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Supercell's secret for growing Brawl Stars to a $1 billion success Interview Jun 9th, 2021

Supercell's secret for growing Brawl Stars to a $1 billion success

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Hot Five: Honor of Kings lawsuit, Jurassic World Alive generates $100 million and Take-Two takes home Nordeus Hot Five Jun 7th, 2021

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Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer joins Skillz, Rovio appoints new SVP future of gaming, and Gamestop CFO resigns Job News Feb 1st, 2021

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Indie Mavens: What trends and events will shape the mobile industry in 2021? Mobile Mavens Jan 20th, 2021

Indie Mavens: What trends and events will shape the mobile industry in 2021?

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

Pokemon Day: How are The Pokemon Company's recent mobile releases performing?

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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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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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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 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

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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

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Supercell's secret for growing Brawl Stars to a $1 billion success Interview Jun 9th, 2021

Supercell's secret for growing Brawl Stars to a $1 billion success

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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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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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Hot Five: Honor of Kings lawsuit, Jurassic World Alive generates $100 million and Take-Two takes home Nordeus Hot Five Jun 7th, 2021

Hot Five: Honor of Kings lawsuit, Jurassic World Alive generates $100 million and Take-Two takes home Nordeus

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

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Roblox's VP of engineering Julian Walshaw-Vaughan on diversity in games Interview May 14th, 2021

Roblox's VP of engineering Julian Walshaw-Vaughan on diversity in games

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as Battle of Balls meets Transformers in Chinese crossover CHINA IN YOUR HANDS Jun 11th, 2021

Battle of Balls meets Transformers in Chinese crossover

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Understanding in-game advertising ADINMO ACADEMY Jun 10th, 2021

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264 52 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Mighty Doom to Tomb Raider Reloaded and The Witcher: Monster Slayer SOFT LAUNCH Jun 7th, 2021

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How mobile game developers are using football sponsorship to reach new audiences THE GAME HAS CHANGED May 25th, 2021

How mobile game developers are using football sponsorship to reach new audiences

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Building a (new) company culture NEW WAYS May 10th, 2021

Building a (new) company culture

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Using player motivations for user acquisition EXPAND THE POOL May 6th, 2021

Using player motivations for user acquisition

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‘Smart growing’ – Ten Square Games’ secret sauce GROWTH SPURT May 5th, 2021

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as This Week In China: Second wave of game approvals goes through, and Tencent files the first 5G-related lawsuit in the country THIS WEEK IN CHINA Apr 3rd, 2020

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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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Understanding in-game advertising ADINMO ACADEMY Jun 10th, 2021

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Updated: 23 mobile games that have generated +$1 billion in lifetime sales BILLION DOLLAR CLUB May 5th, 2021

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as Battle of Balls meets Transformers in Chinese crossover CHINA IN YOUR HANDS Jun 11th, 2021

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Play Curious co-founder Jesse Himmelstein discusses Big Indie Pitch winner Crispr Crunch INDIE VIEW Jun 9th, 2021

Play Curious co-founder Jesse Himmelstein discusses Big Indie Pitch winner Crispr Crunch

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Supercell's secret for growing Brawl Stars to a $1 billion success LIVE AND KICKING Jun 9th, 2021

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Interview: AdInMo CEO Kristan Rivers IN-GAME INNOVATION Jun 7th, 2021

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iOS 14.5 is live: Are you ready? TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY Jun 4th, 2021

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Big Indie Pitch Finalist Forgotten Machine discusses ideas, inspirations and creating Arenas of Ryst INDIE VIEW Jun 3rd, 2021

Big Indie Pitch Finalist Forgotten Machine discusses ideas, inspirations and creating Arenas of Ryst

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"It shouldn’t take a tragedy to make meaningful change in this industry" POC IN MOBILE Jun 3rd, 2021

"It shouldn’t take a tragedy to make meaningful change in this industry"

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Taking social networks multiplayer: How Noice raised $5 million for its vision DISCORD+ Jun 2nd, 2021

Taking social networks multiplayer: How Noice raised $5 million for its vision

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From filing for bankruptcy to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game to the future of Mad About Pandas INDIE SPOTLIGHT Jun 2nd, 2021

From filing for bankruptcy to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game to the future of Mad About Pandas

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Supercell's secret for growing Brawl Stars to a $1 billion success LIVE AND KICKING Jun 9th, 2021

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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

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Play Curious co-founder Jesse Himmelstein discusses Big Indie Pitch winner Crispr Crunch INDIE VIEW Jun 9th, 2021

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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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Interview: AdInMo CEO Kristan Rivers IN-GAME INNOVATION Jun 7th, 2021

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Roblox's VP of engineering Julian Walshaw-Vaughan on diversity in games POC IN MOBILE May 14th, 2021

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iOS 14.5 is live: Are you ready? TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY Jun 4th, 2021

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Big Indie Pitch Finalist Forgotten Machine discusses ideas, inspirations and creating Arenas of Ryst INDIE VIEW Jun 3rd, 2021

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5G will power mobile games industry to $272 billion by 2030

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Soft launch to worldwide launch: Optimizing your creative for global success

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as Istanbul-based Hungri Games raises $1.1 million, opening new UK studio TURKEY THRIVING Jun 11th, 2021

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Update: Space Ape Games and Supercell collaborate for Boom Beach: Frontlines HERE COMES THE BOOM Jun 10th, 2021

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Phoenix Games takes over Knighthood publishing rights from King YOU HAVE MY SWORD Jun 9th, 2021

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as Sina Corp is looking at acquiring an 18% stake in Yoozoo Games $447 MILLION Jun 8th, 2021

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Honor of Kings tops global revenue for third consecutive month

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Finnish games industry grows by 9% to nearly $3 billion in revenue 3,600 NEW HIRES Jun 9th, 2021

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Undoing the duopoly in mobile game distribution Interview May 27th, 2021

Undoing the duopoly in mobile game distribution

GameBake's Michael Hudson makes the case

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"In 2050 there will be no app stores" News May 23rd, 2018

"In 2050 there will be no app stores"

Will be replaced by chat platforms

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  • Chat app games
1 The future of HTML5 as the next big gaming platform Comment & Opinion Apr 20th, 2017

The future of HTML5 as the next big gaming platform

WiMi5 CEO Raul Otaolea looks at what's in store for web games across devices

  • HTML5
  • Post-app store
as Rakuten and Blackstorm want to disrupt Japan's mobile industry with launch of HTML5 social game platform RGames Interview Apr 4th, 2017

Rakuten and Blackstorm want to disrupt Japan's mobile industry with launch of HTML5 social game platform RGames

Post-app store technology outfit teams up with Japanese ecommerce giant

  • Japan
  • HTML5
  • Post-app store
Are we heading for a post-app store future? Interview Mar 23rd, 2017

Are we heading for a post-app store future?

Blackstorm's Michael Carter and Ernestine Fu on the rise of the super apps

  • Mobile Messaging
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  • Instant Games
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Istanbul-based Hungri Games raises $1.1 million, opening new UK studio

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Unravel the secrets of Sega, Sulake, Samsung Next, Jagex and more at next month’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7

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Battle of Balls meets Transformers in Chinese crossover

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Understanding in-game advertising

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