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Mobile games revenue growth remains higher than pre-pandemic levels
But downloads have fallen lower than they were before March 2020, Sensor Tower reports
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Ad quality is a UX challenge
Brainium's Scott Willoughby says mobile devs need to ensure shoddy advertising doesn't undermine their efforts
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PUBG Mobile's lifetime revenues pass $5bn
Sensor Tower estimates show the battle royale generated $2.7 billion in 2020 alone
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Genshin Impact passes $1bn on mobile
MiHoYo's open-world fantasy game passes revenue milestone six months after launch
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PUBG Mobile passes 1bn downloads
Milestone reaches as Tencent's online games revenues rise 29% year-on-year to $6 billion
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Psyonix making Rocket League spin-off for mobile
Epic Games subsidiary's Rocket League Sideswipe is planned for release on App Store and Google Play later this year
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Final Fantasy XI mobile reboot officially cancelled
Nexon and Square Enix indicated that the title didn't meet expectations, despite having been in development for five years
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Niantic to make Nintendo AR mobile games
First project of new partnership will be a walking-oriented Pikmin game set to launch later this year
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ByteDance acquires Moonton Technology
The transaction reportedly valued the Shanghai-based studio at $4 billion
Feature
How Phoenix Games helps studios establish their next hit
Founder Klaas Kersting discusses the beauty of the free-to-play model, its challenges, and why it's not going anywhere
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Dead Cells has now sold 5m copies
Motion Twin's title sold 1m in China "within a few days" -- mobile version to launch on March 30
Feature
What has Square Enix Montreal been doing for the last five years?
As it teases a new Hitman Sniper game and a Space Invaders AR project, head of studio Patrick Naud talks about shifting the studio to free-to-play, what's changed, and what's the same
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Stratosphere Games raises over $2.5m for Project MiniCiv and mobile publishing
Developer receives investment from US fund Skycatcher and German Games Fund
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Google Play revenue cut lowered to 15% on first $1m
Android store will match Apple's reduced App Store cut for small developers starting in July
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My.Games takes minority stake in Espresso Publishing
Investment is part of the Russian firm's push into the hypercasual market
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Were free-to-play fears unfounded? | Podcast
Latest podcast available now, also discusses the recent rise of new indie publishers
Feature
Why the founders of Kolibri Games are leaving their idle goldmine
Daniel Stammler and Janosch Sadowski on their five-year journey from student startup to tech investors, and why they sold to Ubisoft
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Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team racks up 35m downloads
KLab's mobile hit adds another five million downloads in six months
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Epic Games takes legal action against Google in Australia
Latest complaint in ongoing campaign against mobile giants claims Google restrictions violate Australian consumer law
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Zynga pledges $100,000 to Girls Who Code
New partnership announced on International Women's Day will enable non-profit to expand its program of free coding clubs
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Zombies, Run dev Six to Start acquired for $9.5m
Fitness firm OliveX will pay $6.65m upfront, with the rest tied to the UK-based firm's performance
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Arizona bill aims to prevent Apple, Google from blocking third-party payments
Coalition of App Fairness hopes to succeed where it failed in North Dakota amid Epic's antitrust lawsuits
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Lumikai leads $1.5m investment round in All-Star Games
Play Ventures also contributed to pre-Series A round for the Bangalore-based sports game developer
Academy
Balancing data and creativity: Is there a magic formula for hypercasual games?
Voodoo's Antonin Chapelon details what it takes to stay at the top of the hypercasual mobile market
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Crying Suns reaches 1m players across mobile and PC
Alt-Shift's roguelite hits milestone after launching in September 2019