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

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Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022 Feature Aug 15th, 2022

Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – August 15 2022

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Top 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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Subscription services are growing fast, but unlikely to become the dominant form of monetisation

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Mobile Game of the Week: The House of Da Vinci 3

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The mobile games that have made more than $1 billion in lifetime sales [UPDATE]

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The latest and most interesting mobile games in soft launch. [UPDATE]

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Abigail Rindo: Every game is a different problem to solve narratively and creatively

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How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io

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All 262 Apple Arcade games available now [UPDATE]

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Luis de la Camara: “ I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now the industry is primarily made up of a handful of big companies.” INTERVIEW Sep 20th, 2022

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InnoGames publishes salary bands for 80% of employees SALARY TRANSPARENCY Jul 19th, 2022

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"There is enormous room for the industry to grow in a less saturated market": Joseph Azzam on the Middle East market MENA SPOTLIGHT Sep 24th, 2022

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How innovation and iteration has transformed Survivor.io ROGUELITE Sep 11th, 2022

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

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

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

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as Saudi Arabia eyes up acquisition of major publisher SAUDI ARABIA Sep 30th, 2022

Saudi Arabia eyes up acquisition of major publisher

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Netflix and Tilting Point team up on three new titles

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Theorycraft Games raises $50 million in funding INVESTMENTS Sep 22nd, 2022

Theorycraft Games raises $50 million in funding

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Keywords Studios announces conditional acquisition of Smoking Gun

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Voodoo acquires Tarboosh Games after partnering on past projects ACQUISITION ACHIEVED Sep 21st, 2022

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Cosmo Media Labs launches with investment from The Sandbox INVESTMENT Sep 19th, 2022

Cosmo Media Labs launches with investment from The Sandbox

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as Domination and subgenre - finding your niche in the global mobile market BREAK ON THROUGH Sep 30th, 2022

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Tenjin has released its hypercasual games benchmark report

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Nexters makes a comeback from net loss in H1 2021 to record-high net income for H1 2022 REVENUE RESULTS Sep 29th, 2022

Nexters makes a comeback from net loss in H1 2021 to record-high net income for H1 2022

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GlobalData: Games industry to be worth $470 billion by 2030 MOBILE MOMENTUM Sep 22nd, 2022

GlobalData: Games industry to be worth $470 billion by 2030

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Unity and ironSource announce merger

The companies will collaborate on a new platform that will embed Unity tools with monetisation indicators during games creation

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