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Hot Five: Coin Master's best monthly revenue ever, Brawl Stars grows amid coronavirus, and King offers unlimited lives across its games Hot Five Mar 30th, 2020

Hot Five: Coin Master's best monthly revenue ever, Brawl Stars grows amid coronavirus, and King offers unlimited lives across its games

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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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What do UK mobile game developers think of Brexit?

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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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Why we need more games without Nolan North's voice in them Stateside Aug 14th, 2015

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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

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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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Hot Five: Coin Master's best monthly revenue ever, Brawl Stars grows amid coronavirus, and King offers unlimited lives across its games Hot Five Mar 30th, 2020

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2 Hall of Fame: Miniclip CEO Robert Small on building one of the most recognisable names in gaming Hot Five Aug 7th, 2018

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Jobs in Games: Jam City's Sarah Wolf on transitioning from lawyer to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game director JOBS IN GAMES Mar 31st, 2020

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Live and Kicking: Seven years on, Dumb Ways to Die has turned from a marketing campaign to a standalone business 15 MILLION TIKTOK VIEWS Mar 27th, 2020

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Hypercasual surges with the top 3 most downloads mobile games from Voodoo HYPERCASUAL SURGE Apr 1st, 2020

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How Snap Games tackles exclusivity, monetisation, and competition from Apple Arcade A NEW CONTENDER Feb 7th, 2020

How Snap Games tackles exclusivity, monetisation, and competition from Apple Arcade

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Hypercasual titles accounted for 78 per cent of downloads in 2019

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World Health Organisation teams up with games industry for #PlayApartTogether campaign PLAY APART TOGETHER Mar 30th, 2020

World Health Organisation teams up with games industry for #PlayApartTogether campaign

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Miniclip, MAG Interactive, Kwalee and more to donate a portion of their advertising inventory to charities CHARITABLE ADS Mar 30th, 2020

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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Mobile apps will generate $171 billion through consumer spending in 2024

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