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Eric Kress www.linkedin.com/in/erickress/
Phillip Black www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-black-economist/
Jen Donahoe www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferdonahoe
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A great Art Director will make your game stand out. They will build a strong art team and inspire both the developers and the executives with their creative vision. A perfect art director is just as a important as your technical director - and one could argue that sometimes Art Director should be the first hire on the team.
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Kshiraj Telang, AD at Moonactive
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New Game Releases Madden, Call of Duty Vanguard, Marvel
Analyzing Riot Games’ move to mobile
Liftoff and Vungle agree to merge into one mobile growth company
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The Problem with VR
App Annie: Mobile games on track to surpass $120B in 2021
Is app store regulation too little, too late?
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Zynga’s Q2 2021 bookings of $712M are up 37% from a year ago
Zynga acquires StarLark studio and Golf Rival game for $525M
FIFA Ultimate Team's new Preview Packs actually boosted loot box sales, EA says
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Blizzard president out in wake of discrimination lawsuit and employee walkout
Tencent tanks after Chinese media calls online gaming‘opium’ as regulatory concerns mount
Riot Games' mobile titles generate over $100m
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How Call of Duty Mobile went from concept to soft-launch. How the game broke all the records with 135M installs during launch month. What caused the turnaround in 2021 after revenues declined post-launch. What is the future of Call of Duty Mobile and Activision Mobile as a whole?
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Chris Plummer, Head of Mobile at Activision
Matt Lewis, VP of Mobile, GM of Call of Duty Mobile
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