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

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Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts

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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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Why we need more games without Nolan North's voice in them

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

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

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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

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

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as Four years on and Pokemon GO is still flying high NOT A ONE TRICK PONYTA Jul 6th, 2020

Four years on and Pokemon GO is still flying high

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

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POC in Mobile: Why Jam City's Michael Raeford believes education is key to diversifying the games industry #BLACKLIVESMATTER Jul 3rd, 2020

POC in Mobile: Why Jam City's Michael Raeford believes education is key to diversifying the games industry

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

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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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POC in Mobile: Why Jam City's Michael Raeford believes education is key to diversifying the games industry #BLACKLIVESMATTER Jul 3rd, 2020

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

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as Four years on and Pokemon GO is still flying high NOT A ONE TRICK PONYTA Jul 6th, 2020

Four years on and Pokemon GO is still flying high

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Interview: LEGO Super Mario design lead Jonathan Bennink on bringing Nintendo's mascot to life with bricks BRICK BY BRICK Jul 3rd, 2020

Interview: LEGO Super Mario design lead Jonathan Bennink on bringing Nintendo's mascot to life with bricks

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

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Sky: Children of the Light flies past 20 million downloads

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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

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as This Week in China: Tencent unveils huge new games as it handles chili sauce promotion fraud case THIS WEEK IN CHINA Jul 6th, 2020

This Week in China: Tencent unveils huge new games as it handles chili sauce promotion fraud case

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1 Ten Square Games experiences its best quarter yet with $43 million MONEY MONEY MONEY Jul 6th, 2020

Ten Square Games experiences its best quarter yet with $43 million

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as Nexon opens worldwide pre-registrations for V4 THE FOUR V'S Jul 3rd, 2020

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AppLovin strengthens its executive team with four new appointments ALL ABOARD Jul 7th, 2020

AppLovin strengthens its executive team with four new appointments

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EVO Online cancelled as CEO is removed due to sexual misconduct #METOO Jul 3rd, 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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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

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

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as Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile and Perfect World power Tencent's smartphone revenue to $3.2bn in Q2 News Aug 14th, 2019

Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile and Perfect World power Tencent's smartphone revenue to $3.2bn in Q2

Overall online games business grew eight per cent to $3.9bn

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as Tencent’s Perfect World was the top grossing mobile game globally in March 2019 News Apr 24th, 2019

Tencent’s Perfect World was the top grossing mobile game globally in March 2019

Honor of Kings follows in second place

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as Perfect World’s $100 million launch month dethrones Honor of Kings News Mar 28th, 2019

Perfect World’s $100 million launch month dethrones Honor of Kings

Tencent's newest MMO has been raking in $4.5 million in player spending every day since launch

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