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Monetizer Mavens discuss if Apple Arcade is just for the kids Mobile Mavens Sep 18th, 2019

Monetizer Mavens discuss if Apple Arcade is just for the kids

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Hot Five: Pokemon Go sustains, Lineage 2 M teases, and Small Giant's transition to success Hot Five Sep 9th, 2019

Hot Five: Pokemon Go sustains, Lineage 2 M teases, and Small Giant's transition to success

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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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as As Rush Wars hits soft launch, how are Supercell’s other games doing? The Charticle Aug 26th, 2019

As Rush Wars hits soft launch, how are Supercell’s other games doing?

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1 How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? The IAP Inspector Mar 25th, 2019

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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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All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight Feature Jun 16th, 2016

All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight

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  • Finland
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  • RPG
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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 Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG Interview Aug 25th, 2015

Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG

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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

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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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Apple clamping down on reskinners with new App Store algorithm

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Monetizer Mavens discuss if Apple Arcade is just for the kids Mobile Mavens Sep 18th, 2019

Monetizer Mavens discuss if Apple Arcade is just for the kids

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1 How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? The IAP Inspector Mar 25th, 2019

How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and 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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5 How does Coin Master monetise? The IAP Inspector Feb 7th, 2018

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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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What does Apple Arcade mean for indie games developers? Mobile Mavens Mar 29th, 2019

What does Apple Arcade mean for indie games developers?

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3 as Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries The Charticle Mar 8th, 2018

Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries

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Apple Arcade - the First Time User Experience perspective START HERE Sep 20th, 2019

Apple Arcade - the First Time User Experience perspective

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201 50 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Tales SOFT LAUNCH Sep 16th, 2019

50 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Tales

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Build fast and start playing: How Ministry of Games created its Rapid Development Funnel FASTER, FASTER Sep 11th, 2019

Build fast and start playing: How Ministry of Games created its Rapid Development Funnel

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MENA Region Focus: Behind the scenes on the Saudi Arabian games industry REGION FOCUS Sep 10th, 2019

MENA Region Focus: Behind the scenes on the Saudi Arabian games industry

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as What we learned at the Bridge between East and West summit in association with Mintegral EAST AND WEST Sep 5th, 2019

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13 top videos from PGC Helsinki 2018 to whet your appetite for 2019's event on October 1st and 2nd PGC HELSINKI VIDEOS Sep 5th, 2019

13 top videos from PGC Helsinki 2018 to whet your appetite for 2019's event on October 1st and 2nd

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Region focus: A deep dive into the MENA games industry REGION FOCUS Aug 30th, 2019

Region focus: A deep dive into the MENA games industry

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as As Rush Wars hits soft launch, how are Supercell’s other games doing? SUPER STARS Aug 26th, 2019

As Rush Wars hits soft launch, how are Supercell’s other games doing?

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20 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion BILLION DOLLAR CLUB Apr 3rd, 2019

20 mobile games that have made more than $1 billion

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Apple Arcade - the First Time User Experience perspective START HERE Sep 20th, 2019

Apple Arcade - the First Time User Experience perspective

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Build fast and start playing: How Ministry of Games created its Rapid Development Funnel FASTER, FASTER Sep 11th, 2019

Build fast and start playing: How Ministry of Games created its Rapid Development Funnel

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Games industry roundup: Behind Total war: Three Kingdoms' success, blockchain game Project Genesis heads to Steam, and YouTube defends targeted harassment ROUNDUP Jun 10th, 2019

Games industry roundup: Behind Total war: Three Kingdoms' success, blockchain game Project Genesis heads to Steam, and YouTube defends targeted harassment

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201 50 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Tales SOFT LAUNCH Sep 16th, 2019

50 top games in soft launch: From Marvel Super War and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena to Call of Duty: Mobile and Candy Crush Tales

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

How does Coin Master monetise?

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1 A Brief History of Mobile Games: In the beginning, there was Snake PRE-2000 Mar 14th, 2016

A Brief History of Mobile Games: In the beginning, there was Snake

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3 as Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT Mar 8th, 2018

Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries

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Why Apple’s attitude to title exclusively will make or break Apple Arcade SHARE FOR SUCCESS Sep 20th, 2019

Why Apple’s attitude to title exclusively will make or break Apple Arcade

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The Chinese Room's Dan Pinchbeck on why the timing was right to move to mobile ACQUISITION AND SCALE Sep 20th, 2019

The Chinese Room's Dan Pinchbeck on why the timing was right to move to mobile

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PGC Helsinki: Kay Gruenwoldt will be leading a session about changing business models in the games industry SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Sep 20th, 2019

PGC Helsinki: Kay Gruenwoldt will be leading a session about changing business models in the games industry

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Live ops and scaling are key to Stillfront’s growth, says CEO Jörgen Larsson CONSTANT CRAVING Sep 20th, 2019

Live ops and scaling are key to Stillfront’s growth, says CEO Jörgen Larsson

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PGC Helsinki: Redhill's Miloš Jeřábek will be discussing people management and making teams work SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Sep 19th, 2019

PGC Helsinki: Redhill's Miloš Jeřábek will be discussing people management and making teams work

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PGC Helsinki: Matti Palosuo will be part of a panel discussing how to keep games alive SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Sep 18th, 2019

PGC Helsinki: Matti Palosuo will be part of a panel discussing how to keep games alive

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  • Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2019
Can Apple regain control of mobile gaming with Apple Arcade? BATTLE LINES Sep 18th, 2019

Can Apple regain control of mobile gaming with Apple Arcade?

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Monetizer Mavens discuss if Apple Arcade is just for the kids WALLED GARDEN Sep 18th, 2019

Monetizer Mavens discuss if Apple Arcade is just for the kids

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Can Apple regain control of mobile gaming with Apple Arcade? BATTLE LINES Sep 18th, 2019

Can Apple regain control of mobile gaming with Apple Arcade?

  • Apple Arcade
How Wargaming is tweaking its strategy in the search for new hits, while remaining totally tanked up FINDING BALANCE Sep 16th, 2019

How Wargaming is tweaking its strategy in the search for new hits, while remaining totally tanked up

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  • Belarus
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as M&A, hyper-casual and chat app gaming: Zynga COO talks future strategy ZYNGA ZOOMING Sep 12th, 2019

M&A, hyper-casual and chat app gaming: Zynga COO talks future strategy

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  • Merger
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Live ops and scaling are key to Stillfront’s growth, says CEO Jörgen Larsson CONSTANT CRAVING Sep 20th, 2019

Live ops and scaling are key to Stillfront’s growth, says CEO Jörgen Larsson

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Monetizer Mavens discuss if Apple Arcade is just for the kids WALLED GARDEN Sep 18th, 2019

Monetizer Mavens discuss if Apple Arcade is just for the kids

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The Chinese Room's Dan Pinchbeck on why the timing was right to move to mobile ACQUISITION AND SCALE Sep 20th, 2019

The Chinese Room's Dan Pinchbeck on why the timing was right to move to mobile

  • Acquisition
  • iOS
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  • Dear Esther
  • Little Orpheus
1 How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise? SHARP SHINY THINGS Mar 25th, 2019

How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise?

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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

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

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Where Cards Fall is looking good for Apple Arcade

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UPDATED: All 71 launch games for Apple Arcade LET THE GAMES BEGIN Sep 19th, 2019

UPDATED: All 71 launch games for Apple Arcade

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Zynga launches Merge Magic! Gram Games’ follow up to key hit Merge Dragons! MORE MERGING Sep 18th, 2019

Zynga launches Merge Magic! Gram Games’ follow up to key hit Merge Dragons!

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1 as Android to finally overtake iOS as the dominant mobile gaming platform by revenue in 2019 SIZE MATTERS Sep 18th, 2019

Android to finally overtake iOS as the dominant mobile gaming platform by revenue in 2019

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GameAnalytics: Top 25% mobile games have average Day 28 retention of 4% SQUEEZED FUNNEL Sep 13th, 2019

GameAnalytics: Top 25% mobile games have average Day 28 retention of 4%

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as Scopely expanding into the Asian market EXPANDING TO ASIA Sep 16th, 2019

Scopely expanding into the Asian market

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NBCUniversal shutting down game publishing division to focus on licensing DOING A DISNEY Sep 19th, 2019

NBCUniversal shutting down game publishing division to focus on licensing

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Google to rival Apple Arcade with its Play Pass subscription service SIGN UP Sep 13th, 2019

Google to rival Apple Arcade with its Play Pass subscription service

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Seeking a job in the games industry - part two: The interview process

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User acquisition for beginners: A checklist

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Financing your indie games development studio - part four: Due diligence

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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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Financing your indie games development studio - Part one STUDIO FINANCE Mar 29th, 2019

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Ex-Z2 team Starform raises $1.25 million to focus on mobile games to play with friends

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as Microsoft partners with SK Telecom on 5G-based cloud gaming in South Korea PROJECT XCLOUD Sep 5th, 2019

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Sweden’s game industry grew 42% in 2018 INDUSTRY REPORT Sep 13th, 2019

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as Weekly global mobile games charts: Pokemon Masters tops US free App Store rank CHARTS Sep 11th, 2019

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as Pokemon Masters raked in $26 million from first week MASTERFUL Sep 9th, 2019

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as Southeast Asia powered Gravity’s Ragnarok M: Eternal Love to $50 million a month EASTERN PROMISE Sep 5th, 2019

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The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019

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Meet the indie studios coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 INDIE SHOWCASE Jan 14th, 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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