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GameRefinery: How developers have changed mobile games in the pandemic

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 7, 2020
2 min

Mobile game developers have increased free gifts, added more playable content, launched charitable campaigns, and adapted location-based titles during the pandemic, according to a...

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Zynga is part of the #PlayApartTogether campaign to boost the WHO.

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Zynga grows Q1 revenue 52% to $404 million but payouts hurt bottom line

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2020
8 min

Zynga reported record revenue and bookings in the first quarter ended March 31 as more people turned to social mobile games while isolated because...

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Fortnite: Party Royale is kicking off Friday, May 8.

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Fortnite surpasses 350 million registered players, which is a lot

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 6, 2020
1 min

Fortnite is one of the biggest games in the world, but what does that mean? Well, developer Epic Games revealed that it has surpassed...

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100+ women execs join the first virtual Women in Gaming Breakfast at GamesBeat 2020

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 6, 2020
2 min

Presented by Niantic Women still only see about 2.7% of total investment funding, but the number of women developers are on the rise. At...

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Taki launches image and video features so digital celebrities can interact with fans

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2020
2 min

Rally, a startup headed by gaming entrepreneur Kevin Chou, unveiled its Taki platform in February for creators, athletes, and celebrities to interact with their...

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EverMerge is a puzzle game that involves modernized fairy tale characters.

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Big Fish Games reimagines fairy tales with EverMerge puzzle adventure

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2020
3 min

Big Fish Games has launched EverMerge, a free-to-play mobile game with fairy-tale characters and gameplay that combines popular merge and match mechanics. The iOS...

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PinkLion’s Jennifer Bonine: AI is dramatically changing game testing

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 6, 2020
5 min

Presented by PinkLion.AI “Now that we’re all in this unique situation with COVID-19, do we have an opportunity to do something dramatically different together?”...

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Sensor Tower — Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp gets a boost thanks to New Horizons

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 5, 2020
1 min

Everyone is talking about Animal Crossing these days, but it’s important to note which Animal Crossing they’re talking about. New Horizons has become a...

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Candy Crush sees more play than ever since Activision-Blizzard’s 2016 acquisition

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 5, 2020
1 min

Activision Blizzard announced today as part of its latest earnings report that King’s mobile games had 273 million monthly active users in Q1 2020....

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I've only one a single Warzone match so far.

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Call of Duty: Warzone hits 60 million downloads in less than 2 months

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 5, 2020
2 min

More than 60 million players have parachuted into Call of Duty: Warzone in the past 52 days since its launch, according to Activision Blizzard....

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