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Mobile Mavens: expert predictions for the future of the mobile games industry Mobile Mavens Jan 21st, 2022

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Hot Five: Take-Two’s $12.7 billion Zynga acquisition, NFTs in Habbo, and three new casual games in the Netflix lineup Hot Five Jan 17th, 2022

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How Rocket League Sideswipe hit the back of the net Interview Dec 21st, 2021

How Rocket League Sideswipe hit the back of the net

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2 PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge News Oct 18th, 2021

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

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How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye Feature Oct 5th, 2021

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PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook Comment & Opinion Sep 23rd, 2021

PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook

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10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job News Aug 13th, 2021

10 games industry jobs to apply for this week

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How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise? The IAP Inspector Oct 26th, 2020

How does Hot Wheels Unlimited monetise?

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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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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 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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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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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

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3 Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14 Monetizer Jan 30th, 2015

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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

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Hot Five: Take-Two’s $12.7 billion Zynga acquisition, NFTs in Habbo, and three new casual games in the Netflix lineup Hot Five Jan 17th, 2022

Hot Five: Take-Two’s $12.7 billion Zynga acquisition, NFTs in Habbo, and three new casual games in the Netflix lineup

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Mobile Mavens: industry reactions to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard Mobile Mavens Jan 19th, 2022

Mobile Mavens: industry reactions to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

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Mobile Mavens: expert predictions for the future of the mobile games industry Mobile Mavens Jan 21st, 2022

Mobile Mavens: expert predictions for the future of the mobile games industry

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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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2 PGbiz Podcast #6 - Original Games and the rise of merge News Oct 18th, 2021

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

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How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye Feature Oct 5th, 2021

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as Hot Five: Former Zynga execs launch Dice: Heroes of Whitestone, Tencent raises $3 billion, and Roblox’s Chinese app removed from mainland stores Hot Five Jan 10th, 2022

Hot Five: Former Zynga execs launch Dice: Heroes of Whitestone, Tencent raises $3 billion, and Roblox’s Chinese app removed from mainland stores

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Angry Birds Journey WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Jan 21st, 2022

Mobile Game of the Week: Angry Birds Journey

Careers in games: getting started as a UX designer ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? Jan 21st, 2022

Careers in games: getting started as a UX designer

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Update: All 231 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jan 21st, 2022

Update: All 231 Apple Arcade games available now

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Update: 10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time MONOPOLY MONEY Jan 18th, 2022

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266 54 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded SOFT LAUNCH Jan 17th, 2022

54 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded

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The challenges of designing nonlinear PvP DON'T HIT ME Dec 31st, 2021

The challenges of designing nonlinear PvP

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Aaron Astle's 2021 Mobile Game of the Year: Pokémon Unite A NEW DIRECTION Dec 30th, 2021

Aaron Astle's 2021 Mobile Game of the Year: Pokémon Unite

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What does the future hold for mobile games advertising? META MONEY Dec 28th, 2021

What does the future hold for mobile games advertising?

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266 54 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded SOFT LAUNCH Jan 17th, 2022

54 top games in soft launch: From Apex Legends Mobile and Everdale to Mighty Doom and Tomb Raider Reloaded

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Update: 10 biggest video game acquisitions of all time MONOPOLY MONEY Jan 18th, 2022

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13 Mobile Game of the Week: Angry Birds Journey WHAT WE'RE PLAYING Jan 21st, 2022

Mobile Game of the Week: Angry Birds Journey

Update: All 231 Apple Arcade games available now AN APPLE (GAME) A DAY Jan 21st, 2022

Update: All 231 Apple Arcade games available now

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Careers in games: getting started as a UX designer ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? Jan 21st, 2022

Careers in games: getting started as a UX designer

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3 Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14 FUTURE EARNINGS Jan 30th, 2015

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

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How Behind the Frame tells a story from the painter's eye MAKING OF Oct 5th, 2021

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Updated: Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time REIGNING REVENUE RAISERS Nov 26th, 2021

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Voodoo and MagicLab discuss building a successful hypercasual partnership

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Road to Connects London: Playtra's Dan Bernardo on creating off-trend games PG CONNECTS LONDON Jan 20th, 2022

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1 The PocketGamer.biz View: Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard KING OF ACQUISITIONS Jan 18th, 2022

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Ryu Games' Lilly Contino on coming out as trans, representation, and personal achievements PROGRESSIVE PLAY Jan 18th, 2022

Ryu Games' Lilly Contino on coming out as trans, representation, and personal achievements

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Road to Connects London: Wiggin's Isabel Davies on F2P regulations PG CONNECTS LONDON Jan 18th, 2022

Road to Connects London: Wiggin's Isabel Davies on F2P regulations

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CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu on Spyke Games' massive $55 million seed round BUILT TO WIN Jan 17th, 2022

CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu on Spyke Games' massive $55 million seed round

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1 How to balance game monetisation with a player-first mindset PLAYER FIRST ALWAYS Jan 12th, 2022

How to balance game monetisation with a player-first mindset

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Case Study: How Panteon bucked the hypercasual trend with ironSource LevelPlay NO MYSTERY HERE Jan 11th, 2022

Case Study: How Panteon bucked the hypercasual trend with ironSource LevelPlay

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Case Study: How Panteon bucked the hypercasual trend with ironSource LevelPlay NO MYSTERY HERE Jan 11th, 2022

Case Study: How Panteon bucked the hypercasual trend with ironSource LevelPlay

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CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu on Spyke Games' massive $55 million seed round BUILT TO WIN Jan 17th, 2022

CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu on Spyke Games' massive $55 million seed round

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Ryu Games' Lilly Contino on coming out as trans, representation, and personal achievements PROGRESSIVE PLAY Jan 18th, 2022

Ryu Games' Lilly Contino on coming out as trans, representation, and personal achievements

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Voodoo and MagicLab discuss building a successful hypercasual partnership NOW THAT'S MAGIC Jan 20th, 2022

Voodoo and MagicLab discuss building a successful hypercasual partnership

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1 The PocketGamer.biz View: Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard KING OF ACQUISITIONS Jan 18th, 2022

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Road to Connects London: Wiggin's Isabel Davies on F2P regulations PG CONNECTS LONDON Jan 18th, 2022

Road to Connects London: Wiggin's Isabel Davies on F2P regulations

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Why the team behind hit mobile game Subway Surfers is opening a new publishing arm BEYOND A BILLION Sep 30th, 2016

Why the team behind hit mobile game Subway Surfers is opening a new publishing arm

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Road to Connects London: Playtra's Dan Bernardo on creating off-trend games PG CONNECTS LONDON Jan 20th, 2022

Road to Connects London: Playtra's Dan Bernardo on creating off-trend games

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Bandai Namco Mobile brings on former Brawl Stars artist Paul Chambers

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Mobile games spending passed $93 billion in 2021, says Newzoo APAC PREDOMINANCE Jan 20th, 2022

Mobile games spending passed $93 billion in 2021, says Newzoo

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as Moonton launches Mobile Legends: Bang Bang NFTs on Binance ASPIRING ASPIRANTS Jan 19th, 2022

Moonton launches Mobile Legends: Bang Bang NFTs on Binance

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Loop Games to invest $100 million to expand Pethereum.io blockchain metaverse BUILDING BLOCKCHAIN Jan 18th, 2022

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1 Kabam appoints Seungwon Lee as CEO REPOSITIONING Jan 17th, 2022

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Bandai Namco Mobile brings on former Brawl Stars artist Paul Chambers PART OF THE CREW Jan 21st, 2022

Bandai Namco Mobile brings on former Brawl Stars artist Paul Chambers

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Kabam to shut down Marvel Realm of Champions MELLOWED MOBA Jan 17th, 2022

Kabam to shut down Marvel Realm of Champions

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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $70 billion cash DEEP BREATHS Jan 18th, 2022

Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $70 billion cash

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as Tencent closes acquisition of Sumo Group SUMO'S SOLD Jan 17th, 2022

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as Update: Stillfront acquires 6Waves for $201 million, buys out Nexon's 34.8% stake for $93 million TOTAL DIVESTMENT Jan 20th, 2022

Update: Stillfront acquires 6Waves for $201 million, buys out Nexon's 34.8% stake for $93 million

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as Update: Stillfront acquires 6Waves for $201 million, buys out Nexon's 34.8% stake for $93 million TOTAL DIVESTMENT Jan 20th, 2022

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as Anzu partners with Livewire to boost APAC ad reach in Roblox APAC ADVERTISING Jan 20th, 2022

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Royal Match sees Dream Games raise $255 million ROYALLY FUNDED Jan 19th, 2022

Royal Match sees Dream Games raise $255 million

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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $70 billion cash DEEP BREATHS Jan 18th, 2022

Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $70 billion cash

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Mobile games spending passed $93 billion in 2021, says Newzoo

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Genshin Impact drove US Action mobile game spending in 2021

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as East versus west: gaming cultures clash in new RPG report RPG REPORT Jan 13th, 2022

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Mobile games deals reached $15.5 billion in 2021, says Drake Star ALMIGHTY ACQUISITIONS Jan 12th, 2022

Mobile games deals reached $15.5 billion in 2021, says Drake Star

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PUBG Mobile takes top spot in December 2021 at $244 million GETTING COMFORTABLE Jan 11th, 2022

PUBG Mobile takes top spot in December 2021 at $244 million

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UK mobile games spending increased by 8.1% in 2021 MOBILE MOVES AHEAD Jan 6th, 2022

UK mobile games spending increased by 8.1% in 2021

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In-game ads expected to generate $14 billion by 2028 IN-APP ADS WIDEN Jan 6th, 2022

In-game ads expected to generate $14 billion by 2028

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Europeans spent $11.2 billion on mobile games in 2021 EUROPEAN SPENDING Jan 6th, 2022

Europeans spent $11.2 billion on mobile games in 2021

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PocketGamer.biz's 22 most anticipated mobile games of 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED 2022 Dec 30th, 2021

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