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Hot 5: Halfbrick returns, a new mobile gaming taxonomy, and 6 years of Marvel Puzzle Quest Hot Five Oct 21st, 2019

Hot 5: Halfbrick returns, a new mobile gaming taxonomy, and 6 years of Marvel Puzzle Quest

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay Feature Oct 15th, 2019

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

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Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour Mobile Mavens Oct 9th, 2019

Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour

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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot Interview Oct 8th, 2019

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

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as East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal Regulars Sep 9th, 2019

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

As Rush Wars hits soft launch, how are Supercell’s other games doing?

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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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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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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? Comment & Opinion Aug 28th, 2015

Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?

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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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3 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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Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm News Sep 15th, 2014

Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay Feature Oct 15th, 2019

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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Hot 5: The rise of Roblox, Call of Duty is mobile's fastest ever launch, and you won't like Ilkka when he's angry Hot Five Oct 14th, 2019

Hot 5: The rise of Roblox, Call of Duty is mobile's fastest ever launch, and you won't like Ilkka when he's angry

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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? Comment & Opinion Aug 28th, 2015

Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?

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Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour Mobile Mavens Oct 9th, 2019

Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour

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Hot 5: Halfbrick returns, a new mobile gaming taxonomy, and 6 years of Marvel Puzzle Quest Hot Five Oct 21st, 2019

Hot 5: Halfbrick returns, a new mobile gaming taxonomy, and 6 years of Marvel Puzzle Quest

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3 as Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries The Charticle Mar 8th, 2018

Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries

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5 How does Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire monetise? The IAP Inspector Jul 7th, 2017

How does Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire monetise?

  • Monetisation
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  • Final Fantasy
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Updated: 21 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Oct 16th, 2019

Updated: 21 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay LIVEOP LEARNINGS Oct 15th, 2019

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

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as How Jordan is building on solid foundations to take its game sector global OUTWARD BOUND Oct 9th, 2019

How Jordan is building on solid foundations to take its game sector global

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203 52 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Payday: Crime War and Candy Crush Tales SOFT LAUNCH Oct 2nd, 2019

52 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Payday: Crime War and Candy Crush Tales

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Apple Arcade - the First Time User Experience perspective START HERE Sep 20th, 2019

Apple Arcade - the First Time User Experience perspective

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Build fast and start playing: How Ministry of Games created its Rapid Development Funnel FASTER, FASTER Sep 11th, 2019

Build fast and start playing: How Ministry of Games created its Rapid Development Funnel

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as MENA Region Focus: Behind the scenes on the Saudi Arabian games industry REGION FOCUS Sep 10th, 2019

MENA Region Focus: Behind the scenes on the Saudi Arabian games industry

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as What we learned at the Bridge between East and West summit in association with Mintegral EAST AND WEST Sep 5th, 2019

What we learned at the Bridge between East and West summit in association with Mintegral

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1 How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay LIVEOP LEARNINGS Oct 15th, 2019

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

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Updated: 21 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Oct 16th, 2019

Updated: 21 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales

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Games industry roundup: Behind Total war: Three Kingdoms' success, blockchain game Project Genesis heads to Steam, and YouTube defends targeted harassment ROUNDUP Jun 10th, 2019

Games industry roundup: Behind Total war: Three Kingdoms' success, blockchain game Project Genesis heads to Steam, and YouTube defends targeted harassment

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as How Jordan is building on solid foundations to take its game sector global OUTWARD BOUND Oct 9th, 2019

How Jordan is building on solid foundations to take its game sector global

  • MENA
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3 as Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT Mar 8th, 2018

Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries

  • Charticle
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5 How does Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Jul 7th, 2017

How does Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire monetise?

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6 How does Coin Master monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Feb 7th, 2018

How does Coin Master monetise?

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2 Chart rush: The making of Clash of Clans MAKING OF Oct 17th, 2012

Chart rush: The making of Clash of Clans

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Indie Michal Pawlowski on finding a fresh, happy mind to come up with OXXO INDIE SPOTLIGHT Oct 15th, 2019

Indie Michal Pawlowski on finding a fresh, happy mind to come up with OXXO

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Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour FALSE START Oct 9th, 2019

Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour

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1 Madfinger Games CEO on why he's happy to compete with Call of Duty: Mobile CROSSHAIR RIVALS Oct 9th, 2019

Madfinger Games CEO on why he's happy to compete with Call of Duty: Mobile

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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot JOBS IN GAMES Oct 8th, 2019

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

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1 Roblox’s masterplan to enable young game devs to make $50 million a year on its platform BEYOND GAMING Oct 8th, 2019

Roblox’s masterplan to enable young game devs to make $50 million a year on its platform

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Opinion: Here come the Belgians WALLOONED Oct 7th, 2019

Opinion: Here come the Belgians

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Snap Finger Click's Joanna Haslam on a unique career in social games WHAT'S NEXT? Oct 7th, 2019

Snap Finger Click's Joanna Haslam on a unique career in social games

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Nintendo slouches towards $1 billion of mobile revenue SLOW TRAIN Oct 3rd, 2019

Nintendo slouches towards $1 billion of mobile revenue

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1 Roblox’s masterplan to enable young game devs to make $50 million a year on its platform BEYOND GAMING Oct 8th, 2019

Roblox’s masterplan to enable young game devs to make $50 million a year on its platform

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1 How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? SHARP SHINY THINGS Mar 25th, 2019

How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise?

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Indie Michal Pawlowski on finding a fresh, happy mind to come up with OXXO INDIE SPOTLIGHT Oct 15th, 2019

Indie Michal Pawlowski on finding a fresh, happy mind to come up with OXXO

  • Indies
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2 Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm? MICRO-TRANSACT THAT Aug 28th, 2015

Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?

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1 Madfinger Games CEO on why he's happy to compete with Call of Duty: Mobile CROSSHAIR RIVALS Oct 9th, 2019

Madfinger Games CEO on why he's happy to compete with Call of Duty: Mobile

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3 Why the 70:30 App Store revenue split is doomed TIME TO RECALCULATE Dec 14th, 2018

Why the 70:30 App Store revenue split is doomed

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3 Subway Surfers breaks 1 billion downloads barrier, boasting 27 million daily active players SURF'S UP Sep 24th, 2015

Subway Surfers breaks 1 billion downloads barrier, boasting 27 million daily active players

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Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour FALSE START Oct 9th, 2019

Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour

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Casual mobile game dev MadBox raises $17 million PARISIAN AMBITION Oct 21st, 2019

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MENA indie devs can win a trip to PG Connects Jordan 2019 COMPETITION Oct 2nd, 2019

MENA indie devs can win a trip to PG Connects Jordan 2019

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as Deca Games plays F2P’s long tail, buying 4 one-time hits from GREE STILL GAME Oct 17th, 2019

Deca Games plays F2P’s long tail, buying 4 one-time hits from GREE

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Riot Games goes mobile with official League of Legends game and autobattler Teamfight Tactics MOBILE MOBA Oct 16th, 2019

Riot Games goes mobile with official League of Legends game and autobattler Teamfight Tactics

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Google pulls the plug on Daydream, its mobile VR platform AR IS THE FUTURE Oct 16th, 2019

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Tilting Point fleshes out its monetisation tools with Gondola acquisition LESS WORK MORE MONEY Oct 17th, 2019

Tilting Point fleshes out its monetisation tools with Gondola acquisition

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You'll need a cable to use Stadia's wireless controller with PC or mobile NOT ENTIRELY WIRELESS Oct 17th, 2019

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as Jetpack Joyride studio Halfbrick returns with fast-paced PVP Magic Brick Wars RASKULLS FACE OFF Oct 18th, 2019

Jetpack Joyride studio Halfbrick returns with fast-paced PVP Magic Brick Wars

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Seeking a job in the games industry - part two: The interview process JOBS IN GAMES Jul 8th, 2019

Seeking a job in the games industry - part two: The interview process

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Seeking a job in the games industry - part one: The application process

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2 User acquisition for beginners: A checklist GUIDE TO UA May 21st, 2019

User acquisition for beginners: A checklist

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Financing your indie games development studio - part four: Due diligence THE FINAL STEP May 1st, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part four: Due diligence

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Financing your indie games development studio - part two: The killer pitch PITCH PERFECT Apr 10th, 2019

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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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Financing your indie games development studio - Part one STUDIO FINANCE Mar 29th, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - Part one

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Casual mobile game dev MadBox raises $17 million PARISIAN AMBITION Oct 21st, 2019

Casual mobile game dev MadBox raises $17 million

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  • Paris
  • Barcelona
Tilting Point fleshes out its monetisation tools with Gondola acquisition LESS WORK MORE MONEY Oct 17th, 2019

Tilting Point fleshes out its monetisation tools with Gondola acquisition

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as Deca Games plays F2P’s long tail, buying 4 one-time hits from GREE STILL GAME Oct 17th, 2019

Deca Games plays F2P’s long tail, buying 4 one-time hits from GREE

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NorthEdge Capital acquires Curve, Kuju and Testronic for $113 million UK POWERHOUSE Oct 14th, 2019

NorthEdge Capital acquires Curve, Kuju and Testronic for $113 million

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1 Meta Games secures $2 million in seed funding round ESPORTS BOOST Oct 10th, 2019

Meta Games secures $2 million in seed funding round

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PC game clip sharing platform Medal.tv adds mobile games, acquiring Megacool COMPLIMENTARY Oct 8th, 2019

PC game clip sharing platform Medal.tv adds mobile games, acquiring Megacool

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1 Unity continues M&A drive acquiring liveops outfit ChilliConnect MORE TOOLS Oct 3rd, 2019

Unity continues M&A drive acquiring liveops outfit ChilliConnect

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CVC buys minority stake in mobile game monetisation outfit IronSource for $400 million BIG DEAL Oct 3rd, 2019

CVC buys minority stake in mobile game monetisation outfit IronSource for $400 million

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Why mobile games need a new taxonomy WHAT’S YOUR MARKET? Oct 17th, 2019

Why mobile games need a new taxonomy

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Tencent tops September mobile publisher grossing chart CHARTS Oct 11th, 2019

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1 Nintendo Switch sales pass 10m in Europe BIG SELLER Oct 10th, 2019

Nintendo Switch sales pass 10m in Europe

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Mario Kart Tour does 90 million downloads but monetisation lags FAST START Oct 3rd, 2019

Mario Kart Tour does 90 million downloads but monetisation lags

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1 as Call of Duty: Mobile hits 3 million downloads on launch day OUT WITH A BANG Oct 2nd, 2019

Call of Duty: Mobile hits 3 million downloads on launch day

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as Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost generates $106 million in first year LEVELLING UP Oct 1st, 2019

Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost generates $106 million in first year

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as Pokemon Masters generates $33 million from first month GOOD START Oct 1st, 2019

Pokemon Masters generates $33 million from first month

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Mario Kart Tour races to 20 million downloads in 24 hours POLE POSITION Sep 27th, 2019

Mario Kart Tour races to 20 million downloads in 24 hours

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6 The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019 BEST OF 2019 Oct 1st, 2019

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019

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Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 INDIE SHOWCASE Jan 14th, 2019

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Disney shuts down Star Wars: Rivals, Honor of Kings takes $3.5bn in revenue and Tencent unveil Lego Cube HOT FIVE Sep 24th, 2018

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018

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AR, VR and the Pixel 2: Google's Live Launch GOOGLE EVENT Oct 5th, 2017

AR, VR and the Pixel 2: Google's Live Launch

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Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2017

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as Tencent acquires Malmo developer Sharkmob News May 22nd, 2019

Tencent acquires Malmo developer Sharkmob

“We view the future of online gaming the same way and Tencent being a leading internet and games platform gives Sharkmob the reach and resources to be a part of that future"

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Brawl Stars dev Supercell invests $3.8m in Malmo start-up Luau Games

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