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Pixel Flow and the Rise of Sort Puzzles
What Pixel Flow’s rise says about puzzle mechanics, UA creativity, and the next hybrid-casual wave.
Meta Is Back in the Game. Here's What That Actually Means.
What Meta’s return to gaming says about the future of attribution, creative scale, and UA teams.
Hay Day With a To-Do List: How Focus Friend Cracked Productivity Retention
How Focus Friend used game-style progression to crack productivity retention.
The Screw Puzzle Gold Rush
The design evolution that turned Screw Puzzles into a $75M monetization engine.
Supercell: Still Shipping, Still Learning, Still Compounding
Supercell CEOs annual newsletter is a masterclass of both operations and communications
Pixel Flow: The Publisher's Dream
Deep dive of Pixel Flow and it’s success of making $500K+ a day
AI in Game Art: Art Director's Perspective
The evolution of art direction, the integration of AI in creative processes, and the balance between creativity and business acumen
Sort Puzzles: How a New Subgenre is Born
A deep dive into how Sort Puzzles evolved into a major hybridcasual puzzle subgenre.
State of Mobile 2026: 9 Trends That Matter
We unpack the biggest mobile app trends 2026 and mobile gaming trends 2026.
Building Forever Franchises: 13 Years of Lessons from Zynga's EVP Studios, Yaron Leyvand
How Zynga built and builds games that never die
The Post-Block Blast Playbook
How Block Blast scaled with clarity-first and what comes next
8 Reasons Most UA Strategies Fail as they Scale
Why UA performance often collapses right when it looks like you’ve cracked growth
Hiring as a Competitive Advantage
Great teams aren't hired. They're built, one courageous, uncomfortable decision at a time.
12 Gaming Predictions for 2026
Mobile, Console, Steam, China, AI, Sony, Xbox, GTA6... 12 bold and data backed predictions.
Slipknot's Co-Founder: Building Games Like You Build a Band
Why great games (and great bands) are built by people who actually give a sh*t
(VOTING OPEN) Golden TWIG 2025: the Most Honest Awards in the Industry
The Most Honest Awards in Gaming Industry
From Space Ape to Duolingo via Supercell: Simon Hade on Building, Pivoting, and the Price of Being a Founder
Simon Hade's journey from co-founding Space Ape through Supercell and eventually into arms of Duolingo is worth hearing.
Hard Truths About Co-Founders, Capital, and Competition
AppCharge went from zero to $500M+ in gaming transactions, but the real story is three years of grinding, failed funding rounds, and two best friends learning to disagree without breaking
I Analyzed Clash Royale’s Marketing. Here’s What I Found.
So was it all product or was marketing behind the resurrection?