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Devs sue Apple over App Store fees, Stillfront acquires Kixeye, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100k installs Hot Five Jun 10th, 2019

Devs sue Apple over App Store fees, Stillfront acquires Kixeye, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100k installs

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Does Apple and Google's 70/30 revenue share model work for indies? Mobile Mavens May 31st, 2019

Does Apple and Google's 70/30 revenue share model work for indies?

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as Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show? The Charticle May 20th, 2019

Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show?

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How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? The IAP Inspector Mar 25th, 2019

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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

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The internet reacts to the Nintendo Switch reveal

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10 commandments of free-to-play, Mobile Mavens talk Pixel and Daydream View VR, and publishers are already buying up App Store Search Ads Regulars Oct 17th, 2016

10 commandments of free-to-play, Mobile Mavens talk Pixel and Daydream View VR, and publishers are already buying up App Store Search Ads

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All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight Feature Jun 16th, 2016

All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight

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The Promiscuous Gamer enters a Marvel Avengers Alliance (2) and meets his Dream Girlfriend

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

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Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG Interview Aug 25th, 2015

Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG

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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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Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm

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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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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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Devs sue Apple over App Store fees, Stillfront acquires Kixeye, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100k installs Hot Five Jun 10th, 2019

Devs sue Apple over App Store fees, Stillfront acquires Kixeye, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100k installs

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Stateside: Nintendo doesn't need to go mobile, mobile needs to go Nintendo

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

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Does Apple and Google's 70/30 revenue share model work for indies? Mobile Mavens May 31st, 2019

Does Apple and Google's 70/30 revenue share model work for indies?

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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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E3 2019: All the mobile game news in one place E3 MOBILE Jun 14th, 2019

E3 2019: All the mobile game news in one place

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as E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct NINTENDO E3 ROUNDUP Jun 11th, 2019

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as Region Focus: Finding opportunities in Hong Kong's small games industry REGION FOCUS Jun 5th, 2019

Region Focus: Finding opportunities in Hong Kong's small games industry

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E3 2019: All the mobile game news in one place E3 MOBILE Jun 14th, 2019

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as E3 2019: The key Switch announcements and all the games from Nintendo Direct NINTENDO E3 ROUNDUP Jun 11th, 2019

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as Region Focus: How China’s big game freeze has made local developers more internationally minded REGION FOCUS Jun 13th, 2019

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20 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Apr 3rd, 2019

20 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion

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E3 2019: Mobile gets a fair shake as the lines between platforms blur E3 2019 Jun 14th, 2019

E3 2019: Mobile gets a fair shake as the lines between platforms blur

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as E3 2019: After mobile's no-show for Nintendo, is it really all-in on the platform? HALF MEASURES Jun 14th, 2019

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Nine years on: Social casino specialist KamaGames on the evolution of Pokerist

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The universal guide to retention RETENTION GUIDE Jun 12th, 2019

The universal guide to retention

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Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy on making fun over profit INDIE SPOTLIGHT Jun 12th, 2019

Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy on making fun over profit

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Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology JOBS IN GAMES Jun 10th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology

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as PGC Hong Kong: Boomzap creative director Chris Natsuume on hyper-casual concerns and player burnout SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Jun 7th, 2019

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3 Don’t let fraudsters dictate your user acquisition strategy AD FRAUD Jun 7th, 2019

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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

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The universal guide to retention RETENTION GUIDE Jun 12th, 2019

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Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy on making fun over profit

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E3 2019: Mobile gets a fair shake as the lines between platforms blur E3 2019 Jun 14th, 2019

E3 2019: Mobile gets a fair shake as the lines between platforms blur

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Nine years on: Social casino specialist KamaGames on the evolution of Pokerist LIVE AND KICKING Jun 13th, 2019

Nine years on: Social casino specialist KamaGames on the evolution of Pokerist

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as E3 2019: After mobile's no-show for Nintendo, is it really all-in on the platform? HALF MEASURES Jun 14th, 2019

E3 2019: After mobile's no-show for Nintendo, is it really all-in on the platform?

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Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology JOBS IN GAMES Jun 10th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology

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3 The secret of Scopely’s success? How we think about IP, says CEO GOING BOLDLY Jun 3rd, 2019

The secret of Scopely’s success? How we think about IP, says CEO

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as The bumper Very Big Indie Pitch heads to Hong Kong BIG INDIE PITCH Jun 14th, 2019

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E3 2019: EA held an event about tackling harassment and bullying in games COMMUNICATION Jun 14th, 2019

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as E3 2019: Breath of the Wild sequel influenced by Red Dead Redemption 2 THE LEGEND OF ARTHUR MORGAN Jun 14th, 2019

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as E3 2019: Nintendo looking into game streaming technologies LET’S A STREAM Jun 14th, 2019

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as PUBG Mobile racks up 50 million daily active users outside of China STATS ROYALE Jun 14th, 2019

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as Netmarble gives MMORPG Lineage 2 Revolution the battle royale treatment LINEAGE ROYALE Jun 14th, 2019

Netmarble gives MMORPG Lineage 2 Revolution the battle royale treatment

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as E3 2019: Fallout Shelter coming to Tesla cars; sequel heading for China FALLOUT EXPANDS Jun 14th, 2019

E3 2019: Fallout Shelter coming to Tesla cars; sequel heading for China

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as E3 2019: Nintendo's Doug Bowser speaks out on crunch culture and game delays ANIMAL CRUNCHING Jun 12th, 2019

E3 2019: Nintendo's Doug Bowser speaks out on crunch culture and game delays

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Update: Stillfront Group to raise $53 million from directed share issue; seeks up to $106m from bond loan FUND RAISE Jun 14th, 2019

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Devs sue Apple over App Store fees, Stillfront acquires Kixeye, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100k installs HOT FIVE Jun 10th, 2019

Devs sue Apple over App Store fees, Stillfront acquires Kixeye, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100k installs

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Epic Games acquires social network Houseparty EPIC X HOUSEPARTY Jun 13th, 2019

Epic Games acquires social network Houseparty

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AppOnboard acquires Buildbox game engine to power codeless development NO CODE MOVEMENT Jun 13th, 2019

AppOnboard acquires Buildbox game engine to power codeless development

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E3 2019: Ubisoft's Guillemot on why the firm is early on Google's Stadia games streaming platform HEAD IN THE CLOUDS Jun 10th, 2019

E3 2019: Ubisoft's Guillemot on why the firm is early on Google's Stadia games streaming platform

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: NetEase resurgent with four top 10 grossers on the Chinese App Store WEEKLY CHARTS Jun 10th, 2019

Weekly global mobile games charts: NetEase resurgent with four top 10 grossers on the Chinese App Store

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AppOnboard acquires Buildbox game engine to power codeless development

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as Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100,000 installs from first month in beta WIZARDS UNITE Jun 5th, 2019

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Color Switch becomes an eSport through partnership with Skillz News Jun 22nd, 2017

Color Switch becomes an eSport through partnership with Skillz

Bearing down on 200 million downloads

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as Color Switch surpasses 150 million downloads in 15 months News Apr 4th, 2017

Color Switch surpasses 150 million downloads in 15 months

Still going strong with 20 million downloads in last three months

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1 How Fortafy Games boosted Color Switch's ad revenue by 35% Interview Dec 14th, 2016

How Fortafy Games boosted Color Switch's ad revenue by 35%

Co-founder Zeb Jaffer on monetising the viral hit

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How web portal Poki is helping Color Switch reach 150 million downloads Interview May 17th, 2016

How web portal Poki is helping Color Switch reach 150 million downloads

And how it can help other developers to reach a wider audience

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How codeless tool Buildbox is helping new developers enter the App Store Top 100 charts Interview May 16th, 2016

How codeless tool Buildbox is helping new developers enter the App Store Top 100 charts

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How Color Switch found financial success with rewarded video ads Interview Apr 4th, 2016

How Color Switch found financial success with rewarded video ads

Zeb Jaffer offers his thoughts

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How solo-developed Color Switch topped the App Store using 'codeless' dev tool Buildbox Interview Feb 9th, 2016

How solo-developed Color Switch topped the App Store using 'codeless' dev tool Buildbox

Color Switch's David Reichelt and Buildbox founder Trey Smith tell all

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