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How Tactile Games made marketing and diversity core to Lily’s Garden’s $500 million success Interview May 8th, 2023

How Tactile Games made marketing and diversity core to Lily’s Garden’s $500 million success

Asbjoern Malte Soendergaard discusses their approach to researching new concepts, building a diverse team, and creating an empire from games made for women

Genre mashing and meta morphing: How Match 3 and casual games are evolving Feature Dec 5th, 2022

Genre mashing and meta morphing: How Match 3 and casual games are evolving

UXReviewer founder Om Tandon breaks down what makes Match 3 games so popular and how they may have even greater scaling potential

Making Call of Antia stand out from the crowd Interview Feb 22nd, 2022

Making Call of Antia stand out from the crowd

The Match 3 RPG genre is popular and well populated. FunPlus' Leon Zhou talks to PocketGamer.biz about differentiating yourself from the crowd

Why Small Giant followed up its $1 billion hit Empires & Puzzles with Puzzle Combat Interview Apr 8th, 2021

Why Small Giant followed up its $1 billion hit Empires & Puzzles with Puzzle Combat

CEO Jose Saarniniem explains

4 mobile game trends to look out for in 2021 Feature Jan 26th, 2021

4 mobile game trends to look out for in 2021

GameRefinery's Erno Kiiski weighs in on the year ahead

Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP Comment & Opinion Aug 14th, 2020

Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP

Zynga director of product Peter Rosetti on what it takes to bring Harry Potter to match-3

Why Ludia CEO Alex Thabet believes Disney Wonderful Worlds is different from other match-three puzzlers Interview Jul 30th, 2020

Why Ludia CEO Alex Thabet believes Disney Wonderful Worlds is different from other match-three puzzlers

"Ludia worked closely with Disney in order to bring players a one-of-a-kind gaming experience"

How Gummy Drop amassed 1.8 billion hours of gameplay in five years Interview Sep 12th, 2019

How Gummy Drop amassed 1.8 billion hours of gameplay in five years

"To date, the game offers players over 10,000 levels, 90 plus cities to travel to and over 1,000 monuments to rebuild"

The delicate balancing act behind midcore match-three Sega Heroes Interview Dec 11th, 2018

The delicate balancing act behind midcore match-three Sega Heroes

Finding core-casual sweetspot

Can Snowprint’s Legend of Solgard break King’s midcore curse? Interview Oct 10th, 2018

Can Snowprint’s Legend of Solgard break King’s midcore curse?

Studio CEO Alexander Ekvall discusses working with the Candy Crush maker as part of the latter’s new publishing initiative

Four years on: Jam City on the evolution of match-three hit Cookie Jam Interview Jul 9th, 2018

Four years on: Jam City on the evolution of match-three hit Cookie Jam

GM and VP of creative development Shane Nakamura discusses keeping the US publisher's flagship title Cookie Jam alive and successful.

Exploring the links between game genres and mobile monetisation part one: Examining match-3 games Comment & Opinion Nov 30th, 2017

Exploring the links between game genres and mobile monetisation part one: Examining match-3 games

Tappx's Ignasi Prat unpacks the hugely popular casual game archetype

The making of Gardenscapes spin-off Homescapes Interview Nov 23rd, 2017

The making of Gardenscapes spin-off Homescapes

We delve into the follow-up to the smash hit mobile game

An ideal match: The making of Star Wars: Puzzle Droids Interview Jun 22nd, 2017

An ideal match: The making of Star Wars: Puzzle Droids

Sean Coughlin shares development insights

Deconstructing Gardenscapes' big pivot to success Comment & Opinion May 24th, 2017

Deconstructing Gardenscapes' big pivot to success

Wooga's Adam Telfer analyses the game's history and reasons behind its current success

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