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Hot Five: Unity whips up a storm, Zynga vets raise $8M for NFT dinosaurs, and Niantic launches a new game Hot Five Sep 18th, 2023

Hot Five: Unity whips up a storm, Zynga vets raise $8M for NFT dinosaurs, and Niantic launches a new game

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Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days Week that was Sep 15th, 2023

Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days

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PG.biz Podcast - Hot gaming trends and ad formats that are losing steam News Sep 14th, 2023

PG.biz Podcast - Hot gaming trends and ad formats that are losing steam

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Mobile Mavens: Can we preserve classic mobile games forever? Mobile Mavens Aug 22nd, 2023

Mobile Mavens: Can we preserve classic mobile games forever?

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PG.biz podcast - Finding and growing your niche

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PG.biz Podcast - gaming for good

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Week in Views - What caught our editorial eyes in the last seven days

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Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry Hall of Fame Jun 14th, 2022

Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry

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Subscription services are growing fast, but unlikely to become the dominant form of monetisation Comment & Opinion Jun 7th, 2022

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

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What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions? Data & Research May 6th, 2022

What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions?

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

Top 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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as Pokemon Day: How are The Pokemon Company's recent mobile releases performing? The Charticle Feb 27th, 2020

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

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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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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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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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Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days Week that was Sep 15th, 2023

Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days

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Hot Five: Unity whips up a storm, Zynga vets raise $8M for NFT dinosaurs, and Niantic launches a new game Hot Five Sep 18th, 2023

Hot Five: Unity whips up a storm, Zynga vets raise $8M for NFT dinosaurs, and Niantic launches a new game

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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: Mystic Games gets blunt about blockchain, YouTube Playables roll out, and Candy Crush dethroned Hot Five Sep 11th, 2023

Hot Five: Mystic Games gets blunt about blockchain, YouTube Playables roll out, and Candy Crush dethroned

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PG.biz Podcast - Hot gaming trends and ad formats that are losing steam News Sep 14th, 2023

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Mobile Mavens: Can we preserve classic mobile games forever? Mobile Mavens Aug 22nd, 2023

Mobile Mavens: Can we preserve classic mobile games forever?

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Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry Hall of Fame Jun 14th, 2022

Hall of Fame: Jani Karlsson and pioneering the earliest days of the mobile games industry

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Subscription services are growing fast, but unlikely to become the dominant form of monetisation Comment & Opinion Jun 7th, 2022

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

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Unity's Runtime Fee Farrago: The whole story in one place UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 21st, 2023

Unity's Runtime Fee Farrago: The whole story in one place

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Brawl Stars $2bn revenue is just the icing on Supercell's success UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Sep 20th, 2023

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Unity's biggest games: The big names who'll pay the biggest bucks

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Kinoa's Hen Gelberg on “The true power of LiveOps”

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Over 1,200 games professionals gather in Helsinki for the 40th Pocket Gamer Connects conference FINNISH FOMO Sep 15th, 2023

Over 1,200 games professionals gather in Helsinki for the 40th Pocket Gamer Connects conference

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Satu Ahlman on creating high performance teams while avoiding burnout PGC HELSINKI 2023 Sep 14th, 2023

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as The complete list of Netflix Games A GLIMPSE OF GROWTH Sep 13th, 2023

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Unity's big cash grab: Unity Runtime Fee explained, what it could mean, and how you can dodge it UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 13th, 2023

Unity's big cash grab: Unity Runtime Fee explained, what it could mean, and how you can dodge it

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Over 1,200 games professionals gather in Helsinki for the 40th Pocket Gamer Connects conference FINNISH FOMO Sep 15th, 2023

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Unity's biggest games: The big names who'll pay the biggest bucks UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 19th, 2023

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Kinoa's Hen Gelberg on “The true power of LiveOps” PGC HELSINKI 2023 Sep 15th, 2023

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE] SOFT LAUNCH Sep 4th, 2023

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as The complete list of Netflix Games A GLIMPSE OF GROWTH Sep 13th, 2023

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Apple's iPhone 15 is out today: What's new and what's the verdict? IPHONE 15 Sep 22nd, 2023

Apple's iPhone 15 is out today: What's new and what's the verdict?

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"Your mobile game studio is dying. Here’s how to save it" COMMENT & OPINION Sep 21st, 2023

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Behind the scenes with Ubisoft RedLynx for the making of Gwen’s Getaway Q&A Sep 20th, 2023

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The challenge of IP rights as Netflix expands further into games Q&A Sep 20th, 2023

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Candywriter’s Gabby Bradford Pigott on the value of partnerships INSPIRING WOMEN IN GAMES Sep 19th, 2023

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Dungeon Hunter 6: Rebooting a classic franchise for a new generation COLLABORATIONS Sep 19th, 2023

Dungeon Hunter 6: Rebooting a classic franchise for a new generation

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Kinoa's Hen Gelberg on “The true power of LiveOps” PGC HELSINKI 2023 Sep 15th, 2023

Kinoa's Hen Gelberg on “The true power of LiveOps”

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Unity's pricing bombshell: The unanswered questions UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 15th, 2023

Unity's pricing bombshell: The unanswered questions

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Unity's big cash grab: Unity Runtime Fee explained, what it could mean, and how you can dodge it UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 13th, 2023

Unity's big cash grab: Unity Runtime Fee explained, what it could mean, and how you can dodge it

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John Riccitiello: devs who shun monetisation are "pure, brilliant" and "fucking idiots" UNITY X IRONSOURCE Jul 13th, 2022

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Liftoff's Sven Elstermann on monetising in today's competitive app landscape MAXIMISE REVENUE IMPROVE USER EXPERIENCE Sep 15th, 2023

Liftoff's Sven Elstermann on monetising in today's competitive app landscape

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Kinoa's Hen Gelberg on “The true power of LiveOps” PGC HELSINKI 2023 Sep 15th, 2023

Kinoa's Hen Gelberg on “The true power of LiveOps”

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How Monopoly GO! became the #1 mobile board game in the world Q&A Jun 22nd, 2023

How Monopoly GO! became the #1 mobile board game in the world

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Unity's pricing bombshell: The unanswered questions UNITY RUNTIME FEE Sep 15th, 2023

Unity's pricing bombshell: The unanswered questions

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How to win at Pocket Gamer Connects' Big Indie Pitch PITCH LIKE A PRO Sep 5th, 2023

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Dungeon Hunter 6: Rebooting a classic franchise for a new generation COLLABORATIONS Sep 19th, 2023

Dungeon Hunter 6: Rebooting a classic franchise for a new generation

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Developers issue collective ultimatum to Unity. "No more ironSource or Unity Ads until RunTime conditions are reviewed."

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European Games Developer Federation takes a swipe at Unity

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“We fucked up on many levels..." Unity co-founder David Helgason wades into the Runtime Fee debacle

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Unity's Runtime Fee Farrago: The whole story in one place

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Playtika set to acquire Innplay Labs for up to $300 million ACQUISITION Sep 15th, 2023

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Miniclip's Sérgio Varanda does the math on Unity's controversial new pricing

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

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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

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Spectarium raises €5M in Seed Round to bolster personalised AI RPG Myths

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Playtika set to acquire Innplay Labs for up to $300 million ACQUISITION Sep 15th, 2023

Playtika set to acquire Innplay Labs for up to $300 million

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Zynga, FunPlus and NetEase veterans receive $8M investment for NFT dinosaur game

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Half of all game development could be done by AI within 10 years

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China dominates among the top 100 global mobile publishers

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Almost half of the simulation genre's $2.7 billion revenue comes from the US

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The puzzle genre has generated $42 billion in revenue, with swap games accounting for $25 billion

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2023

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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard: The complete timeline ACQUIBLIZZ Jul 31st, 2023

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard: The complete timeline

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Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 213,673

Total Apps Seen in US App Store: 5,441,574

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What inspired Fox to double down on mobile gaming? The Charticle Dec 18th, 2017

What inspired Fox to double down on mobile gaming?

A look at Fox IP and how it's fared on mobile

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The rise and rise of EA’s 'very profitable' $600 million mobile business Data & Research Feb 7th, 2017

The rise and rise of EA’s 'very profitable' $600 million mobile business

Breaking the $600 million barrier

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EA Mobile sees Q3 FY14 sales up 13% to $97 million News Jan 29th, 2014

EA Mobile sees Q3 FY14 sales up 13% to $97 million

Simpsons leads - lifetime sales now $130 million

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Value of quarterly activity in The Simpsons: Tapped Out estimated at $58 million News Jul 31st, 2013

Value of quarterly activity in The Simpsons: Tapped Out estimated at $58 million

Game on the up with 5.4 million DAUs

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EA's The Simpsons: Tapped Out makes $23 million in 3 months News Jan 31st, 2013

EA's The Simpsons: Tapped Out makes $23 million in 3 months

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EA Mobile continues free-to-play push with The Simpsons: Tapped Out News Feb 21st, 2012

EA Mobile continues free-to-play push with The Simpsons: Tapped Out

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