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- ↑ "Hyper Casual Game: Mobile Gaming's Most Profitable Genre". Udonis. 2020-04-27. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- ↑ "Report: Mobile growth has slowed, mobile revenue still high (EEDAR)". GameDaily.biz. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
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- ↑ "Goldman Sachs invests $200 mln in France's Voodoo -source". Reuters. 2018-05-28. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
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