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[Business] Mobile Games: from iOS to Facebook/Zynga/Farmville to King/Candy Crush

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A lot of mobile gaming casual game companies came out of the Nordic countries Denmark Finland Sweden and it's kind of weird until you figure out the cultural angle to this which is the demo scene. You really had an era starting around the launch of in-app purchase and extending kind of you know into the second decade of the 21st century where you really had the rise of these super developers. There was a real Nordic bent to the mobile phone industry because of the dominance of Nokia during the feature phone era but also in parallel I think you had this very endemic computer entertainment gaming and music scene that was known locally as the demo scene going back to pre-mobile times.

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