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November 5, 2026｜China’s Top 20 WeChat Mini Games by PopularityPuzzles take fourteen of the top twenty spots, while last report’s risers reveal different paths after the climb.Games#games #wechat October 30, 2026｜China’s Top20 WeChat Mini GamesPuzzles gain ground, but rebounds, sudden climbs and recent declines tell different stories.Games#games #wechat October 22, 2026｜China’s WeChat Mini-Game Popularity Top 20Stable leaders and faster turnover among puzzles, with different signals from popularity and spending ranks.Games#games #wechat Piano Games: Their History and Today’s Popular Titles — Console, Mobile and WeChatPiano games share simple inputs, but songs, replay goals and platform habits shape very different experiences.Games#games #music October 14, 2026｜China's WeChat Mini-Game Popularity Top20Stable leaders, four new card and board entries, and different signals from popularity and spending ranks.Games#games #wechat October 8, 2026｜China’s WeChat Mini Game Popularity Top20China’s WeChat mini game Top 20: seven-day trends, thirty-day stability, and popularity versus bestseller ranks as of October 8, 2026.Games#games #wechat Mini games: China made them an industry, Korea opened the door againIn China install-free mini games spread on ads and became an industry on payments; in Korea, where KakaoTalk's first try closed in 2023, Toss, KakaoTalk and One Store reopened the field from 2025; global platforms keep opening and closing theirs one by one.Games#games #platforms Install-free games are a sixth of China's game market — WeChat mini games in 2026Install-free mini-program games earned RMB 31.66 billion in China in the first half of 2026, a sixth of the game market growing three times as fast, and WeChat is now spending to keep players rather than to find new ones.Games#games #wechat No. 1 and a zero-day in the same week — Meta Muse's first three weeksMeta's personal AI agent Muse hit No. 1 on both US app stores within eleven days of its September 8, 2026 launch, in the same week it drew a Mac zero-day, an Amazon shopping block and a report of humans behind its phone calls.AI trends#ai #agents An hour apart on the same day, and 218 daysAnthropic and OpenAI shipped frontier models an hour apart on 22 September 2026; Google has not shipped one in 218 days.AI trends#ai #market Jev, the AI that writes nothingJev picks one of your predefined answers and attaches a probability instead of writing text; a week of outside measurements shows where that is fast and cheap, and where it is not good enough.AI trends#ai #games Where do users come fromAn indie developer was billed for 56 installs and 33 were bots; we have eight apps and the same question, so here is what we do instead of buying installs.Work#growth #ads Why we can't put 'Rubik's' in a cube app's nameRubik's Cube is a registered trademark and both app stores forbid other people's marks in app names, so our cube app is called Cube at a Glance.Work#naming #trademark Why we took React and Babel out of our home pageWhy a one-page studio site was shipping 4.2 MB of JavaScript, and what it ships now.Work#performance #static-site

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