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Potato Play raises $5m, launches Merge Restaurant
Mobile studio to invest scaling of casual puzzle title, as well as team expansion
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King exec Tjodolf Sommestad promoted to president
Former president Humam Sakhnini and CCO Sebastian Knutsson to step down as part of leadership shuffle
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Apple receives multiple $5.7m fines from Dutch antitrust regulator
iPhone maker fined five times in as many weeks following no action on changing in-app payment systems
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Sensor Tower: PUBG Mobile generated $237.2 million in January
Garena Free Fire was the most-downloaded game led by India, but the title has since been banned in the country
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Clone culture and its continuous impact on indie developers
Wren Brier and Rami Ismail discuss the evolution of clones in recent years and how to cope with your game being copied
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Netmarble US to join Kabam
Studio president Simon Sim is appointed chief operations officer for the company behind Marvel Contest of Champions
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Microsoft to retire Xbox Live services on Windows Phones
From May 2022, achievements and progress on mobile-enabled titles will no longer apply to Xbox accounts
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App Annie rebrands to Data.ai
Mobile analytics firm changes name to reflect combined consumer and market data
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Supercell revenue increases 45% to $2.24bn in 2021
The studio generated profits before taxes of $852 million, a 80.3% rise compared to 2020
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Rovio reports record Q4 revenues of €286.2 million
Trio of Angry Birds games drive growth in revenues and bookings, but profits dip to €43.7 million
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Zynga posts record sales, continued losses
Fourth quarter and full-year see all-time high revenues, bookings, and engagement metrics, but social publisher's losses were deeper than forecast
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Coffee Stain Malmö is set on mobile
VP of mobile Daniel Persson discusses the Goat Simulator and Valheim publisher's ambitions for original smartphone games and adaptations
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What to do when bringing big-name IP into your mobile game
FunPlus' Bob Slinn shares lessons from bringing Joker and The Walking Dead into its zombie strategy hit State of Survival
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Social First on building a new wave of multiplayer games
Former Kukouri executives discuss new studio, funded and primed to build cross-platform titles aimed at Gen Z
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Analysing the major mobile game design and feature trends in 2021
GameRefinery's Wilhelm Voutilainen looks at the rise of renovation, big IP on mobile, and Japan's growing AR interest
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Hutch agrees to six-month four-day work week trial
UK firm to test out shortened weeks with aims of improving productivity and worker health
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Nexters buys three mobile studios for a combined $100m
Company acquires Cubic Games, RJ Games and Royal Ark to bolster its midcore presence
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Rocky Road raises $2.5m for mobile MMO
Creators of mobile app QuizUp band together to deliver a new casual, open world game “in an accessible way”
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How Garena Free Fire plans to stand out from the battle royale crowd
Producer Harold Teo on keeping the mobile shooter fresh and becoming the most downloaded game for three years running
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Psyonix on pivoting to mobile with Rocket League Sideswipe
The Epic-owned studio discusses the challenges of redesigning the hit car game to suit a different market
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Stillfront acquires 6Waves for $201m
Update: Company to purchase 100% of the shares in the Hong Kong-based mobile publisher, including Nexon's 34.8% stake