Value Multiplier
Is Machine Zone really worth $9 billion?
Lawrence W. Abrams has some figures
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Jon Jordan
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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
No Longer Solo
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes adds guilds, raids, and 'shoots first' Han Solo character
Force multipler
Bolt On
CMGE bought for $1 billion by a Chinese auto parts company
Another characteristic deal
Stream Everything
Kamcord raises $10 million to expand its video streaming goal from games to all apps
All the world's a stream
Better Data
The Specialist Works launches its new TV for Apps tracking service with Elex's Clash of Kings
Tracking it
India's The Place
Chasing the next billion gamers, growth hacker Pascal Clarysse joins Nazara Games
A digital tiger arises
Watch This
Growing strongly, video ads now account for 35% of game UA spend on Facebook
Leading the pack
Just Letting You Know
Nordeus releases open source push notification system Pushkin
Free for all
2 Games In One
mNectar hooks up with A Thinking Ape to test rewarded playable video ads
Ad and play
A Who's Who
Armada Interactive raises $3 million to give core mobile gaming a hard push
Remedy, BioWare, Crytek vets reboot
Cultural Differences
The Chinese mobile games market: bigger but still different
Winding roads
Deeper Knowledge
Robin Hunicke to keynote Indie Dev Day at Develop:Brighton 2016
Talking heads
Rolling On
One year on: How Yahtzee With Buddies scored high on the top grossing charts
Niche licence, strong sales
Rise Higher
HyprMX promotes Dan Laughlin to SVP, General Manager
Good work
Hitting Big
Nexon invests in NAT Games as it preps Korean smash HIT for global launch
From Korea to the world
Ex-exchange
iDreamsky set to confirm NASDAQ delisting
Going private
Another War
FTUE: War and Order
Camel Games' latest
Hot Stuff
Seriously signs up Ariana Grande and YouTubers to push Best Fiends' #AppsforEarth promotion
Attractive proposition
Celebrating The Ecosystem
Who are some of Apple's favourite game developers? Earth knows...
Apps for Earth highlights some faves
New Job
Kabam's Chris Petrovic now SVP at Zynga
New business challenges
Wide & Deep
Genius: Why Clash Royale is for losers
(P.S. We're all losers)
Smart Time?
Paul Virapen on why smartwatch gaming, not VR, is the big, new opportunity for Wooga
Wrist over head
Crowned
Monetizer Mavens on the simple, sophisticated, genius, and extremely aggressive gacha monetisation (and retention) of Clash Royale
Smart moves
Looking Ahead
Part funded by Mixi and COLOPL, GREE announces its $12 million VR investment fund
Western focus for Japanese outfit
Bigger Brands
Animoca Brands raises $5 million for content and IP acquisitions
In expansion mode
Another Puzzle
After four years and 54 million downloads, has $1 billion game Puzzle & Dragons finally peaked?
Does GungHo's cash cow have more to give?
All In Hand
Keep calm and carry on racing: Zynga VP Chris Plummer now leading CSR Racing dev Boss Alien
Boss Alien in safe hands
What's Next?
Updated: With CSR Racing 2 still in soft launch, studio boss Jason Avent leaves
Boss Alien loses boss
Outside The Box
Her Story is brilliant but the UK game industry needs to gets to grips with games-as-a-service to have global significance
Time to break out of niche
Tale Of 2 Publishers
Nexon passes on Turbo's Super Senso, leaving GungHo to sign publishing deal
All change
Rewarded Action
As Unity highlights the power of rewarded video ads, ex-Tapjoy exec Paul Bowen joins as VP for Unity Ads
Different incentive
New Way To Stream
BlueStacks' Twitch integration provides wire-free Android game streaming from your PC
Open for all
Tanks Royale
FTUE: League of War: Mercenaries
GREE re-enters the battle
Prime Asset
Veteran Apple game dev Pangea Software for sale to the 'right buyer'
Brian Greenstone retires from games
Turnaround
Rovio's game sales up again to $161 million, but company makes loss in 2015
#MakeRovioGreatAgain
Data Beyond Games
Updated: Machine Zone spins out big data tech RTplatform as separate division
What Gabe Leydon did next
Solid Session
Mark Cerny to interview Hideo Kojima at Develop:Brighton 2016
Fireside chat as keynote
Luck Of The Roll
Netmarble combines Everyone's Marble with Disney characters, announcing its Disney Magical Dice virtual board game
Korean publisher steps up
Funny Business
US comic Kevin Hart is 'doing a Kardashian' with mobile game in the works
Lionsgate signs long-term deal
Core Centre
Capcom consolidations all mobile operations to aggressive focus on own IP games
Beeline Interactive dissolved
Mad Max Frozen
FTUE: Winterstate
A cocktail of ice and explosions
Trump That
GameDuell switches focus from casual to cross-platform card and board games
Shuts down internal studio
Fast Rising
Goodgame Studios hits 300 million players across PC and mobile
Goodgame Empire leads the way
Level Up
10 years of Pocket Gamer: Gamevil's Kyu Lee on moving from Skipping Stone to core RPG success
Back in the days of BREW
No April Fool
Prepare for 'interesting conversations' as Nintendo's Miitomo social app goes live on 31 March
First attempt at mobile success
Most Read
Reasons to join Nordeus, Gameloft's future vision, Windows 10 and GDC trends
Last week's hits
Jam Tomorrow
Gameloft attempts to fight off Vivendi, announcing 2018 sales target of $390 million
The plan for 2016-2018
The Long View
10 years of Pocket Gamer: Thomas Nielsen on the rise of a game console in every pocket
From Sola Rola to HTML5 slots
Most Read
Why is Mickey crossing the road, GDC learnings, and how screen orientation matters
Last week's hits
Power Of Rewards
How Ubisoft worked with MoPub to add rewarded videos and double LTV
Another string to the publisher's revenue bow