Deconstructor of Fun
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Deconstructor of Fun podcast is created by games professionals for games professionals. We explore the business side of the games industry with the goal of bringing listeners content that is relevant, insightful, and entertaining on a weekly basis.
Hosts:
Michail Katkoff @mkatkoff www.linkedin.com/in/michailkatkoff/
Eric Kress @ekress
www.linkedin.com/in/erickress/
Laura Taranto @laurataranto www.linkedin.com/in/laurataranto/
Phillip Black @econosopher www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-black-economist/
Jen Donahoe @Jen_Donahoe www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferdonahoe
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Mastering Cozy Game Design with Spry Fox' CCO Daniel Cook
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May 06, 2024 |
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TWIG #280 Game Industry Reports Galore
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May 02, 2024 |
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Secrets to Sustainable Success on Roblox with Andrew Rose, CPO at Voldex
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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TWIG #279 Supercell's Squad Busters vs. Dream's Royal Kingdom
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Township Deconstructed: The Secrets to Its Multi-Billion Strategy
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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The Power of Gaming Branding: Real Insights from a Creative Agency
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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TWIG #278 The AAA Studio Model is Dead???
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Inside Istanbul’s Newest Venture Fund, Laton Ventures
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Privacy vs. Ad Monetization with Google and Kwalee
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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TWIG #277 Supercell goes Baby Shark and Kress goes missing
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Kress's Corner #6 Matt Wyble, COO of Second Dinner, the creators of Marvel Snap
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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TWIG #276 Embracer makes their last divestment while Discord goes into adds
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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An Executive Guide for The Backend Jungle
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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TWIG #275 Hit or Miss: Call of Duty Warzone & Travel Town
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Building a Cross-Platform Franchise with Sola Saulenko, CMO of Pixonic
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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What's Right and Wrong About Game Economies with Machinations CEO Mihai Gheza
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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TWIG #274 THE GDC SPECIAL
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The Intricacies of Venture Capital Investments with Joakim Achren, F4 Fund
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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TWIG #273 Istanbul Recap, Embracer sells Saber, Epic's on iOS in EU
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Industry Turmoil and Opportunities Ahead with Goldman Sachs and Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Crucial Remote Work Strategies with Andy Duthie, Executive Producer at My.Games
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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TWIG #272 Is Apple Arcade Rotten? Unity's new transparency
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Insights from Building (& Exiting) Three Companies with Paul Gouge, Founder of Fourth Star
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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TWIG #271 F*wad ads, Xbox nothing news, Eggcellent puns for Eggy Party
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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How GGP & GDC support under-estimated groups and throws the best GDC parties
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The Inner Works of a Game Publisher with John Wright, Kwalee’s Publishing Head
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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TWIG #270 The BIG Supercell Talk
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Product Deep Dive: Whiteout Survival's $400M Loot
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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TWIG #269 The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Four Things a Founder Should Never Do, by Anton Krasnyy, former founder and CEO of Murka
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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TWIG #268 Apple is "Hot Garbage" and Blizzard has a brand new boss...
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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PC and Console Gaming Predictions with Newzoo's Tom Wijman
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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TWIG #267 Apple vs. Epic / Palworld vs. Pokemon
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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6 x Operative Changes That Kept SciPlay Growing Despite the Market Headwinds
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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TWIG #266 The State of Mobile and Monopoly Go’s anti-Profitability Claims
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Elena Grigorian, CEO of MyGames - My First 100 Days as a CEO
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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TWIG #265 Unity continues to lay off while Netflix drops $1,000M on games
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Marketing Predictions 2024 with Eric Seufert
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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TWIG #264 New China Regulations, Market Predictions and Sony Leaks
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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TWIG #263 The DoF Game Industry Awards
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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AD APOCALYPSE 2024 with Felix Braberg, Ad Monetization Consultant
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The State of Play from Real-Time Payments to Web Shops
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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TWIG #262 GOOGLE V. EPIC WON'T SAVE US 🧑⚖️ 📵
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Mobile Gaming Market in 2024 with Lexi Sydow of Data.ai
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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"Zero" Cost Acquisition Tactics
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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TWIG #261 Reacting to GTA VI 🚗 🔫
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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TWIG #260 Get the F out of here! State of Mobile
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Product Marketing Management in Games with Jesse Lempiäinen, Founder/CEO of Geeklab
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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TWIG #259 Monopoly Go's Winning Formula
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WEB3 GAMING DREAM???
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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TWIG #258 Grouchy Kress Alert 🚨
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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7 x GAME INDUSTRY TRUTHS with CHRIS HEWISH, PRESIDENT of XSOLLA
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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TWIG #257 Undercover at Blizzcon 🦹
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Chris Petrovic Teaches Acquiring Great Gaming Companies
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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TWIG #256 "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH VIDEO GAMES?"
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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DIARY OF A (retired) CEO
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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How to Get Press, Tips from Mobilegamer.biz
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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TWIG 255: "F You Unity, We're not Paying!"
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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How to Deal With Negative Feedback a conversation with Sophie Vo of Rise and Play
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Untapped India Mobile Opportunity
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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TWIG #254 Unity and Activision CEO Fantasy Draft
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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AR Gaming revived by the Meta Quest 3?
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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TWIG #253 John Riccitiello's Legacy / EA post FIFA in Numbers
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The Art of Hiring and Getting Hired with Jordan Mazer, Head of Talent at a16z Games
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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TWIG #252 Unity's CEO Finally Speak Out while Epic Lays Off 900
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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REPRESENTATION IN GAMES and Game Award shows
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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TWIG #251 If we were running Unity, we'd...
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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SPEEDRUN with a16z's Josh Lu and Andrew Lee
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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TWIG #250 XBOX SAID WHAT???
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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AI GAMING REVOLUTION: Shaping the Future of Play with Pieter Kooyman
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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TWiG #249 Epic Unity Talk
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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NAVIGATING GAMING MARKET: TRENDS, TRIUMPHS & TROUBLES with Tom Wijman, Newzoo'a Lead Analyst
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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In Conversation: Minecraft Creator Program Exec Producer Kayla Kinnunen
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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TWIG #248 Nintendo - Past, Present, and Future!
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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MASTERING
COMPANY GROWTH with JOE SCHAEPPI, CEO & Co-Founder of Solsten
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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TWIG #247 From Gamescom with a LOT of ❤️❤️❤️
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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ISTANBUL CONFIDENTlAL with RINA ONUR , CEO @ Spyke Games / co-Founder of Peak Games
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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TWiG 246: Getting cozy with Palia! Merge games trends revealed!
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Grit Talk with Brett Nowak, CEO of Liquid & Grit
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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TWIG #245 Kress Returns to Question Netflix, Blizzard, Subscriptions and Venture Capitalists
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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TWIG #244 Has Netflix lost it? Does Nintendo even care about mobile?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Co-Development: an Inside Look with Tim Bennison, COO @ Hot Head Games
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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TWiG 243: Tim Sweeney's Diabolical Plan, Pikmin 4 Picks Up Another Record, and Match3’s Newest Puzzle
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Star Trek Timelines Team on Maximizing Your LiveOps with Web Shops
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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TWiG #242 Dinosaurs Crash an Eggy Party & Battle Pass Galore
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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In Conversation: Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley on Leading the Rebellion
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Mastering Remote Work Culture: A Conversation with Playrix
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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TWiG 241: Web3 Like a Phoenix, FIFA’s Rebrand Scores a Goal, and Tiktok’s Truth
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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No Bull with Joseph Kim, Founder of LILA Games & Game Makers
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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TWiG 240: A BIG Return, A BIG VC Check, and A BIG Brand That Can’t Seem to Win
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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In Conversation: CliffyB on Gears of War, Epic and Control Freak
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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TWiG 239: A Ken't Miss Collaboration, Niantic’s Final Folly and the Real Cost of AAA Development
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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How Heroic Labs Helps You Grow Retention and Focus on the Fun
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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TWiG 238: Honkai Star Rail! Monopoly Go! Diablo Immortal! Nikke! 2023 1H Review
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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In Conversation: Inside UGC Game Development with Gamefam CEO Joe Ferencz
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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TWiG 237: LiveOps Deconstruction - How do Candy Crush & Royal Match Keep it Fresh? LiveOps Marketing with Celebrities - is there ROI?
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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In Conversation: Bringing UA Measurement to PC & Console
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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TWiG 236: Summer Games Fest Gets Hot and Under The Hood of Chrome Valley
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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TWiG 235: Apple Vision Pro! Diablo IV! Privacy Manifests come for device fingerprinting!
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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In Conversation: The Secret Science of Games
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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TWiG 234 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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TWiG 233 Overwatch 2 Scraps High Profile PvE Mode / PUBG Returns to India
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May 25, 2023 |
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In Conversation: Life is Bigger than Your Career with Ethan & Sophie
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May 23, 2023 |
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TWiG 232: Did EA send Lord of the Rings Mobile out to die? Will Peridot be Niantic's next hit?
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May 18, 2023 |
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In Conversation: How Pedro Pascal Become the Face of Merge Mansion
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May 15, 2023 |
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TWiG #231 - Xbox Admits Defeat in the Console Wars / Riot & Activision Settle Their Gender Discrimination Lawsuits
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May 11, 2023 |
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Appsflyer's State of Mobile Game Marketing in 2023
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May 08, 2023 |
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TWIG #230 Why AI is in every single pitch / How Subway Surfer IP should be used / Nintendo's upcoming announcement
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May 04, 2023 |
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This Week in Games 229 - Toon Blast + Tony Hawk = Sybo's Next Hit?
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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In Conversation: Riot SVP & League Studio Head Andrei van Roon
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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TWiG 228 - Sega Buys Rovio! Monopoly Go feels the Love! CoD Warzone Goes P2W!
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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In Conversation: Alex Seropian on the Birth of Bungie and Life After Exit
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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TWiG #227 - Saudi Arabia's Gaming Ambitions / Super Mario's Blockbuster Movie / Kress Compliments New Zoo
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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TWiG Hot Take - Savvy Games Group acquires Scopely for $4.9 billion
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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TWiG #226 - An Eric says goodbye, but which one? Also, E3 is dead again!
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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In Conversation: Chris Heatherly on the Death of Games-As-Apps and the Ascent of Games-As-Content
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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TWiG #225 - GDC Recap / Unreal Engine for Fortnite / Counterstrike 2
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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TWiG #224 - Istanbul Recap / Silicon Valley Banking Meltdown / Do You Believe In Believer
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Kress' Corner 5: Moritz Baier-Lentz (Lightspeed Venture Partners)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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TWiG #223 - Apex Legends Mobile Shutdown Root Causes / Knockout City & The Problem with Cosmetics / Niantic Needs a New Thesis
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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TWiG #222 - App Store Exposé! Hogwarts’ Sales Success!
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Kress's Corner #4 - How to grow a Startup from 5 to 100 people?
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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TWiG #221 - Supercell's Strategic Shifts / Blizzard's Return to Office
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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TWIG 220 The problem with Kotaku and why Xbox Game Pass is the doom
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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TWIG #219 TakeTwo Zynga Acquisition - perhaps most ill-advised acquisitions in gaming of all time
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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TWiG 218 - Everdale's Metacore Move / Death of E3 / EA Abandons Mobile Shooters
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Phoenix Labs CEO Jesse Houston on Building a Forever Company
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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TWiG #217 - Playtika makes a move for Rovio / Why have gaming SPACs performed so poorly on the stock market?
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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TWIG #216 Ubisoft Staff Threatens to Strike over 4-Day Work Week / Laying out the Bull case for Mobile
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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5 Secrets Behind Mr. Autofire's $40M Success with co-Founder Miikka Ahonen
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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TWIG #215 THE 2023 PREDICTIONS 🎉🥳🥁🏆
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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How to Find a Unified, Single Source of Truth for your Marketing Team with Yevgeny Peres, EVP of Product Strategy @ Appsflyer
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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TWIG #214 (The Unofficial) Deconstructor of Fun 2022 Gaming Awards
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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In a Privacy-Centric World, Creative is More Important Than Ever
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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TWIG #213 THE SEASON FINALE!
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Veteran Technical Director James Marr Answers: What Makes A Great Game Engineer?
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Kress's Corner #3 - How to discover and manage Licensing?
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #21 - Former Covet Fashion GM Sarah Fuchs on Muus Collective and Bringing Fashion Gamers to Web3
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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TWiG #211 - ATT's Effects on the Industry / Loot Box Legislation / Boom Beach Frontlines Shuts Down
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Guest Host Trio Debates Marvel Snap
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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TWiG #210 - Blizzard & NetEase Break Up / 10 Years of Candy Crush
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Esports Superstar 100 Thieves Started A Game Studio! COO John Robinson and Chief Game Maker Pete Hawley Tell Us Why.
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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TWIG #209 What is going on with games in China???
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #20 - Why MystenLabs Raised $300m to Build a Better Layer1 for Web3 Gaming
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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TWiG #208 - Layoffs, Earnings Reports, FTX Collapse & NFT Royalties Explained
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Kress’s Corner #2 How do gaming Venture Capitalist really work?
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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TWIG #207 Is the Microsoft Xbox really Pass profitable?
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Kress’s Corner #1 Is influencer marketing hype or reality?
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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TWIG #206 Xbox Store for Mobile / Marvel Snap's BIG launch / Apple's SKAdNetwork 4.0
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #19 - Sebastien Borget Gives Us a Tour of The Sandbox
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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TWiG #205 - Meta's Haphazard Horizion / Playdot's Closure / Overwatch 2's Battlepass
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Diablo Boss Rod Fergusson On What Makes a World Class Videogame Producer
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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TWiG #204 - "The Metaverse" Book Club
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #18 - Aqua CEO Sean Ryan on Building a Better Web3 NFT Marketplace
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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TWiG #203 Google Stadia shutdown and the new world order of user acquisition in mobile
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Practical Advice for Growing Games in Diverse Markets with Nancy Huang (Head of UA @ East Side Games) and Ludovic Thevelin (Growth Consultant @ Google)
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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IGN Publisher John Davison on Justin Roiland's High On Life and How Games Get Covered in 2022
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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TWiG #202 - The Battle for Twitch's Soul / Gabe Leydon's Limit Break Explained
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #17 - Mighty Bear's $10m Pivot from Butter Royale to Blockchain Games
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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TWiG #201 GTA Leaks, Nintendo Brings the Heat and Kim MacAskill vs Rocksteady
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #16 - Top Gaming VCs On Investing During Crypto Winter
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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The Unofficial Clash Quest Postmortem
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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TWiG #200 Joseph Kim is BACK as the team talks Microsoft vs. Sony and Netflix + Ubisoft
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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TWIG #199 How Apple can build a $30 billion ad business, the BIG wave of gaming layoffs and Tencent's grab of Ubisoft
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #15 Kongregate's Web3 ambitions, their $40M fund and the Immutable partnership
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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TWiG #198 Bittersweet Goodbyes / Embracer's Lord of the Rings play / reflections on Zynga 10 years later
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Eric Kress on being misrepresented, pissing off sponsors, and why he can't be canceled
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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TWiG #197 Can 4-day work weeks actually work? What is Embracer going to do with Lord of the Rings?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #14: How a Design Legend Found Web3 Success
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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TWiG #196 Debate: What’s the right role of market research in early game development?
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Finding Success with a Sex-Positive Game Hook Up
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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TWIG #195 AppLovin's game of musical chairs I JamCity's infamous layoffs I Roblox misses estimates
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Art Directors Reveal the Secrets to Successful Art Outsourcing
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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TWiG #194 The implications of Google's new ad policies / the 3-steps to make a successful free-to-play game
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #13: How Hollywood star’s love of WoW led to creation of Armored Kingdom
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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How a Games Industry Pro Leads Product at Peloton Interactive
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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TWiG #193 Lets talk about the Crypto Winter!
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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TWIG #192 Tesla enters gaming / Netflix latest gaming veteran hires / E3 returns on-site
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #12 How UnCaged Studios combines Web3 and esports while building its custom platform
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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TWiG 191 Is remote work killing your studio's efficiency? / HOT take on Unity x ironSource
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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TWIG #190 What has happened to all the video games?
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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What the heck is going on? Discussing the gaming megatrends with Hemal Thaker (Goldman Sachs) and Kartik Prabhakara (Aream)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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TWiG #189 Is Blizzard back on track? Why did Miniclip acquire Sybo? Why standards for open metaverse is risky?
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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TWiG #188 Surviving the mobile marketing winter / Netflix mobile titles seen only 13m downloads / return of the Crypto Corner
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Going Beyond User Acquisition - the Curious Case of Dice Dreams
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #11 Inside Illuvium’s $72m Land Sale with Economy Designer Khalid Alroumi
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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TWIG #187 Spending $100k in Diablo Immortal / Saudi Arabia's grab of Embracer
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Building Supercell Under the Sun with Massimo Caporale, CPO at Bandai Namco Mobile
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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TWIG #186 Inside the decline of mobile games market / The impact of updates to Apple's SKAd Network
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #10 Writing a Kickass Whitepaper with Void Runners’ spacedog
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Battle Passes - Everything You Ought to Know and Then Some
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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TWIG #185 Analysis of Sony's investor day / The $222 billion gaming market vs. global rececession
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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In-Game Ads for Console and PC Games - Opportunity or Threat?
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May 30, 2022 |
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TWIG #184 Why EA is not for sale / TikTok’s push into gaming / Snap’s lower guidance
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May 26, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #9 Understanding the WAX blockchain with gaming veteran Michael Rubinelli
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May 25, 2022 |
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Deep Dive into A16Z's GAMES FUND ONE
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May 22, 2022 |
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TWIG #183 Ubisoft's bet on mobile / AppLovin's masterful earnings report / the problem with braintrusts
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May 20, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #9 The Collapse of the Terra Ecosystem Explained
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May 18, 2022 |
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How to Get Bang for Your Buck with Influencers featuring Chief Pat
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May 17, 2022 |
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TWIG #182 Crypto crash and blockchain gaming / Explaining FIFA's breakup with EA
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May 12, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #8 Premium Utility NFTs and How to Build a Tokenized Community
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May 11, 2022 |
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TWIG #181 Embracers shopping spree continues / Blizzard launches Warcraft Clash
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May 05, 2022 |
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Blockchain Gaming with the Web3 Pioneer, Shahaf Bar Geffen
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May 01, 2022 |
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TWIG #180 Why private equities are eying Ubisoft / Epic Games CEO's take on the metaverse, crypto, and antitrust
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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How a gaming executive Chris Heatherly red-pilled on crypto and joined Recur
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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TWIG #179 Xbox games get ads, Huuuge Games gets a co-CEO and World of Warcraft receives a new expansion
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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TWIG #178 Why mobile games spending dropped in Q1/22
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Inside Overwolf with Uri Marchand, co-founder and CEO of Overwolf and Lee McNeil founder and CEO of Tebex
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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TWIG #177 E3 is canclled / Why Netflix should sell ads / the latest from the EA's Glu merger
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #7 Axie Infinity’s $625m Hack Explained
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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TWIG #176 LIVE from Istanbul featuring a Special Guest Star
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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How Wooga's Switchcraft Aced the Soft Launch!
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #6 The Bored Apes $450M Pitch Deck for an MMO
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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TWIG #175 Bored Ape Yacht Club raises $450M for an MMO / Are fully remote studios just a fad?
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The Secret Sauce of Scaling Successfully with Joshua Wilson, CEO of SciPlay
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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TWIG #174 Daddy's Back!
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Playtest to Success with Christian Ress, CEO of PlaytestCloud
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #5 Line Goes Up - What Is The Problem With NFTs Anyways?
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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TWIG #173 Why gaming companies are really leaving Russia / Court rules that loot boxes are not a game of chance
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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TWIG #172 How the War in Ukraine impacts Games Industry / Gabe Newell on the Metaverse / Playtika is for Sale
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Thetan Arena - the game that combines F2P and P2E
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #4 What the DAO?!?
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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TWIG #171 The next Call of Duty gets delayed while the mobile version dominates / GameStops crypto debacle
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Everything You Ought to Know about Raising Capital in 2022 with Joakim Achren
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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TWIG #170 Discussing Supercell CEO's blog post / The Crypto Czar speaks!
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Avatar Platform for Cross-App Metaverse with Timmu Tõke, CEO of Ready Player Me
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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TWIG #169 Google Stadia's big pivot and the rise of games that spy on you!
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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How to Kill a Game and Pivot Successfully
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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TWIG #168 Everything you haven't likely heard about Sony's $3.6B Bungie acquisition
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #3 How to Build a Blockchain Gaming Studio from Scratch
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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TWIG #167 Metaverse rave looks boring and dead / App Store has 'too big to fail' problem / Respawns 3 new Star Wars games
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Advanced Audience Understanding with Joe Schaeppi, CEO of Solsten
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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TWIG #166 Why Microsoft Bought Activision and What Will Sony do Next?
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Clash Mini - Contender or Pretender?
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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TWIG #165 Did Take-Two overpay for Zynga?
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Tokenomics #2 Crypto Raiders Explained
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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TWIG #164 The Year 2021 in Numbers
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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In-Game Audio Ads - the New Frontier of Ad Monetization
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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TWIG #163 End of the Year SPECIAL!
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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Tokenomics #1 Making a Perfect Blockchain Game Pitch
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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TWIG #162 Ubisoft's NFT announcement bombs / The Rock joins Fortnite / Spiderman comes to PUBG Mobile
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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How to Level Up as Leader with Niklas Herriger
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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TWIG #161 Ubisoft goes NFT / Apple's plans to take commission outside App Store / How to be a great games CEO
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Former Apple App Store Head of Games BD, joins the podcast...
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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TWIG #160 Facebook loses crypto executive / Supercell sponsors Mr. Beast / Star Citizen has raised $400M
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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True Talk: Women in Games
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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TWIG #159 Candy Crush' new CMO comes from a footwear company / Moon Active's $5 billion valuation / the Esports bubble debate
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Why Pokemon Unite Hasn’t Reached the Top (yet?)
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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TWIG #158 Axie Infinity troubles / Activision history of misconduct / Roblox analyst day recap
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Blockchain Gaming for Dummies
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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TWIG #157 Zynga hires VP of blockchain gaming as NFT hype hits a crescendo
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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How to Brand a New Studio with Joe Nicholls, President & co-Founder of Timbre Games
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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TWIG #156 Let's talk AppLovin / Activision tumbles / Silver bullets in gaming
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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TWIG #155 Our take on Amazon's New World / Snap's 23% IDFA fumble / Reasons to get bullish on blockchain gaming
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Everything You Didn’t Know About Playrix with Maxim Kirilenko, CBDO at Playrix
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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TWIG #154 Epic allows NFTs / Stillfront sued over earnout dispute / AppLovin whistleblower story
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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How to Ship Successful Word Games with Michael Martinez, CEO of FunCraft
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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TWIG #153 All Crypto Everything & how to be a great Product Manager in games
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Growth Triggers #10 Audio ads in the post IDFA landscape with a guest star, Amit Monheit from ODEOO
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Crypto Gaming 101 with Aleksander Leonard Larsen (COO, Sky Mavis) and Anton Backman (Play Ventures)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Lets Talk: Netflix Games - Past, Present and Predictions
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Instant Games 2.0 with Justin Waldron, President of Playco
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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TWIG #152 When you ‘Ask app not to track,’ some iPhone apps keep snooping anyway / UK Cracks Down On In-Game Microtransactions
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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How to Scale a Merge Game with Antti Hattara, CEO of Starberry Games
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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TWIG #151 Dapper Labs raises another $250 million, deep games for masses, and FIFA's updated loot pack strategy
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Here's How You Can Capitalize From the Apple vs. Epic Court Ruling
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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TWIG #150 The App Store is the Games Store and Apple should recognize this / Can Supercell Boost Beatstar Into a Major Hit
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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We just raised $100M - here's what's next with Ian Proulx, CEO of 1047 Games
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Creative optimization and Iteration in the Context of iOS 14 with Miri Growth
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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TWIG #149 Supercell's Everdale / Nifty Games raises $38M / Axie Infinity’s $1.2 Billion Annualized Revenue
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Secrets to Successful Cross Promotion with Playtika's Yuval Yosefi
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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TWIG #148 Apple concedes amid antitrust pressure / Facebook undercounts installs on iOS14 / Miska's internet evaporates
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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How to Hire the Perfect Art Director for Games
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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TWIG #147 Hot takes on new game releases / Liftoff ❤️ Vungle / LILA Games value deck / Riot Games on mobile
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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TWIG #146 The Problem with VR / Mobile Games to Surpass $120B in 2021 / App Store Regulations
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Metaverse, NFTs and Creator Economies with Jon Radoff, CEO of Beamable
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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TWIG #145 Why did Zynga plummet despite record earnings, Golf Rivals vs. Golf Clash and how FIFA Ultimate Team boosted its sales
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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TWIG #144 Tencent tanks as regulatory concerns mount, Blizzard president gets booted and Riot generates $100M on mobile
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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TWIG #143 Tilting Point Raises $235M, Blizzard Sued over Frat Boy Culture, Facebook Talks Metaverse
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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TWIG #142: No IDFA? No Problem! Netflix Hires Facebook Gaming Exec and Peloton Makes a Game
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Call of Duty Mobile - Past, Present & Future with Chris Plummer (Head of Mobile) and Matthew Lewis (GM, CoDM)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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TWIG #141: Google expands ad targeting in mobile games, WoW update dissapoints, NoPixel and Grand Theft Auto
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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How to Navigate Through a Soft Launch with a Mid-Core Game in 2021
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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TWIG #140 Secret for growing Brawl Stars, Game deals surpassed $60B, next Assassin’s Creed will be a live service game
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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No Rules Rules - the merits and pitfalls of a ruthless culture
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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TWIG #139: EA spends big on Playdemic, self-publishing equals VC money, Duolingo's S1
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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How MTG is Building a Family One Acquisition at a Time
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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TWIG #138: Disney's resurgence into games & E3 Review
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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How to Make a Hyper Successful Idle Game
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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TWIG #137: Deep Dive into NFT and Netflix Games + Special Guest Star!
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Making the Business Case for VR Games with Chris Pruett (Oculus)
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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TWIG #136: Apple's WWDC, Valorant goes Mobile, Space Ape snags Boom Beach from Supercell
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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TWIG #135: EA Mobile breakdown, Apple's battle against Microsoft and Epic
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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TWIG #134: Netflix Goes Games, Garena Free Fire Financials and Jam City SPAC
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May 27, 2021 |
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Life Post Acquisition with Lou Fasulo, CEO of Starform (previosly Z2)
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May 24, 2021 |
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TWIG #133: Scopely's Game Acquisition Approach, Our Analysis of Zynga, Ubisoft goes F2P, Xbox Partners with Timi
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May 18, 2021 |
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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May 14, 2021 |
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TWIG #132: Zynga Acquires Chartboost, Metacore's $150M Credit Line and Division Aims at Mobile
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May 11, 2021 |
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Newzoo’s 2021 Trends to Watch in Games
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May 07, 2021 |
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TWIG #121: APEX Mobile, Fortnite Made $9B, Call of Duty Gets a New General Manager
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May 06, 2021 |
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Facebook's Games Marketing Insights for 2021
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May 02, 2021 |
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Growth Triggers #9 iOS 14, the Creative Paralysis and the Android Safe Havens
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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TWIG 130: EA's New Battlefield Game, Epic vs. Apple, New Leadership for Overwatch
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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TWIG 129: Applovin Falls 19%, Playstation IP to Mobile, Square Enix M&A Rumors, JK Retiring!
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Games That Last a Decade with Ken Go, CEO & Founder of DECA Games
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Blockchain Basics In Gaming Explained | Upland's Dirk Lueth
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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TWIG 128: Epic Will Lose $300M on Epic Games Store, Epic Raises $1B for Metaverse, Could Apple/Google Kill F2P?
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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How War Robots Grossed $500M with Vladimir Krasilnikov, CPO at Pixonic
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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The Dos and Don'ts of Cross-Platform Development with Maxwell Zierath
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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TWIG 127: Clash of Clans 3 New Games, Tencent Timi $10B in 2020, Manticore Raises $100M
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Growth Triggers #8 Latest ATT Drama, Digital Turbine's Shopping Spree, Working with Celebrities and the Most Expensive Ad
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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TWIG #126: Rocket League Mobile, League of Legends Wild Rift, & Tencent Regulatory Compliance
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Game Publishing on Roblox | Gamefam CEO Joe Ferencz
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Scaling So Far with Savage Game Studios
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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TWIG #125: Mr. Beast VC Fund, IronSource SPAC, 2K Tiger Woods, Discord $10B+, NYT Games Biz ft. Dean Takahashi from GamesBeat
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Danger of Integrated Studios + Ad Networks: Applovin and Zynga
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Growth Triggers #7 China's Tech Giants' Attempt to Circumvent IDFA, Our take on AppLovin's S1, Is Clubhouse a Fad?
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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TWIG #124: Star Wars to Marvel -> Licensed IP, Applovin S1, Roblox: Dawn of the Metaverse
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Building Games For A Female Audience | Ft. Renata Caldani, Joana Marques, and Maryna Iaremenko
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Game Biz #1: Future of Game Industry M&A Ft. Chris Petrovic, Eric Kress, J Kim
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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TWIG 123: Fortnite Acquires Fall Guys Dev Mediatonic, Ubisoft NFT Game, and Dream Games Secures $50M
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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How to Turnaround a Company with Offer Yehudai, President of Fyber
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Growth Triggers #6 The Right Way to Build Your Game Marketing Team
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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TWIG #122: PUBG New State, Genshin Impact Dev Costs, Google Stadia Problem?, & Spotify Remote Work
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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How to Market Mobile Games in 2021 with Kieran O’Leary, VP Marketing at Rovio
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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TWIG #121: BlizzCon, Zynga accelerates, Rovio's financials and VALHEIM!
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Growth Triggers #5 Why AppLovin and Zynga are Building Content Fortresses
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Embracer Group: Strategy, Outlook, and Focus on the Long-term | Kenshi Arasaki (ATA), Ken Go (DECA), and Randy Pitchford (Gearbox), Lars Wingefors (Embracer),
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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TWIG #120: Supercell on 2nd Decade, Zynga Ad Network, Bad Robot Entering Games, Microsoft on Future of Games
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Learnings from Building My Dream Team with Sophie Vo, Studio Lead at Voodoo
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Future of PC Games | David Brevik (OG!), Sean Haran (Gearbox), Tim Morten (Frost Giant)
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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TWIG #119: EA Buys Glu, AppLovin Buys Adjust, Embracer Buys Gearbox, and Predictions (Shooters, Marketing)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Seriosly Unconventional Growth with Philp Hickey, EVP of Brand & Marketing
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Hit Roblox Developers Share Their Secrets!
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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TWIG #118: Epic Games Store Review, Google Stadia Shuts down Internal Studios, & Gambling Apps on Google Play
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Going Public with Anton Gauffin, CEO of Huuuge Games
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Playtika IPO | Growth???, Risks, and Future!
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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*FULL UPDATED* How to Effectively Deploy Consumer Insights
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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TWIG #117: New PUBG Mobile Game, Tencent Gonna Buy EA or Take-Two?, Vicarious -> Blizzard, Strategy and Sports Predictions!
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Ad Revenue & Monetization Trends in 2021 | Post-IDFA Impact
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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TWIG #116: Playtika's $11B IPO, Star Wars' IP given out like candy, Hypercasual and RPG predictions
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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The Secrets of Lily's Garden - Lessons from Perhaps the Most Underrated CMO in the Industry
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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TWIG #115: Roblox $29.5B, Cyberpunk WTF?, Diablo Immortals, Puzzle Game Genre Predictions!
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Growth Triggers #4 Mobile Games Marketing in 2021
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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TWIG #114: Happy New Years! | Best of 2020
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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What do Successful Game Projects Have in Common?
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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2020 in Review Mirror - Trend Analysis and Forecasts with Sensor Tower & AppsFlyer
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Growth Triggers #3 IDFA Depreciation for the Product Leads
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Game Industry M&A: Chris Petrovic (ex-Zynga SVP) on Keys to Success! Who's Next?
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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TWIG #113: MTG Acquires Hutch, Wild Rift Expanding to Europe, Zynga's Rollic Acquires Onnect
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Helsinki the Capital of Mobile Games
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Growth Triggers #2 Fake Ads Post IDFA and When to Build a Brand for Your Game
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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TWIG #112: Genshin Impact = $400M in 2 Months on Mobile, EG7 Acquires Daybreak, Roblox Future in China!!!
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Why Israel's Gaming Ecosystem is One the Best in the World with Gigi Levy-Weiss
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Growth Triggers #1 How Apple Played Epic, Platform Wars and the Marketability Loop
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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TWIG #111: Lilith's Farlight 84 Battle Royale Shooter, Fortnite Subscriptions, and Supercell Shuts Down Hay Day Pop!
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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TWIG #110: Embracer Group Acquires 13 Studios, Apple 15% Fee Cut, Roblox IPO
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Marketability Will Make or Break Your Game
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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TWIG #109: Argument for Simpler Games, Apple M1 Impact to Games, Virtual Influencers - Rehash ATVI to Mobile
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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East vs. West - How to Rival Chinese Game Publishers
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Riot's Valorant - The Origin Story
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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TWIG #108: Zynga, Glu, and EA Quarterly Financial Results
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Recruiting During a Pandemic
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Scaling a Games Company | How to Win Day 1? Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, Kristian Segerstrale
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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TWIG #107: WSJ: China May Be Spying On You, Scopely Raises $340M, Game Pass and Indies, and Activision Blizzard More Franchises to Mobile
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Love Bros: How to Stop Wasting Time! Improve Meetings, OKRs, and More!
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Art Director for Video Games | Ron Ashtiani
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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TWIG #106: Problem With Tech Monopolies, Stadia Creative Director OOPS!, and Facebook's Cloud Gaming
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Product Implications of IDFA Deprecation | Andre Cohen + Niklas Herriger
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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TWIG #105: Unity Publishing... WTF?, Playtika Files for IPO, Among Us Blowing Up!, How Discord Won!
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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How to Plan Content for Live Ops | Barak David, COO Murka; Drew Levin, Lead PM Zynga; Jeff Witt, Co-founder Storm8 and Funzio
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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TWIG #104: Amazon Can't Win at Games, Genshin's Massive Impact, and WOW Expansion Delayed (Yawn!)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Getting Hypercasual with Gamejam's CEO, Christian Calderon
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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TWIG #103: Roblox To Go Public, Among Us Drives Discord Usage, Cyberpunk Crunch
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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How to Grow and Prosper like the King
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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TWIG #102: Epic vs. Apple UPDATE!. Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime Starts Dreamhaven, Playco $1B Valuation, and Amazon's Luna Cloud Gaming Service
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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TWIG #101: New Call of Duty Warzone Mobile, Micro$oft Acquires Bethesda, Stillfront Acquires Nanobit, and Sony vs. Microsoft Nextgen Wars
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Unity's IPO | Growth, Risks, and Valuation!
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Genre & Great Games with Facebook Gaming and Game Refinery
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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TWIG #100: Lessons, Biggest News, and The Future!
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Writing for Games Done Right! | With Susan O'Connor (Tomb Raider, Bioshock, Far Cry 2)
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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Launching and Scaling a Mid-Core Game in 2020
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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TWIG #99: Epic's Plans for World Domination, India bans PUBG Mobile, New Switch Coming 2021, and Ubisoft: PS5 Not Backwards Compatible with PS3 and Lower
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Making a Hit Mobile Match-3 Game | GenJoy's David vs. Goliath Story
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Epic Lawsuit vs Apple & Google | Expert Legal Opinion
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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TWIG #98: Facebook Abandoned IDFA, Unity IPO, COD Cold War $70, Risks of Market Research
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Rant-cast: Eric Kress Unchained | IDFA Apocalypse, Why Tech Companies Fail at Games, Geopolitical Shenanigans
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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IDFA - What You Need to do Yesterday
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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TWIG 97: Amazon Sucks at Games, Take-Two Acquires Playdots, Tencent Stake in Voodoo, Game Creators Burned Out
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Starting a New Game Studio | 3 CEOs Who Raised Millions Talk Funding!
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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TWIG #96: Next-Gen State of Industry, Apple/Epic Can't Lose!, and Wildlife Scores $120M
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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How to Build the Amazon of Game Companies!
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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TWIG #95: Apple Blocks xCloud and Stadia, Zynga Acquires Rollic for $168M, and Why Indies Struggle on Switch eShop!
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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UA Coffee Talk: Mobile Marketing for Card Games
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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TWIG #94: Halo Infinite, EA Best June Quarter in History, and Blizzard Shows off Diablo Immortal
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Genre-Defining Gaming Studios - with Michail ‘Mishka’ Katkoff
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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TWIG #93: Ragnarok of M&A (from IDFA Deprecation), RPG Personas Debate!, Over 1/2 of Kids Playing Roblox, Microsoft Showcase
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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The Economy of the Metaverse | Tim Sweeney CEO of Epic Games!
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Game Industry M&A Outlook | Who's Buying, Who Will Be Acquired Next?
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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TWIG #92: Microsoft xCloud Launch, China Removes Supercell's HayDay + 2.5K other games, Glu Reloads for Acquisitions
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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IDFA - Everything You Ought to Know with Eric Seufert & Yevgeny Peres
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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TWIG #91: Sony Invests $250M in Epic Games, Why Tencent is Buying Leyou (aka Le-YOWWW!), Mobile Games Broke Records in Q2, Ubisoft Event!
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Sharing the Secrets: How Ludia Successfully Re-targets and Re-engages its Players
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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TWIG #90: PUBG Mobile Doubles LT Rev to $3B, Apple Arcade Strategy Shift, and Amazon and Google Bad at Games!
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Online Services for Multiplayer PVP Games | Pragma.gg
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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TWIG #89 metoo and Abuse in the Industry, IDFA Apocalypse, AAA Unsustainable, Nintendo Chills?, Pokemon Unite! And More!
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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UA Coffee Talk: Death of Performance Marketing- The Debate!
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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TWIG #88: Microsoft Shutting Down Mixer -> Facebook Gaming, EA Game Slate, Apple Platform Fees, & Epic Offering $750M at $17B Valuation
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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UA Coffee Talk: The Changing UA Marketing Role!
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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TWIG #87: Activision and Selena Gomez Trademark/IP Claims in Games, Valorant Performance, Amazon of Gaming Companies
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Data Science in Game Studios | Ft. Tilting Point's Andre Cohen
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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TWIG #86: More Zynga Acquires Peak, Glu Prices Public Offering, and UA Deep-Dive
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Ad Creatives Framework: Optimization Deep Dive (Matej Lancaric)
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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TWIG #84: Zynga acquires Peak and the team cuts through PR nonsense
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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UA Coffee Talk: Mobile Marketing Under Crisis!
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May 29, 2020 |
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Creative Trends for the Mobile Gaming Industry with Steven Chard, CEO of Luna Labs
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May 27, 2020 |
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TWIG #83: Amazon's Attempt at LOL Shooter, Ubisoft Sues Apple/Google over Siege Clone, Future of Game Conferences
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May 25, 2020 |
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Manticore: The Next Big Creator Platform? Founders Frederic Descamps and Jordan Maynard
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May 21, 2020 |
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TWIG #82: Supercell vs. AppLovin: Clash of Cultures! Lessons vs. Legacy
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May 18, 2020 |
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TWIG #81: Supercell | 10 Years of Excellence
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May 13, 2020 |
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Your Analytics Are Not Even Scratching the Surface
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May 10, 2020 |
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TWIG #80: XBOX Game Pass 10M Subs, Super Evil Announces Catalyst Black, XBOX Series X - Games Could Be Delayed!
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May 05, 2020 |
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Social Casino 2020 | Genre Outlook
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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TWIG #79: Supercell Battle Pass Talk, Three Questions to Level Up Battle Pass, Travis Scott Fortnite, and Epic Gives In to Google!
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Survive and Thrive: Demiurge Studios and Marvel Puzzle Quest (> $100M Revenue)
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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TWIG #78: Facebook Takes on Twitch, Valve Success?, PS5 Limited Release, Is Fortnite the next Metaverse?
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Biggest Lessons from Gaming with Jori Pearsall (ex Scopely, GREE, Google)
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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After Crisis: Games & Life In a Post COVID-19 World
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Improve Marketability, Save Millions
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Markets #2: Latin America | With Jam City and Lockwood Publishing
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Impact of Coronavirus on Mobile with App Annie
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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TWIG #77: Riot's Teamfight Tactics Surpasses 4.5M on Mobile, Amazon Enters Gaming, XBOX Series X, The Kick-Ass Founding Team
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Secrets to ROBLOX's Success! | Matt Curtis VP Developer Relations
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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TWIG #76: Epic Games Publishing!, CPI Decline Benefits Mobile Game Companies, and Forte x Blockchain
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Managing Marketing Spend Through a Recession (and Depression) with Eric Seufert and Brian Murphy
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Might & Magic Chess Royale | Lead Game Designer Damien Yvray (Ubisoft Paris Mobile)
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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TWIG #75: Supercell's Hay Day Pop, Scopely Raises Another $200M, Tencent $$$
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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TWIG #74: Coronavirus Impact on Gaming!, China Game Approvals, Exclusives Ending?, and COD Warzone going Nutz!
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Elite Game Developers vs. Deconstructor of Fun
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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TWIG #73: Riot's Valorant Monetization, iOS Games in China Require License, and MZ's Crystalborne
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Stillfront Acquires Storm8 For $300M | Talk with COO Alexis Bonte
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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TWIG #72: Why GDC Canceled, Word! Games, EPIC Calls Out SuperData Fortnite Figures, and Roblox Raises $150M
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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TWIG #71: Fortnite Chapter 2, Facebook VTA, Bethesda Pulls Out of GeForce Now, and Call of Duty Battle Royale
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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TWIG #70: Supercell CEO "My Take On 2019", Unity IPO, Tim Sweeney, and Rovio Tumbles
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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3 HUGE Changes Coming to Unity | Implications for PMs and Execs
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Roblox Approach to Kids Safety with Laura Higgens Head of Digital Civility
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Markets #1: Japan | With Dr. Serkan Toto
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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TWIG 69: Elodie Games Raises $5M, Microsoft Delusional on Cloud, Call of Duty Players Spend More After Season Pass and Loot Boxes Removed
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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TWIG 68: Bytedance Takes on Tencent, Nintendo Mobile Hit $1B, EA $1B on MTX, Garena Acquires Dauntless, Ubi Acquires Kolibri
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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State of Mobile 2020 with AppAnnie - Mobile Gaming Health, Trends, and Top Games from 2019
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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TWIG 67: M&A Mania! FoxNext, Storm8, and Funcom Oh My!!!
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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UA Coffee Talk: All About LTV
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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TWIG 66: Game Over for GameStop, Might & Magic Chess Royale, Epic Games Store Disappointment and a Ton of Updates
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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TWIG 65: The Steam Shit Sandwich, Miniclip Acquires Ilyon, XBOX Series X No Exclusives, and New Playstation Exec!
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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TWIG 64: New Switch, Vince Zampella Leads EA DICE LA, Google Buys Typhoon Studio for Stadia, and Top Soft Launch Games!
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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TWIG #63: 2019 Year in Review - The Biggest Games, Winners, Losers, and Trends!
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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TWIG #62: Kongregate's Acquisition Strategy, Roblox's Biggest Games of All Time, and Riot's New Publishing Label
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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UAC #1: Ad Creatives Optimization | User Acquisition Coffee Talk
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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TWIG #61: Why D7 ROAS May Be Bad, What's Next After Facebook VO, and Updates on New XBOX!
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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TWIG #60: Bunch Video Chat for Mobile (We Talk with CEO and Head of BD) and Wildlife Valued at $1.3B!
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Kolibri's Approach to New Game Development | Secrets to the Success of Idle Miner Tycoon
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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TWIG #59: Top 1% of Publishers Drive 80% of Downloads (or not?) and Why NPS Sucks!
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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TWIG #58: $40M Raise for N3twork - Should We Be Worried? and Tencent's Timi Studio Expanding West - Not A Level Playing Field!
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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TWIG #57: Ninja/Shroud No Impact on Twitch, Epic Games Launcher, & Stadia Flop City
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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TWIG #56: DECA Games Buys 4 Games from GREE and Super Evil Megacorp Hands Vainglory to Rogue Games
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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TWIG #55: Scopely Raises $200M and Zynga Has Record Blow-out Quarter!
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Apple Arcade: Service Analysis and Future Prospects
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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TWIG #54: Ghost Recon Breakpoint's Spectacular Bomb and Google Stadia Update!
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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TWIG #53: Challenging Riot's Paul Bellezza on Riot's Massive New Game Slate Announcement!
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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How to Transform Company Culture | Riot 1 Year Later with Angela Roseboro, Chief Diversity Officer @ Riot
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Oct 19, 2019 |
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TWIG #52: Deconstructing Blizzard President's Interview
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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TWIG #51: Future of Mobile Growth Teams, UA Mobile Bust, and Call of Duty Mobile!
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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TWIG #50: PUBG Mobile, Mario Kart Tour, and Call of Duty Oh My!
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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TWIG #49: Subscriptions The New Weapon in Game Monetization and NBCUniversal Shuts Down Game Publishing
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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How to Prepare for Your Next Job | Protecting Yourself as an Employee
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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TWIG #48: The Glory Days of Social Casino Are Over!
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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TWIG #47: League of Legends Mobile Game and Telltale's Controversial Revival
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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TWIG #46: Supercell Soft Launches New Game Rush Wars (and more Archero!)
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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#14 How Archero Shot to the Top ft. Joe Kim, Abhimanyu Kumar, Florian Ziegler, and Eva Grillova
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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TWIG #45: Respawn CEO apologizes for devs & Sony Acquires Insomniac
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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#13 Super Scale With No Strings Attached with Ivan Trancik
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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TWIG #44: Tencent doubling down on Season Pass, Ninja Jumps to Mixer!
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Aug 24, 2019 |
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#12 Former Publishing CEO Spills the Beans with Klaas Kersting
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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#11 Behind Tilting Point's $132M War Chest with President Samir El Agili
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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#10 Scopely's path to $1B with Co-CEO Javier Ferreira
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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TWIG #43: EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, and Glu Earnings Recap and Outlook!
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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TWIG #42: Disney Should Buy This Games Company...
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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TWIG #41: Exploitative Game Publishing Deals and Tinder Bypasses Play Store!
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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TWIG #40: Subscriptions Are The Future of App Monetisation
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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TWIG #39: Google Stadia, Game Over???
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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TWIG #38: "EA Needs Mobile Gaming Help"
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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TWIG #37: Inside The Esports Bubble
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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TWIG #36: The E3 Recap & Rumours
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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TWIG #35 Why the King's CEO is Stepping Down
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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#9 "I lost my job. What next?" with Joseph Kim
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May 31, 2019 |
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TWIG #34: Mario Kart and League of Legends Rush Into Mobile
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May 29, 2019 |
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TWIG #33 Epic continues to absorb PC gaming exclusives
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May 20, 2019 |
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TWIG #32 Zynga, EA, Activision, Glu - how is it REALLY going in Q2
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May 10, 2019 |
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TWIG #31 The Truth About Hypercasual Games
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May 02, 2019 |
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#8 Why AB Tests Fail and How to Improve Them
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May 01, 2019 |
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TWIG #30 20 Mobile Games that have made more than $1 Billion
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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TWIG #29 Apple’s Giant Bet on the Future of Mobile Gaming
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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TWIG #28 Lets Talk About Snapchat's Investment into Mobile Gaming
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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TWIG #27 Apple Arcade and Google Stadia Face Backlash
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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TWIG #26 User Acquisition and Systematic Growth with Eric Seufert
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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TWIG #25 Nintendo Wants to Tone Down Microtransactions on Mobile
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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TWIG #24 Why APEX Legends Is Obviously Not The Next 'Fortnite'
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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TWIG #23 Supercell CEO's Blog Post - Something You May Have Missed...
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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TWIG #22 Zynga proclaims ‘turnaround is now complete’
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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TWIG #21 The Big Breakup and the New Suitor
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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TWIG #20 Why Activision and EA have dropped over 40 percent
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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TWIG #19 Reviewing the Top Predictions for 2019
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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#7 How to Turbo Charge your Ad Monetization
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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TWIG #18 Will the Epic Games Store Crush Steam?
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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TWIG #17 Who Will Become the Netflix of Games?
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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TWIG16: Jam City + Disney = ?
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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TWIG #15 Diablo on Mobile - a Sure Hit or a Giant Miss?
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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TWIG #14 Deconstructing Glu Mobile's New Strategy
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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TWIG #13 Should Ubisoft Acquire Zynga?
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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TWIG #12 Who Will Buy Zynga
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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TWIG #11 Nintendo vs. Zynga
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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TWIG #10 Deconstructing the Fall of Telltale Games
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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TWIG #9 The Present and the Future of Esports
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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TWIG #9 The Present and the Future of Esports
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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TWIG #8: Fortnite’s Day in the Sun May Be Over
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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TWIG #7: Supercell's Brawl Stars Releases Globally After All?
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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#6 Deconstructing Sexism in Games Industry
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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TWIG #6 - Will Esports Save Clash Royale?
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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TWIG #5
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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TWIG #4
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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TWIG #3
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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TWIG #2
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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This Week in Games #1
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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#5 Working With BIG Entertainment IPs on Mobile
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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#4 Battle Royale Games - Everything You Ought To Know
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May 02, 2018 |
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#3 Influencer Marketing - What You Need to Know Right Now
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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#2 Leading and Managing Game Designers
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Nov 06, 2017 |
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#1 Mobile Publishing - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Jul 11, 2017 |