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Hot Five: Epic hands out MegaGrants, Konami partners with Shenqu on Castlevania, and how does Battle Legion monetise? Hot Five Aug 3rd, 2020

Hot Five: Epic hands out MegaGrants, Konami partners with Shenqu on Castlevania, and how does Battle Legion monetise?

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Indie Mavens: Weighing up the benefits between digital and physical events for indies Mobile Mavens Jul 6th, 2020

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

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Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts Data & Research Dec 4th, 2019

Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell News Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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

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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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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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Hall of Fame: King CEO Riccardo Zacconi on building a mobile gaming powerhouse

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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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Fallout Shelter's success, E3's future, and #PCGSanFran speakers in the spotlight Week that was Jun 20th, 2015

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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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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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

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

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

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Hot Five: Epic hands out MegaGrants, Konami partners with Shenqu on Castlevania, and how does Battle Legion monetise? Hot Five Aug 3rd, 2020

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Mobile Game of the Week: Brawlhalla

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Big Indie Pitch developers take centre stage at the inaugural Pocket Gamer LaunchPad

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How does Pokemon Café Mix monetise? IN-APP PURCHASE INSPECTOR Jul 30th, 2020

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Update: All 128 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jul 27th, 2020

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Rogue Games shakes up its leadership, Luna Labs makes six hires, and Tom Hall joins Resolution Games TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Jun 26th, 2020

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55 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Hay Day Pop and Tom Clancy's Elite Squad

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Get excited for PG Connects Seattle 2020 with these six videos from last year's conference SIX OF THE BEST Mar 9th, 2020

Get excited for PG Connects Seattle 2020 with these six videos from last year's conference

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Mobile Game of the Week: Brawlhalla

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Updated: 22 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Dec 19th, 2019

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as Big Indie Pitch developers take centre stage at the inaugural Pocket Gamer LaunchPad BIG INDIE LAUNCHPAD Aug 7th, 2020

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15 Flashback Friday: I've played Clash of Clans more than any other game, but now it's time to log off CHURNED Mar 4th, 2016

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as POC in Mobile: Why Amanotes publishing manager Micke Joseph Moisa believes creative freedom is key to better diversity #BLACKLIVESMATTER Aug 7th, 2020

POC in Mobile: Why Amanotes publishing manager Micke Joseph Moisa believes creative freedom is key to better diversity

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Making Of: Glu SVP Mike Olsen on tackling the RPG genre with Disney Sorcerer's Arena INTO THE UNKNOWN Aug 6th, 2020

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Teatime Games CEO Thor Fridriksson candidly reflects on the failures of QuizUp and Plain Vanilla QUESTION TIME Aug 5th, 2020

Teatime Games CEO Thor Fridriksson candidly reflects on the failures of QuizUp and Plain Vanilla

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as Mass delisting by Apple China: Over 26,000 games without ISBN removed CHINA GAME REMOVALS Aug 5th, 2020

Mass delisting by Apple China: Over 26,000 games without ISBN removed

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Indie Spotlight: How Moving Pieces pitched Dodo Peak for Apple Arcade BRINGING BACK THE DODO Aug 5th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: How Moving Pieces pitched Dodo Peak for Apple Arcade

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GamesConsulting.net’s Nick Murray on game economy design and optimisation MASTERCLASSES Aug 4th, 2020

GamesConsulting.net’s Nick Murray on game economy design and optimisation

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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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2 Genius: Why Clash Royale is for losers WIDE & DEEP Apr 14th, 2016

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Master the Meta: How Electronic Arts and Roblox are shattering records MASTER THE META Aug 3rd, 2020

Master the Meta: How Electronic Arts and Roblox are shattering records

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Making Of: Glu SVP Mike Olsen on tackling the RPG genre with Disney Sorcerer's Arena INTO THE UNKNOWN Aug 6th, 2020

Making Of: Glu SVP Mike Olsen on tackling the RPG genre with Disney Sorcerer's Arena

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The evolution of the Tapjoy offerwall on iOS TAPJOY OFFERWALL Aug 3rd, 2020

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20 Why are people still playing Coin Master? KEEP SPINNING Mar 31st, 2020

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Teatime Games CEO Thor Fridriksson candidly reflects on the failures of QuizUp and Plain Vanilla QUESTION TIME Aug 5th, 2020

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Digital sales made up 55.6 per cent of Nintendo's software revenue in Q1 FY21

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Sega president Kenji Matsubara resigns, Improbable welcomes new head of publishing, and more Ubisoft exits TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Aug 7th, 2020

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as Exclusive: Pokemon Café Mix generates 2.9 million downloads in first month, tops $1 million revenue YOU LARVITAR TO SEE IT Aug 7th, 2020

Exclusive: Pokemon Café Mix generates 2.9 million downloads in first month, tops $1 million revenue

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Ukie unveils 15 finalists for its UK Game of the Show award

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as Nexon has its best Q2 to date as it generates $610.4 million FINANCIALS Aug 7th, 2020

Nexon has its best Q2 to date as it generates $610.4 million

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Apple claims that cloud gaming apps like Project xCloud violate its policies ACCESS DENIED Aug 7th, 2020

Apple claims that cloud gaming apps like Project xCloud violate its policies

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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell READ 5 NOW Nov 4th, 2019

Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell

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Zynga buys hypercasual outfit Rollic for $168 million FAST MOVER Aug 5th, 2020

Zynga buys hypercasual outfit Rollic for $168 million

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Update: Trump insists the US government should have a slice of Microsoft's TikTok deal

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Mobile games revenue hit $19.3 billion in Q2 2020 27% INCREASE YOY Aug 3rd, 2020

Mobile games revenue hit $19.3 billion in Q2 2020

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Grand Cru Games and Roofdog Games join N3twork's NSP after successful testing period A SUCCESS Aug 4th, 2020

Grand Cru Games and Roofdog Games join N3twork's NSP after successful testing period

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1 Introducing PocketGamer.biz MasterClasses: a series of deep-dive workshops exploring all things games design EVENT Jul 23rd, 2020

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User acquisition for beginners: A checklist

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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Epic Games secures $1.78 billion in new funding round

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Mobile games revenue grew by $135 million across Malaysia and Singapore

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Mobile games revenue hit $19.3 billion in Q2 2020 27% INCREASE YOY Aug 3rd, 2020

Mobile games revenue hit $19.3 billion in Q2 2020

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SuperData: XR will generate $6.9bn in 2020 MONEY MONEY MONEY Jul 29th, 2020

SuperData: XR will generate $6.9bn in 2020

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Shooters are the sixth biggest mobile genre in the US, finds GameRefinery report HANDS UP! Jul 23rd, 2020

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The UK games industry is showing resilience against the coronavirus BOUNCING BACK Jul 22nd, 2020

The UK games industry is showing resilience against the coronavirus

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The ESA reports that two-thirds of the US population plays games PLAY A GAME Jul 17th, 2020

The ESA reports that two-thirds of the US population plays games

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Supercell, Supercell, and Supercell: The most read news stories of 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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AR, VR and the Pixel 2: Google's Live Launch GOOGLE EVENT Oct 5th, 2017

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Plants vs. Zombies 3 rises from the dead in new soft launch trailer News Feb 28th, 2020

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How has the market responded to the changing genres of Plants vs. Zombies and Best Fiends?

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How PopCap entered the collectible card game genre with Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes Interview Oct 27th, 2016

How PopCap entered the collectible card game genre with Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes

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How does PopCap's CCG debut Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes monetise? The IAP Inspector Oct 21st, 2016

How does PopCap's CCG debut Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes monetise?

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