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A short guide to publishing on Amazon Appstore
Vladimir Romanov shares his experience working with Amazon AppStore and speaks about whether it's worth publishing your game on it
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Wildlife launches 8-Bit Bandits with Crash Bandicoot mobile vets
Ex-King devs Stephen Jarrett and Robert Woodburn set up Stockholm studio to capture "couch co-op feel" on mobile
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Netflix opening fifth studio and "seriously exploring" cloud gaming
Streamer's gaming VP Mike Verdu says the company has 55 titles in the works
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Take-Two shutting down Playdots
65 employees from the Dots developer to be laid off, Two Dots development to continue at Zynga
Academy
Don't do that: What to avoid when soft launching a game
AppQuantum's Sergey Ryabtsev and Alina Zlotnik reflect on the mistakes made on a cancelled project and share advice on soft launching in the mobile free-to-play space
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Playtika closes Best Fiends studio Seriously
Playtika's leadership described as "ruthless" and "impatient" as 120 staff are laid off
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Adapting in-game advertising for a privacy-centric world
Adjust's chief product officer Katie Madding explores the best strategies in an ever-changing mobile market
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Apple increasing app store prices across Europe and Asia next month
Developer proceeds will be adjusted as well, additional changes made in Vietnam.
Academy
How to break into the alternative app stores
Flexion's Andreas Mac Mahon goes step by step through the process of taking a game from Google Play and making it sing on other app stores
News
Sony acquires Savage Game Studios
PlayStation Studios Mobile Division launches with the acquisition of mobile studio from ex-Rockstar, Wargaming and Rovio staff
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Why less than 1% of Netflix subscribers downloading games is "not a bad start"
Sensor Tower tells GamesIndustry.biz that company's main challenge is ramping up release schedule and publishing on other platforms
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AppLovin offers to merge with Unity
Non-binding proposal contingent on engine maker backing out of deal to acquire IronSource
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Royelles: "The future of the metaverse is female"
CEO and founder Múkami Kinoti Kimotho explains the idea and intent behind the educational metaverse app for girls
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Google Play adds new rules on interstitial ads
Android storefront's updated policy forbids full-screen ads that are unexpected or can't be skipped after 15 seconds
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If indie games are underreported, mobile games must be invisible | Opinion
Big Games Machine's director James Kaye debunks myths surrounding the mobile industry
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Opera and GameMaker launch free mobile web games publishing platform
GX.games enables developers to bring games to iOS and Android via browsers at no additional cost
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Unity's $4.4bn malware mistake? | This Week In Business
The engine provider is trying to grow beyond games, but its latest deal may have alienated swathes of its longest-running customer base
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Unity CEO: Devs who push back against monetisation can be “brilliant” but also “fucking idiots”
John Riccitiello also says more than half the staff affected by recent layoffs have been rehired elsewhere in the company
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The Diablo is in the details | This Week in Business
Why don't free-to-play publishers want to talk about how their business model actually works?
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Lumi Interactive CEO on making the world (and games) a kinder place
Lauren Clinnick discusses the studio's origin, its debut plant management game, and improving the industry for everyone
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Google settles class action lawsuit with $90 million fund
Funds to be divided among US developers who earned $2 million or less in annual revenue through Google Play from 2016 to 2021
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Diablo Immortal's first month earnings near $50m
Spending peaked on Day 10 with Blizzard earning $2.4 million, 30-day downloads reached 10 million
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AppLovin and Adjust lay off 12% of their workforce
A spokesperson for the mobile firms talked about "a difficult and prudent decision"