Position And The Puck
Why Larry Abrams thinks it's game over for Kabam
Hard times
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Jon Jordan
Job Title
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About A Pocket Gamer co-founder, Jon is Contributing Editor at PG.biz which means he acts like a slightly confused uncle who's forgotten where he's left his glasses. As well as letters and cameras, he likes imaginary numbers and legumes.
Articles by Jon Jordan
Five Down, One Anticipated
With Rise of Tyrants prepping for launch, Z2Live sunsets legacy titles including Trade Nations
Time to move on
Soft Power
Flaregames supports Nonstop Knight's pet upgrade with Snapchat-sourced $10,000 animal charity giveaway
Supporting the underdog
Trusted Source
Rovio and WG Cells are making the most of GetSocial's high converting Smart Invites
High quality channel
Watch The Uplift
Tapjoy and comScore detail the power of rewarded in-game ads for brands
The right way to advertise
Small Print
What are the legal implications of Pokemon GO's success?
Ryan Garcia ponders the phenomenon
Scaling
Taptica partners with Adways to target Asian mobile gamers
Part of an Asian shift
Find Me If You Can
Lacking organic discovery, 91% of games and apps on App Store are 'zombies'
Adjust crunches some numbers
Go With Friends
Pokemon GO's success is built on friends, so what does that mean for longterm retention?
Can you learn anything from 243 Pokemon GO players in New Zealand?
Watch & Buy
How Twitch helped Clash Royale drive $1.5 million in additional revenue
Synergetic campaigning
Going Global
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius does 5 million downloads outside Japan
International hit
Rocket Fuel
Scopely raises big $55 million Series B round
Greycroft Growth Fund leads the round
Territorial Passings
Chinese Pokemon GO players behaving badly in Japan
They could turn up anywhere
Tighter Targets
Tapjoy adds new ad behavior targeting and A/B testing features
Deeper granularity
Outrageous Outliers
Like Donald Trump, Pokemon GO's impact on mobile gaming is beyond the logic of dodgy statistics
Look beyond
Most Read
Gameloft Helsinki is dead, Rovio Stars isn't, and has Pokemon GO peaked?
Hot topics in the world of mobile games
Pikachu, Stats & Lies
Updated: Pokemon GO: The latest bigger numbers
How big? How fast?
Whole Lotta Catchin' Going On
Did the US hit Peak Pokemon GO on Friday 15 July?
Verto Analytics thinks so
Skewed Distribution
20% of the 106 million US mobile gamers account for 62% of time spent playing
Verto Analytics crunches some numbers
New Blood
Ambitious Spanish dev Codigames raises $1 million
Dungeon Legends and beyond
In The Real World
Pokeballs: All the stupid things Pokemon GO made us do
Silly Season
Jump Higher
Doodle Jump leaps onto eSports bandwagon
Old dog, new tricks
Bits & Pieces
Chinese companies including Qihoo 360 and Kunlun Games buy Opera's consumer businesses for $600 million
Focus for a quick sale
Look At Me
Worth 3 Supercells: SoftBank gets back into the expansion game with $32 billion acquisition of ARM
Indebted Japanese firm spends more
Future Focus
Kabam trims its sails with further San Francisco redundancies
Mindful of costs
Buying Data
Chinese mobile ad platform Mobvista continues its westward expansion buying GameAnalytics
Deal #2
Weather Vs Pikachu
Is Pokemon GO a fad or a billion dollar phenomenon? We won't know until the first snow
The weakness of location games
Dark Side
NSPCC deeply troubled about 'well documented child safety concerns' of Pokemon GO
Think about the kids
Rocket Boost
DAUs up 300%, IAPs up 400%: What happened when MobilityWare fell in love with retention and segmentation
Alex Tarrand on the power of data
Between Worlds
Rewind Wednesday: Niantic Labs' John Hanke on the opportunities for location-based mobile games
The power of position
Big Beast
App Annie reckons Pokemon GO could generate $1 billion a year
Fastest grossing
High Reward, Risk
For unicorn wannabes like Kabam, the mobile games market is now boom or bust
Can you afford a $20 million bet?
Gotta Count Them All
Pokemon Go adds $8 billion to Nintendo's value over the weekend
Market cap up 40%
From 2012
Flashback Thursday: CSR Racing's success demonstrates sophisticated monetisation but where's the gameplay?
Chassis unbalanced
Power Of Playable
How Miniclip doubled CPMs in Agar.io
Growth of playable ads
Another Law
Chinese government announces new personal data regulations for mobile app developers
The trend continues
Best Practices
Are you regularly changing your IAP pricing and taking advantages of international price tiers like the best developers?
Scientific Revenue taps into developer intelligence
On The Move
Evening and weekend studio Swiftmill hopes to accelerate App Store success with 12 games in 12 months
Monthly cadence
Retention Driver
How do your push notification metrics compare to industry benchmarks?
You could do better
Going Home
Sky-mobi is the latest Chinese NASDAQ-listed game company to delist
CEO Michael Tao Song offers MBO
From The Top
Why the world's "least powerful CEO" has never been more powerful
Implications for company culture
More Players, More Taxes
Supercell CEO explains thinking behind "very long term" Tencent deal
Ilkka Paananen on his second strategic investor in as many years
Guessing Game
Combined Tencent-Supercell could have game sales of $13 billion in 2016
Newzoo turns over the envelope
Get In Gear
Why we need to take off our VR beer goggles, stop worrying about 'proper VR', and focus on 'accessible VR'
Modality vs Intent
More About Less
Game Center isn't dead; just "streamlined"
WWDC session will reveal more
Bigger Pond
With 500,000 downloads, Gear VR fishing game Bait! boasts 50% attach rate
Going global
Faster, Harder
Why Marvel: Contest of Champions ditched Android and went auto-play/pay-to-win in China
Kent Wakeford on Chinese changes
Universal Streams
Apple adds livestreaming to iOS 10
Mobcrush and Flaregames highlight their support
Decluttering
Is it game over for Game Center as Apple removes the app in iOS 10?
Part of the iOS 10 Apple app unbundling
Ea Reunited
Zynga's poaches EA's SVP Mobile Publishing Bernard Kim to head up revenue push
It's the job merry-go-round