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Hot Five: Axie Infinity's utility currency value hits $0.004, Apex Legends is the most downloaded iOS game, and former King team raises $3mil for Bitcoin gaming Hot Five May 23rd, 2022

Hot Five: Axie Infinity's utility currency value hits $0.004, Apex Legends is the most downloaded iOS game, and former King team raises $3mil for Bitcoin gaming

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Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – May 6 2022 Feature May 6th, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – May 6 2022

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What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions? Data & Research May 6th, 2022

What is driving the insatiable demand for mergers and acquisitions?

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Updated: what crucial lessons can Microsoft and Sony take from mobile for in-game ads? Mobile Mavens Apr 29th, 2022

Updated: what crucial lessons can Microsoft and Sony take from mobile for in-game ads?

  • Monetisation
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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Mar 24th, 2022

Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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How Rocket League Sideswipe hit the back of the net Interview Dec 21st, 2021

How Rocket League Sideswipe hit the back of the net

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PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge News Oct 18th, 2021

PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge

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PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook Comment & Opinion Sep 23rd, 2021

PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook

  • Advertising
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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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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 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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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

Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14

  • F2P
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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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1 Hot Five: Tilting Point bullish on blockchain, Warcraft Arclight Rumble, and Zynga’s Bernard Kim to join Match Group Hot Five May 9th, 2022

Hot Five: Tilting Point bullish on blockchain, Warcraft Arclight Rumble, and Zynga’s Bernard Kim to join Match Group

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1 Hot Five: Supercell's 45% revenue increase, Garena Free Fire banned in India, and FIFA Mobile pulled from Vietnamese app stores Hot Five Feb 21st, 2022

Hot Five: Supercell's 45% revenue increase, Garena Free Fire banned in India, and FIFA Mobile pulled from Vietnamese app stores

  • Hot Five
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  • FIFA
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Hot Five: Axie Infinity's utility currency value hits $0.004, Apex Legends is the most downloaded iOS game, and former King team raises $3mil for Bitcoin gaming Hot Five May 23rd, 2022

Hot Five: Axie Infinity's utility currency value hits $0.004, Apex Legends is the most downloaded iOS game, and former King team raises $3mil for Bitcoin gaming

  • Investment
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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Mar 24th, 2022

Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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Hot Five: historic first as mobile game revenue decreases, Riot sues Moonton (again), and Facebook and Instagram intergration confirmed Hot Five May 16th, 2022

Hot Five: historic first as mobile game revenue decreases, Riot sues Moonton (again), and Facebook and Instagram intergration confirmed

  • Facebook
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Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – May 6 2022 Feature May 6th, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – May 6 2022

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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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27 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales UNICORN CLUB May 24th, 2022

27 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales

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10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time MONOPOLY MONEY May 23rd, 2022

10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time

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271 Updated May 23: 62 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Snap to Power Rangers: Morphin Legends SOFT LAUNCH May 23rd, 2022

Updated May 23: 62 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Snap to Power Rangers: Morphin Legends

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Apex Legends Mobile WHAT WE'RE PLAYING May 20th, 2022

Mobile Game of the Week: Apex Legends Mobile

Update: All 248 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY May 20th, 2022

Update: All 248 Apple Arcade games available now

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The mobile games industry glossary THE MOBILE GAMES GLOSSARY May 17th, 2022

The mobile games industry glossary

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Exclusive industry interviews from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2022 LIVE ON TV May 12th, 2022

Exclusive industry interviews from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2022

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Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – May 6 2022 UPSTREAM May 6th, 2022

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271 Updated May 23: 62 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Snap to Power Rangers: Morphin Legends SOFT LAUNCH May 23rd, 2022

Updated May 23: 62 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Snap to Power Rangers: Morphin Legends

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27 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales UNICORN CLUB May 24th, 2022

27 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Apex Legends Mobile WHAT WE'RE PLAYING May 20th, 2022

Mobile Game of the Week: Apex Legends Mobile

Update: All 248 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY May 20th, 2022

Update: All 248 Apple Arcade games available now

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10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time MONOPOLY MONEY May 23rd, 2022

10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time

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The mobile games industry glossary THE MOBILE GAMES GLOSSARY May 17th, 2022

The mobile games industry glossary

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Exclusive industry interviews from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2022 LIVE ON TV May 12th, 2022

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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week HIRING NOW Mar 24th, 2022

Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield: "My only resistance to blockchain gaming is tied up in speculation" ISLAND GO May 24th, 2022

Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield: "My only resistance to blockchain gaming is tied up in speculation"

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Can we create a more equitable mobile games industry? Niantic’s Karla Reyes may have the answer JOIN THE COVEN May 19th, 2022

Can we create a more equitable mobile games industry? Niantic’s Karla Reyes may have the answer

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How Playrix mastered appealing to their players' anchoring bias UA EYE May 18th, 2022

How Playrix mastered appealing to their players' anchoring bias

  • User Acquisition
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Three core ways to validate your game ideas VALIDATED May 17th, 2022

Three core ways to validate your game ideas

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Bringing Native American and Black stories to Apple Arcade's The Oregon Trail THE OREGON TRAIL May 17th, 2022

Bringing Native American and Black stories to Apple Arcade's The Oregon Trail

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1 For tech giants, all roads lead to mobile gaming EYES ON NETFLIX May 13th, 2022

For tech giants, all roads lead to mobile gaming

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How important is the jelly mechanic in your ad campaigns? UA EYE May 12th, 2022

How important is the jelly mechanic in your ad campaigns?

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Building an LGBTQ team requires "an environment where everyone feels comfortable being and expressing themselves" PROGRESSIVE PLAY May 11th, 2022

Building an LGBTQ team requires "an environment where everyone feels comfortable being and expressing themselves"

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Daniel Persson on Coffee Stain's new mobile-first studio, exploring old IP, and not looking at NFTs NOT JUST FOR KARL Feb 9th, 2022

Daniel Persson on Coffee Stain's new mobile-first studio, exploring old IP, and not looking at NFTs

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How Playrix mastered appealing to their players' anchoring bias UA EYE May 18th, 2022

How Playrix mastered appealing to their players' anchoring bias

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Can we create a more equitable mobile games industry? Niantic’s Karla Reyes may have the answer JOIN THE COVEN May 19th, 2022

Can we create a more equitable mobile games industry? Niantic’s Karla Reyes may have the answer

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Three core ways to validate your game ideas VALIDATED May 17th, 2022

Three core ways to validate your game ideas

  • Data
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Bringing Native American and Black stories to Apple Arcade's The Oregon Trail THE OREGON TRAIL May 17th, 2022

Bringing Native American and Black stories to Apple Arcade's The Oregon Trail

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1 For tech giants, all roads lead to mobile gaming EYES ON NETFLIX May 13th, 2022

For tech giants, all roads lead to mobile gaming

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How Beatstar survived 24 killed prototypes in five years SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM May 4th, 2022

How Beatstar survived 24 killed prototypes in five years

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Building an LGBTQ team requires "an environment where everyone feels comfortable being and expressing themselves" PROGRESSIVE PLAY May 11th, 2022

Building an LGBTQ team requires "an environment where everyone feels comfortable being and expressing themselves"

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Employees from Activision Blizzard's Raven Software forms the first gaming union UNDER A UNION May 24th, 2022

Employees from Activision Blizzard's Raven Software forms the first gaming union

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Zynga acquisition by Take-Two now completed WELCOME TO THE FAMILY May 23rd, 2022

Zynga acquisition by Take-Two now completed

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Ubisoft holders want €60+ per share for potential sale ACQUISITION INTEREST May 23rd, 2022

Ubisoft holders want €60+ per share for potential sale

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Kongregate unveils upcoming blockchain game Blood Vessels WEB-BASED TO WEB3 Apr 14th, 2022

Kongregate unveils upcoming blockchain game Blood Vessels

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Apex Legends Mobile is the most downloaded iPhone game in 60 countries APEX PREDATOR May 18th, 2022

Apex Legends Mobile is the most downloaded iPhone game in 60 countries

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Bluestacks launches Creator Studio and Creator Hub for modding mobile games MOBILE MODS Feb 23rd, 2022

Bluestacks launches Creator Studio and Creator Hub for modding mobile games

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TikTok wants to release in-app games this year

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Deliver It 3D, Angry Birds Classic, and Football Manager are the fastest-growing iOS games in 2022 PINPOINTING POPULARITY May 20th, 2022

Deliver It 3D, Angry Birds Classic, and Football Manager are the fastest-growing iOS games in 2022

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Andreessen Horowitz launches $600 million games VC fund 600 MILLION REASONS May 19th, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz launches $600 million games VC fund

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Axie Infinity’s utility currency devalued to $0.004 CRYPTO CURVES May 16th, 2022

Axie Infinity’s utility currency devalued to $0.004

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What you need to do before monetising your hypercasual game DO THIS FIRST Apr 28th, 2022

What you need to do before monetising your hypercasual game

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Three in-game monetisation myths that need to be left in 2021 MONETISATION MYTHS BUSTED Apr 14th, 2022

Three in-game monetisation myths that need to be left in 2021

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How to prevent ‘purposefully neglectful’ UI/UX dark patterns in F2P mobile games DARK TIMES Apr 13th, 2022

How to prevent ‘purposefully neglectful’ UI/UX dark patterns in F2P mobile games

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Financing LTV in mobile gaming FUND GROWTH TO SCALE Mar 31st, 2022

Financing LTV in mobile gaming

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Pollen VC launches the definitive guide to selecting a UA financing partner UA OK Jan 14th, 2022

Pollen VC launches the definitive guide to selecting a UA financing partner

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1 How in-game ads have taken APPS to the next level IN-GAME INSIGHT Nov 29th, 2021

How in-game ads have taken APPS to the next level

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How much are your players really worth? RESIDUAL VALUE CALCULATOR Sep 8th, 2021

How much are your players really worth?

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What is CFO Resources? MONEY TALK Jun 1st, 2021

What is CFO Resources?

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Paul Farley’s Firestoke raises $2.2 million FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE May 24th, 2022

Paul Farley’s Firestoke raises $2.2 million

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Zynga acquisition by Take-Two now completed WELCOME TO THE FAMILY May 23rd, 2022

Zynga acquisition by Take-Two now completed

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Saudi Arabia’s PIF acquires 5% stake in Nintendo MAMMA MIA May 18th, 2022

Saudi Arabia’s PIF acquires 5% stake in Nintendo

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Flexion to publish FunPlus’ King of Avalon on alternative app stores ALTERNATIVE APP STORE AGREEMENT May 18th, 2022

Flexion to publish FunPlus’ King of Avalon on alternative app stores

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Dead by Daylight developer acquires Midwinter Entertainment ACQUISITION May 17th, 2022

Dead by Daylight developer acquires Midwinter Entertainment

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Curve Games acquires Hue developer Fiddlesticks Games IP INTEGRATION May 16th, 2022

Curve Games acquires Hue developer Fiddlesticks Games

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exmox acquires Testerheld to develop new portfolio features and content GROWING IN GERMANY May 13th, 2022

exmox acquires Testerheld to develop new portfolio features and content

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Media and Games Invest acquires AxesInMotion in entirety for $58 million ACQUIRING AXESINMOTION Apr 29th, 2022

Media and Games Invest acquires AxesInMotion in entirety for $58 million

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Pangle and Newzoo’s hypercasual report explores the eastern and western market divide HYPERCASUAL HEIGHTS May 19th, 2022

Pangle and Newzoo’s hypercasual report explores the eastern and western market divide

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57% of PUBG Mobile player spend comes from China MEETING MILESTONES May 17th, 2022

57% of PUBG Mobile player spend comes from China

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Chinese mobile games revenue surpassed $9 billion during Q1 2022 CHINA'S CLIMB May 17th, 2022

Chinese mobile games revenue surpassed $9 billion during Q1 2022

  • China
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Apple made more games revenue than Google in 2020 and 2021, Newzoo finds ROLLING IN REVENUE May 13th, 2022

Apple made more games revenue than Google in 2020 and 2021, Newzoo finds

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  • Clash Royale
  • Honor of Kings
  • tencent
Roblox sees 54.1 million DAUs, despite sharp declines in engagement ROCKY ROBLOX REPORT May 12th, 2022

Roblox sees 54.1 million DAUs, despite sharp declines in engagement

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Despite record Q1 2022 for declared M&A, value of closed deals decreased GIMME THAT May 12th, 2022

Despite record Q1 2022 for declared M&A, value of closed deals decreased

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Mobile game revenue decreased for first time ever in Q1 2022 REVENUE REPORT May 12th, 2022

Mobile game revenue decreased for first time ever in Q1 2022

  • Downloads
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How to survive a user acquisition nightmare APP-OCALYPSE NOW? May 10th, 2022

How to survive a user acquisition nightmare

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PocketGamer.biz's 22 most anticipated mobile games of 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED 2022 Dec 30th, 2021

PocketGamer.biz's 22 most anticipated mobile games of 2022

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  • Plants vs Zombies
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PocketGamer.biz’s top five biggest features of 2021 FEATUREFUL Dec 29th, 2021

PocketGamer.biz’s top five biggest features of 2021

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  • Clash Royale
  • 2021 in Review
PocketGamer.biz’s top five biggest news stories of 2021 A TIME OF REFLECTION Dec 28th, 2021

PocketGamer.biz’s top five biggest news stories of 2021

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  • World of Warcraft
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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021 BEST OF 2021 Sep 6th, 2021

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