years on

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Free Fire crossover with Money Heist gets a second run

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37 second video ads are most effective for hypercasual games

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Yodo1 mobile game competition: enter today and win up to $1000

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Coin Master creator Moon Active raises $300 million on $5 billion valuation MASTER OF COINS Nov 25th, 2021

Coin Master creator Moon Active raises $300 million on $5 billion valuation

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Hutch appoints three senior hires to further expand operations

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UK-based indie studio Pocket Burger Games raises $1 million for casual mobile games THE SECRET SAUCE Nov 23rd, 2021

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Viker partners with Zebedee to bring Bitcoin rewards to mobile games BRINGING IN BITCOIN Nov 22nd, 2021

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