In this week's TWIG we discuss:

Welcome to guest host Kenny Liu from Riot Games and author of the really great industry newsletter Kliuless: https://tinyletter.com/kliuless

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Newcomer Habby shot up out of nowhere with Archero which made over $35M in net IAP revenue over its first 3 months. 

Find out how Archero was able to achieve big success and how it could have been designed even stronger in this episode's podcast.

Also, check out the original Deconstructor of Fun blog post covering the game by Manyu and Eva.

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Welcome to the final episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile.

In case you missed the previous episode:

Mobile Publishing #2: Behind Tilting Point's $132M War Chest with President Samir El Agili

Mobile Publishing #3: Former Publishing CEO Spills the Beans with Klaas Kersting

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In this episode of This Week in Games we discuss: #1. Tencent doubling down on Season Pass, #2. Ninja quickly getting 1M subs on Mixer, #3. Roblox Surpassing Minecraft with 100 MAU, #4. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, require loot box disclosure, and #5. Apex Legends Forums Furious as Devs Call Players "Ass-Hats" and "Freeloaders"

Today we're joined by guest host, Josh Burns from Digital Dev Connect!

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Welcome to the third episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile. 

In case you missed the previous episode:

Mobile Publishing #2: Behind Tilting Point's $132M War Chest with President Samir El Agili

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Welcome to the second episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile. 

If you missed our last episode with Scopley’s Co-CEO Javier Ferreira, I encourage you listen to it after this episode. 

In this episode we had a pleasure to talk to Tilting Point’s President and CPO, Samir El Agili. We talked about the company’s unique progressive model to free-to-play games publishing, discussed how Tilting Point is organised, how Samir sees the future of mobile publishing and - shed some light on that massive $132M user acquisition war chest the company has been flashing around. 

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Welcome to the first episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile. 

In this episode Scopely's Co-CEO, Javier Ferreira, dives deep into the company's product strategy, organisation and team structure as well as talks about the company's technology platform. We also discuss Scopley's mindset to launching new games and their attitude towards both original and IP-games.   

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This week "J Money" Kim, Eric Kress, and Jeff Cohen from Stephens break down the latest info from earnings calls from public companies EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, and Glu. 

What happened? What did we learn? And what is the outlook for these companies?

You can also listen to Eric gloat about his call on Glu. 

We'll be doing these podcasts quarterly after every earnings period.

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In this episode of This Week In Games we discuss:

#1 What Video Game Company Should Disney Buy (That Isn’t Activision Blizzard)?

#2 Pokémon Masters hands-on

#3 Facebook migrating Instant Games away from Messenger