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Hot Five: Zynga acquires Rollic, EA discusses WB Games purchase, and Blizzard staff request pay rise Hot Five Aug 10th, 2020

Hot Five: Zynga acquires Rollic, EA discusses WB Games purchase, and Blizzard staff request pay rise

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How does Pokemon Café Mix monetise?

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

Indie Mavens: Weighing up the benefits between digital and physical events for indies

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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

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

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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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 Five: Zynga acquires Rollic, EA discusses WB Games purchase, and Blizzard staff request pay rise Hot Five Aug 10th, 2020

Hot Five: Zynga acquires Rollic, EA discusses WB Games purchase, and Blizzard staff request pay rise

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

How does Coin Master monetise?

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

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Update: All 129 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Aug 10th, 2020

Update: All 129 Apple Arcade games available now

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246 54 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 Aug 10th, 2020

54 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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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Brawlhalla WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Aug 7th, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Brawlhalla

as Big Indie Pitch developers take centre stage at the inaugural Pocket Gamer LaunchPad BIG INDIE LAUNCHPAD Aug 7th, 2020

Big Indie Pitch developers take centre stage at the inaugural Pocket Gamer LaunchPad

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How does Pokemon Café Mix monetise? IN-APP PURCHASE INSPECTOR Jul 30th, 2020

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

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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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246 54 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 Aug 10th, 2020

54 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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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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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Brawlhalla WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Aug 7th, 2020

Mobile Game of the Week: Brawlhalla

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

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Update: All 129 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Aug 10th, 2020

Update: All 129 Apple Arcade games available now

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

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as Big Indie Pitch developers take centre stage at the inaugural Pocket Gamer LaunchPad BIG INDIE LAUNCHPAD Aug 7th, 2020

Big Indie Pitch developers take centre stage at the inaugural Pocket Gamer LaunchPad

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Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP MAKING MAGIC Aug 14th, 2020

Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP

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Square Enix's Karla Reyes on how product management can bring value to your players INTERVIEW Aug 14th, 2020

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POC in Mobile: Why Sumo Digital's Harinder Sangha believes "change needs to happen at every level of the industry" DIVERSITY MATTERS Aug 14th, 2020

POC in Mobile: Why Sumo Digital's Harinder Sangha believes "change needs to happen at every level of the industry"

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Why is Epic going to war with Apple and Google? HARD DAY'S FORTNITE Aug 14th, 2020

Why is Epic going to war with Apple and Google?

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The Voodoo Approach: Lightneer on making the pivot to hyper-casual THE LIGHTNEER APPROACH Aug 13th, 2020

The Voodoo Approach: Lightneer on making the pivot to hyper-casual

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Code Coven's Tara Mustapha on how to get the most from your designers MASTERCLASS Aug 13th, 2020

Code Coven's Tara Mustapha on how to get the most from your designers

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1 Live and Kicking: How World of Tanks Blitz has battled its way up through the charts for six years 1.5 MILLION USERS Aug 13th, 2020

Live and Kicking: How World of Tanks Blitz has battled its way up through the charts for six years

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as User Acquisition in China: Capturing the world's largest mobile gaming audience CHINA UA Aug 12th, 2020

User Acquisition in China: Capturing the world's largest mobile gaming audience

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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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Remote Working: Playrix's Mikhail Klyuev on how to become a game producer JOBS IN GAMES Aug 11th, 2020

Remote Working: Playrix's Mikhail Klyuev on how to become a game producer

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as POC in Mobile: Why Amanotes publishing manager Micke Joseph Moisa believes creative freedom is key to better diversity #BLACKLIVESMATTER Aug 7th, 2020

POC in Mobile: Why Amanotes publishing manager Micke Joseph Moisa believes creative freedom is key to better diversity

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Interview: How Zynga mixed casual card gaming with strong social mechanics in Bluff Plus BLUFF PLUS Aug 12th, 2020

Interview: How Zynga mixed casual card gaming with strong social mechanics in Bluff Plus

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

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

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as User Acquisition in China: Capturing the world's largest mobile gaming audience CHINA UA Aug 12th, 2020

User Acquisition in China: Capturing the world's largest mobile gaming audience

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Indie Spotlight: How Amanita Design's Radim Jurda created the prototype for Creaks as his diploma thesis APPLE ARCADE Aug 12th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: How Amanita Design's Radim Jurda created the prototype for Creaks as his diploma thesis

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as NetEase generated $2.6 billion in revenue for Q2 2020 FINANCIALS Aug 14th, 2020

NetEase generated $2.6 billion in revenue for Q2 2020

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1 Fall Guys clone 'Fall Gang: Knockout' accumulates 81,000 downloads before being removed from App Store FALLOUT Aug 14th, 2020

Fall Guys clone 'Fall Gang: Knockout' accumulates 81,000 downloads before being removed from App Store

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Fortnite generated just $10 million in revenue from Google Play before its removal IT'S A BATTLE Aug 14th, 2020

Fortnite generated just $10 million in revenue from Google Play before its removal

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as Netmarble experiences great growth in Q2 2020 as Seven Deadly Sins continues to perform well FINANCIALS Aug 14th, 2020

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Update: Epic is suing Google after Fortnite's Google Play removal

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Epic sues Apple after Fortnite removed from App Store

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Subway Surfers has surpassed three billion downloads STILL RUNNING Aug 12th, 2020

Subway Surfers has surpassed three billion downloads

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as Chinese gamers will need to use their real names to log in for online gaming from September NO MORE NICKNAMES Aug 10th, 2020

Chinese gamers will need to use their real names to log in for online gaming from September

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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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Sybo hires ex-Gram Games VP of product Jeremy Stein to head up its Copenhagen studio

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Voodoo to award $100k and a publishing contract to the winner of its hypercasual competition YOU'RE A WINNER Aug 12th, 2020

Voodoo to award $100k and a publishing contract to the winner of its hypercasual competition

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as DeNA's game profits are on the rise earning $200.5 million in Q1 FY2020 FINANCIALS Aug 10th, 2020

DeNA's game profits are on the rise earning $200.5 million in Q1 FY2020

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Master the Meta: Understanding Zynga's remarkable trajectory and newest acquisition MASTER THE META Aug 10th, 2020

Master the Meta: Understanding Zynga's remarkable trajectory and newest acquisition

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Mobile games jobs weekly: Sega president Kenji Matsubara resigns, Improbable welcomes new head of publishing, and more Ubisoft exits TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS Aug 7th, 2020

Mobile games jobs weekly: Sega president Kenji Matsubara resigns, Improbable welcomes new head of publishing, and more Ubisoft exits

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Seeking a job in the games industry - part one: The application process

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User acquisition for beginners: A checklist

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

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The games investor checklist: Hunting the next Supercell

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Embracer Group acquires eight new studios including DECA Games

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Epic Games secures $1.78 billion in new funding round

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Fortnite generated just $10 million in revenue from Google Play before its removal IT'S A BATTLE Aug 14th, 2020

Fortnite generated just $10 million in revenue from Google Play before its removal

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US games spending hits a quarterly high with $11.6 billion in Q2 2020

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1 Report: 49 per cent of mobile players pick a new game based on genre WHAT'S YOUR GENRE? Aug 11th, 2020

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as Mobile games revenue grew by $135 million across Malaysia and Singapore $100 MILLION RISE Aug 3rd, 2020

Mobile games revenue grew by $135 million across Malaysia and Singapore

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Mobile games revenue hit $19.3 billion in Q2 2020 27% INCREASE YOY Aug 3rd, 2020

Mobile games revenue hit $19.3 billion in Q2 2020

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SuperData thinks that publishers are doing fine without E3 STAND ALONE Jul 31st, 2020

SuperData thinks that publishers are doing fine without E3

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Supercell, Supercell, and Supercell: The most read news stories of 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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Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP Comment & Opinion Aug 14th, 2020

Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP

Zynga director of product Peter Rosetti on what it takes to bring Harry Potter to match-3

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Zynga opens pre-registrations for Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells News Aug 13th, 2020

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"We'll be delighting fans with the memorable characters, sound and story of the original books and films"

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Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells debut trailer glimpses iconic locations News May 15th, 2020

Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells debut trailer glimpses iconic locations

Zynga, Warner Bros. and Portkey Games for a new mobile game based on the Harry Potter license

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Zynga in the time of Covid-19 Interview May 12th, 2020

Zynga in the time of Covid-19

COO Matt Bromberg considers the new era

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Zynga partners with Portkey Games and Warner Bros. for Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells News Mar 5th, 2020

Zynga partners with Portkey Games and Warner Bros. for Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells

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