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Hot Five: PUBG Mobile revenue tops August, Storm8's Amber Okamura talks remote working, and everything you need to know about IDFA changes Hot Five Sep 21st, 2020

Hot Five: PUBG Mobile revenue tops August, Storm8's Amber Okamura talks remote working, and everything you need to know about IDFA changes

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How does Pokemon Café Mix monetise?

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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 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

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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

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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

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

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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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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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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

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

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10 How does Coin Master monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 7th, 2018

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2 Retail virtual reality: What does it need, and where the hell is it? Mobile Mavens Oct 22nd, 2014

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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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249 50 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Hay Day Pop and The Witcher: Monster Slayer SOFT LAUNCH Sep 28th, 2020

50 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Hay Day Pop and The Witcher: Monster Slayer

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Former Sumo director joins Supercell, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and Snap Games snaps up more TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Sep 25th, 2020

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Update: All 135 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Sep 18th, 2020

Update: All 135 Apple Arcade games available now

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Persona.ly exceeds Animoca Brands' Crazy Defense Heroes ROAS KPIs by 70% - Mobile UA case study CASE STUDY Sep 18th, 2020

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Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital: 15 of the most exciting sessions EDITOR'S CHOICE Sep 11th, 2020

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249 50 top games in soft launch: From Angry Birds Legends and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run to Hay Day Pop and The Witcher: Monster Slayer SOFT LAUNCH Sep 28th, 2020

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Why Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells is "the biggest, most robust game Zynga's ever launched" URAMAGICIAN Sep 23rd, 2020

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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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Why Playrix producer Alexander Vedeneev believes Gardenscapes is more than "just a Candy Crush clone" LIVE AND KICKING Oct 1st, 2020

Why Playrix producer Alexander Vedeneev believes Gardenscapes is more than "just a Candy Crush clone"

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Automatically generating performance test reports across all devices using CI with Arm Mobile Studio performance advisor PERFORMANCE ADVICE Oct 1st, 2020

Automatically generating performance test reports across all devices using CI with Arm Mobile Studio performance advisor

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How Mega Man inspired Apple Arcade title Fallen Knight

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Post-COVID, a global approach is helping China’s mobile publishers achieve sustainable growth SUSTAINABLE GROWTH Sep 30th, 2020

Post-COVID, a global approach is helping China’s mobile publishers achieve sustainable growth

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Why Temple Gates is digitising board games for a new generation on mobile INDIE SPOTLIGHT Sep 30th, 2020

Why Temple Gates is digitising board games for a new generation on mobile

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What do living room board games and mobile games have in common? Real-time interactions SPONSORED Sep 29th, 2020

What do living room board games and mobile games have in common? Real-time interactions

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as How a last-minute university course switch lead Tom Van Dam to ByteDance and China REMOTE WORKING Sep 29th, 2020

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Jam City's John Peterson on the continued growth of the studio through M&A SPONSORED Sep 28th, 2020

Jam City's John Peterson on the continued growth of the studio through M&A

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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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Starloop Studios CEO Jesus Bosch discusses why developers are looking to partner more closely with outsourcing firms SPONSORED Sep 25th, 2020

Starloop Studios CEO Jesus Bosch discusses why developers are looking to partner more closely with outsourcing firms

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POC in Mobile: Fellow Traveller's Des Gayle on what's changed in the games industry and what hasn't DIVERSITY MATTERS Sep 25th, 2020

POC in Mobile: Fellow Traveller's Des Gayle on what's changed in the games industry and what hasn't

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as How a last-minute university course switch lead Tom Van Dam to ByteDance and China REMOTE WORKING Sep 29th, 2020

How a last-minute university course switch lead Tom Van Dam to ByteDance and China

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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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From The Boys to Hellboy, four years of partnerships in Legendary: Game of Heroes LIVE AND KICKING Sep 24th, 2020

From The Boys to Hellboy, four years of partnerships in Legendary: Game of Heroes

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11 Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire? WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE May 25th, 2020

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Jam City's John Peterson on the continued growth of the studio through M&A SPONSORED Sep 28th, 2020

Jam City's John Peterson on the continued growth of the studio through M&A

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Blue Hat Interactive still intends to acquire majority stake in Fuzhou Csfctech POSSIBLE DEAL Oct 1st, 2020

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Nintendo wins $2 million in case against Switch hackers NO MORE HACKS Oct 1st, 2020

Nintendo wins $2 million in case against Switch hackers

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as Microsoft and Nintendo team up to bring Minecraft to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ATTACK THE BLOCK Oct 1st, 2020

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Find your funding at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4 with the Investor Connector - sign up now! FIND YOUR FUNDING Oct 1st, 2020

Find your funding at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4 with the Investor Connector - sign up now!

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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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There will be 2.5 billion mobile gamers by the end of 2020 NATION OF BILLIONS Sep 24th, 2020

There will be 2.5 billion mobile gamers by the end of 2020

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Games publisher Leaf teams up with Cypress Hill rapper B Real for musician's first game BUSTING RHYMES Jul 24th, 2020

Games publisher Leaf teams up with Cypress Hill rapper B Real for musician's first game

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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Blue Hat Interactive still intends to acquire majority stake in Fuzhou Csfctech POSSIBLE DEAL Oct 1st, 2020

Blue Hat Interactive still intends to acquire majority stake in Fuzhou Csfctech

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as Microsoft and Nintendo team up to bring Minecraft to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ATTACK THE BLOCK Oct 1st, 2020

Microsoft and Nintendo team up to bring Minecraft to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

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1 Sumo Group acquires co-development specialist Pipeworks in a $100 million deal WELCOME TO THE FAMILY Sep 30th, 2020

Sumo Group acquires co-development specialist Pipeworks in a $100 million deal

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Candy Crush Friends Saga smashes through $200 million in lifetime revenue I WANT CANDY Sep 30th, 2020

Candy Crush Friends Saga smashes through $200 million in lifetime revenue

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Among Us surge in popularity sees 655% rise in downloads, tops 120 million installs globally IMPOSTER SYNDROME Sep 29th, 2020

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There will be 2.5 billion mobile gamers by the end of 2020 NATION OF BILLIONS Sep 24th, 2020

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Chinese strategy games account for 56 per cent of genre revenues in the US SMART STRATEGY Sep 22nd, 2020

Chinese strategy games account for 56 per cent of genre revenues in the US

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PGC Helsinki Digital: Nearly 17 million Animal Crossing 'Tweets' were sent in 12 days IT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING Sep 14th, 2020

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as PGC Helsinki Digital: Battle royale made up 20% of total time spent across mobile games in the first half of 2020 ONLY 3% OF DOWNLOADS Sep 14th, 2020

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1 The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020 BEST OF 2020 Sep 8th, 2020

The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020

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

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