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Hot Five: King shows off Crash Bandicoot, Michael Raeford talks education, and Niantic soft-launches Catan Hot Five Jul 13th, 2020

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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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How does Forza Street 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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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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as East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal Regulars Sep 9th, 2019

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 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

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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

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

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Hot Five: King shows off Crash Bandicoot, Michael Raeford talks education, and Niantic soft-launches Catan Hot Five Jul 13th, 2020

Hot Five: King shows off Crash Bandicoot, Michael Raeford talks education, and Niantic soft-launches Catan

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53 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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Update: All 126 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jul 13th, 2020

Update: All 126 Apple Arcade games available now

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Wave Redux WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Jul 10th, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Wave Redux

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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

Mobile games jobs weekly: Rogue Games shakes up its leadership, Luna Labs makes six hires, and Tom Hall joins Resolution Games

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Square Enix and SockMonkey look to expand, while Tastypill ups recruitment TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Jun 19th, 2020

Mobile games jobs weekly: Square Enix and SockMonkey look to expand, while Tastypill ups recruitment

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Spotify ad boss joins Activision, Rovio's Jakob Longer promoted, Ubisoft RedLynx vacancies aplenty TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Jun 12th, 2020

Mobile games jobs weekly: Spotify ad boss joins Activision, Rovio's Jakob Longer promoted, Ubisoft RedLynx vacancies aplenty

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Opinion: Why a growing disquiet stalks the corridors of WWDC 2010 10 YEARS ON Jun 10th, 2020

Opinion: Why a growing disquiet stalks the corridors of WWDC 2010

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246 53 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 SOFT LAUNCH Jul 13th, 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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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Wave Redux WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Jul 10th, 2020

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

Updated: 22 mobile games that have generated more than $1 billion in lifetime sales

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9 How does Coin Master monetise? IAP INSPECTOR Feb 7th, 2018

How does Coin Master monetise?

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2 Update: PocketGamer.biz's ultimate remote working resource guide HOW TO ROCK REMOTE Jul 8th, 2020

Update: PocketGamer.biz's ultimate remote working resource guide

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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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Update: All 126 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jul 13th, 2020

Update: All 126 Apple Arcade games available now

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Remote Working: Why Gismart's level designer Aleksandra Turabova believes "practice is better than theory" JOBS IN GAMES Jul 14th, 2020

Remote Working: Why Gismart's level designer Aleksandra Turabova believes "practice is better than theory"

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Lessons from lockdown: Why gaming is the new frontier in advertising and how to leverage it LESSONS FROM LOCKDOWN Jul 13th, 2020

Lessons from lockdown: Why gaming is the new frontier in advertising and how to leverage it

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The Big Indie Interviews: From mobile to Switch, how Bugbomb Games created Gerrrms INDIE VIEW Jul 13th, 2020

The Big Indie Interviews: From mobile to Switch, how Bugbomb Games created Gerrrms

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POC in Mobile: FarBridge's Donald Harris on why you shouldn't wait or ask permission to get into games #BLACKLIVESMATTER Jul 10th, 2020

POC in Mobile: FarBridge's Donald Harris on why you shouldn't wait or ask permission to get into games

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Why are people still playing Brawl Stars? BRAWL ON AND ON Jul 9th, 2020

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Socialpoint finds stability during a global pandemic with Rewarded Surveys REWARDED SURVEYS Jul 9th, 2020

Socialpoint finds stability during a global pandemic with Rewarded Surveys

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Making Of: Agent Intercept's race to Apple Arcade FROM NEW ZEALAND WITH LOVE Jul 9th, 2020

Making Of: Agent Intercept's race to Apple Arcade

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Indie Spotlight: Francis Entereso on launching a game in the middle of a global pandemic ONEMAN TEAM Jul 8th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: Francis Entereso on launching a game in the middle of a global pandemic

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Why are people still playing Brawl Stars? BRAWL ON AND ON Jul 9th, 2020

Why are people still playing Brawl Stars?

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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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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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POC in Mobile: FarBridge's Donald Harris on why you shouldn't wait or ask permission to get into games #BLACKLIVESMATTER Jul 10th, 2020

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What Apple killing the IDFA means for mobile marketing IDFA IS DEAD Jul 3rd, 2020

What Apple killing the IDFA means for mobile marketing

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Remote Working: Tencent data scientist Jia Wang on running operations from her bathroom JOBS IN GAMES Jul 7th, 2020

Remote Working: Tencent data scientist Jia Wang on running operations from her bathroom

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Socialpoint finds stability during a global pandemic with Rewarded Surveys REWARDED SURVEYS Jul 9th, 2020

Socialpoint finds stability during a global pandemic with Rewarded Surveys

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Indie Spotlight: Francis Entereso on launching a game in the middle of a global pandemic ONEMAN TEAM Jul 8th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: Francis Entereso on launching a game in the middle of a global pandemic

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Azerion teams up with Atari to bring five classic games to browsers

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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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Traplight secures $9 million in funding as it launches Battle Legion worldwide

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Niantic soft launches next AR title Catan: World Explorers

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AppLovin strengthens its executive team with four new appointments

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Soft launch to worldwide launch: Optimizing your creative for global success KEEP TESTING Jan 14th, 2020

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Seeking a job in the games industry - part two: The interview process

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Financing your indie games development studio - part two: The killer pitch PITCH PERFECT Apr 10th, 2019

Financing your indie games development studio - part two: The killer pitch

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell FINDING FUNDING Mar 29th, 2019

The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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LEGO partners with Monument Valley developer Ustwo for LEGO Super Mario app BUILDING BLOCKS Jul 14th, 2020

LEGO partners with Monument Valley developer Ustwo for LEGO Super Mario app

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Animoca Brands acquires social games platform GAMEE NEW ACQUISITION Jul 13th, 2020

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Sperasoft partners with RuneScape developer Jagex NEW PARTNERSHIP Jul 10th, 2020

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Sony invests $250 million in Fortnite creator Epic Games SWEET INVESTMENT Jul 10th, 2020

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Traplight secures $9 million in funding as it launches Battle Legion worldwide MAKING MONEY Jul 9th, 2020

Traplight secures $9 million in funding as it launches Battle Legion worldwide

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Lab Cave teams up with Zinkia Entertainment for Pocoyo mobile games TEAM WORK Jul 7th, 2020

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Animoca Brands secures $4.1 million through strategic investors INVESTMENT Jul 6th, 2020

Animoca Brands secures $4.1 million through strategic investors

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Bethesda teams with Amazon Studios and Kilter Films on Fallout TV series ANOTHER APOCALYPSE Jul 3rd, 2020

Bethesda teams with Amazon Studios and Kilter Films on Fallout TV series

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as Sonic Dash has generated more revenue than the last five Sonic games combined RUN OUT OF STEAM? Jul 13th, 2020

Sonic Dash has generated more revenue than the last five Sonic games combined

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Mobile games consumer spending hit $19 billion in Q2 2020 BIG MONEY Jul 10th, 2020

Mobile games consumer spending hit $19 billion in Q2 2020

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37% of iPhone owners game daily while 46% of Blackberry owners have no games GAMES WHAT WON IT Jul 6th, 2020

37% of iPhone owners game daily while 46% of Blackberry owners have no games

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Four years on and Pokemon GO is still flying high

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as PUBG Mobile shoots through $3 billion in lifetime revenue JOIN THE FIGHT Jul 2nd, 2020

PUBG Mobile shoots through $3 billion in lifetime revenue

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Over half of gamers prefer spending on brands "with a purpose", finds Gameloft BRAND IT Jun 30th, 2020

Over half of gamers prefer spending on brands "with a purpose", finds Gameloft

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Analysis: Player motivations in Roblox, Fortnite and Candy Crush Saga

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as What happened to Dr. Mario World? BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW Jun 26th, 2020

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Supercell, Supercell, and Supercell: The most read news stories of 2019 MOST READ 2019 Dec 31st, 2019

Supercell, Supercell, and Supercell: The most read news stories of 2019

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019

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Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 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

Disney shuts down Star Wars: Rivals, Honor of Kings takes $3.5bn in revenue and Tencent unveil Lego Cube

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5 things we learned at Devcom and Gamescom 2018

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018

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AR, VR and the Pixel 2: Google's Live Launch GOOGLE EVENT Oct 5th, 2017

AR, VR and the Pixel 2: Google's Live Launch

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Women in Games CEO: Pay gap figures are depressingly unsurprising

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UK games companies reveal gender pay gap

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