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A decade of AppMagic data says the money moved out of games and into everything else on your phone.
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Old games are not fading out. Collecting, emulation debates and nostalgia economics are keeping them at the center of gaming life.
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When a studio pulls the plug, the people who run games for time are often the ones who understand the code best.
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