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as Hot Five: September 12th. The five stories you need to know before you start your working week Hot Five Sep 12th, 2022

Hot Five: September 12th. The five stories you need to know before you start your working week

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Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022 Feature Aug 15th, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022

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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

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What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions?

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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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How Rocket League Sideswipe hit the back of the net

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

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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022 Feature Aug 15th, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022

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How does Coin Master monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 7th, 2018

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as Hot Five: September 12th. The five stories you need to know before you start your working week Hot Five Sep 12th, 2022

Hot Five: September 12th. The five stories you need to know before you start your working week

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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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as How localised experiences keeps Free Fire alive four years on Interview Dec 15th, 2021

How localised experiences keeps Free Fire alive four years on

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How much do Unity and ironSource need each other? Mobile Mavens Jul 14th, 2022

How much do Unity and ironSource need each other?

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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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The mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales [UPDATE]

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE]

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Abigail Rindo: Every game is a different problem to solve narratively and creatively

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The latest and most interesting mobile games on the blockchain. [UPDATE] BLOCKCHAIN MOBILE GAMES Sep 13th, 2022

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10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time

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How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io ROGUELITE Sep 11th, 2022

How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io

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All 262 Apple Arcade games available now [UPDATE]

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE]

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How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io

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Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time

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Mobile Game of the Week: Teacup

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TapNation's Florian Jauffrineau on hypercasual lessons HYPERCASUAL LESSONS Sep 27th, 2022

TapNation's Florian Jauffrineau on hypercasual lessons

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"There is enormous room for the industry to grow in a less saturated market": Joseph Azzam on the Middle East market MENA SPOTLIGHT Sep 24th, 2022

"There is enormous room for the industry to grow in a less saturated market": Joseph Azzam on the Middle East market

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“Security is a challenging skillset, and scarce”: Steeve Huin of Denuvo talks mobile and metaverse hacking SECURITY DETAIL Sep 23rd, 2022

“Security is a challenging skillset, and scarce”: Steeve Huin of Denuvo talks mobile and metaverse hacking

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Understanding hybrid-casual’s gentle revolution GUEST POST Sep 23rd, 2022

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Mobile game monetisation: the third way GUEST POST Sep 21st, 2022

Mobile game monetisation: the third way

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Luis de la Camara: “ I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now the industry is primarily made up of a handful of big companies.” INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Luis de la Camara: “ I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now the industry is primarily made up of a handful of big companies.”

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Jochen Gary: "Playing seamlessly across mobile, desktop, and partly console will be the new normal" INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Jochen Gary: "Playing seamlessly across mobile, desktop, and partly console will be the new normal"

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Dudu Dahan: "Creating a successful game without financial backing is nowadays almost impossible" INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Dudu Dahan: "Creating a successful game without financial backing is nowadays almost impossible"

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InnoGames publishes salary bands for 80% of employees SALARY TRANSPARENCY Jul 19th, 2022

InnoGames publishes salary bands for 80% of employees

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Dudu Dahan: "Creating a successful game without financial backing is nowadays almost impossible" INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

Dudu Dahan: "Creating a successful game without financial backing is nowadays almost impossible"

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Choosing the right online tech for your game CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON Aug 15th, 2022

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"There is enormous room for the industry to grow in a less saturated market": Joseph Azzam on the Middle East market MENA SPOTLIGHT Sep 24th, 2022

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Mobile game monetisation: the third way GUEST POST Sep 21st, 2022

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Abigail Rindo: Every game is a different problem to solve narratively and creatively

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Mighty Kingdom announces cost reduction plans including staff layoffs

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Helsinki Highlights: Creating balanced gameplay through inclusivity

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iPhone recorded more ad-related fraud than Android in Q2 AD FRAUD Sep 28th, 2022

iPhone recorded more ad-related fraud than Android in Q2

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InnoGames publishes salary bands for 80% of employees SALARY TRANSPARENCY Jul 19th, 2022

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Apple enables NFT sales, with a 30% tariff catch

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as Saudi Arabia launches gaming and esports strategy THE GROWTH OF MENA GAMING Sep 23rd, 2022

Saudi Arabia launches gaming and esports strategy

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Carolina Herrera Dress sells for $5000 on Roblox METAVERSE FASHION Sep 23rd, 2022

Carolina Herrera Dress sells for $5000 on Roblox

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Newzoo shines spotlight on female gamers

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How to hire a CFO for your mobile games studio SUPERSTAR CFOs Aug 16th, 2022

How to hire a CFO for your mobile games studio

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How to value a mobile games studio MOBILE PRICE INDEX Aug 9th, 2022

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What you need to do before monetising your hypercasual game DO THIS FIRST Apr 28th, 2022

What you need to do before monetising your hypercasual game

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Three in-game monetisation myths that need to be left in 2021 MONETISATION MYTHS BUSTED Apr 14th, 2022

Three in-game monetisation myths that need to be left in 2021

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How to prevent ‘purposefully neglectful’ UI/UX dark patterns in F2P mobile games DARK TIMES Apr 13th, 2022

How to prevent ‘purposefully neglectful’ UI/UX dark patterns in F2P mobile games

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Financing LTV in mobile gaming FUND GROWTH TO SCALE Mar 31st, 2022

Financing LTV in mobile gaming

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Pollen VC launches the definitive guide to selecting a UA financing partner UA OK Jan 14th, 2022

Pollen VC launches the definitive guide to selecting a UA financing partner

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How in-game ads have taken APPS to the next level IN-GAME INSIGHT Nov 29th, 2021

How in-game ads have taken APPS to the next level

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Theorycraft Games raises $50 million in funding INVESTMENTS Sep 22nd, 2022

Theorycraft Games raises $50 million in funding

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Keywords Studios announces conditional acquisition of Smoking Gun AIMING TO ACQUIRE Sep 21st, 2022

Keywords Studios announces conditional acquisition of Smoking Gun

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Voodoo acquires Tarboosh Games after partnering on past projects ACQUISITION ACHIEVED Sep 21st, 2022

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Successful $1.5 million funding round for Sceneri FUNDING ROUND Sep 21st, 2022

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Cosmo Media Labs launches with investment from The Sandbox INVESTMENT Sep 19th, 2022

Cosmo Media Labs launches with investment from The Sandbox

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NetEase and Shueisha Games partner up on unVEIL the world UNVEILING A NEW PARTNERSHIP Sep 16th, 2022

NetEase and Shueisha Games partner up on unVEIL the world

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Assemble Entertainment will distribute for Mixtvision Games NEW PARTNERSHIP Sep 16th, 2022

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Animoca Brands begins acquisition proceedings of WePlay Media RACING TO SUCCESS Sep 16th, 2022

Animoca Brands begins acquisition proceedings of WePlay Media

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50% of Gen Z and Gen Alpha make in-game purchases NEWZOO REPORT Sep 28th, 2022

50% of Gen Z and Gen Alpha make in-game purchases

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Subway Surfers and Candy Crush Saga still at the top of the game SOCIALPETA REPORT Sep 26th, 2022

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Genshin Impact surpasses $3.6 billion revenue ahead of second anniversary GENSHIN'S GROWING GIANT Sep 23rd, 2022

Genshin Impact surpasses $3.6 billion revenue ahead of second anniversary

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as How did Apex Legends top the charts in Japan? BIG IN JAPAN Sep 22nd, 2022

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GlobalData: Games industry to be worth $470 billion by 2030 MOBILE MOMENTUM Sep 22nd, 2022

GlobalData: Games industry to be worth $470 billion by 2030

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as Niko Partners: Games with metaverse elements will be most profitable short term ASCENSION IN ASIA Sep 22nd, 2022

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as Israeli gaming market worth $9 billion ISRAELI GAMING MARKET Sep 22nd, 2022

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Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – September 20 2022 FEATURE Sep 21st, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – September 20 2022

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2022 BEST OF 2022 Aug 23rd, 2022

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021 BEST OF 2021 Sep 6th, 2021

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The Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2021 finalists TOP TALENT Jul 8th, 2021

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020 BEST OF 2020 Sep 8th, 2020

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Nintendo NX reveal today News Oct 20th, 2016

Nintendo NX reveal today

First glimpse of Wii U successor imminent

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as Nintendo NX production estimated at up to 10 million units per year News Sep 23rd, 2016

Nintendo NX production estimated at up to 10 million units per year

Console giant prepares for planned Nintendo NX March 2017 release date

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as Pokemon CEO hints Nintendo NX will be home console and handheld hybrid News Sep 23rd, 2016

Pokemon CEO hints Nintendo NX will be home console and handheld hybrid

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