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Week That Was: Hearthstone takes the chill off of Blizzard's Q1, King harnesses the power of 143m DAUs, and GungHo's sales up 62%

The past 7 days in bite-sized portions

Week That Was: Hearthstone takes the chill off of Blizzard's Q1, King harnesses the power of 143m DAUs, and GungHo's sales up 62%
By Matthew Diener
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It's tempting, easy even, to look back at the past 129 days of 2014 as a collection of numbers and figures, but doing so risks extreme oversimplification.

Take, for example, King (née King.com)'s performance to date - with quarterly profits of some $127 million and its year-on-year revenue up 194 percent, it’d be easy to think that it’s been having a great time of 2014.

But looking back at the headlines paints a slightly different picture - one marred by a stuttered launch of its IPO and a massive backlash from the press and gaming community over two broad trademark battles.

Of course, those of a pure business mind would argue the numbers are more important than the headlines and - ultimately - this is true, but it's always important try and see the complete picture.

And that's what we're here to help with today. A lot can happen in any given week, so we're on hand to bring you both the numbers and the headlines from the Pocket Gamer Biz week that was.

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Matthew Diener
Matthew Diener
Representing the former colonies, Matt keeps the Pocket Gamer news feed updated when sleepy Europeans are sleeping. As a frustrated journalist, diehard gamer and recovering MMO addict, this is pretty much his dream job.