It's Bender Time
Wooga gets into the IP game with the announcement of Futurama: Game of Drones
Small screen heroes
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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
Make It Social
Video: Palringo on the potential of gaming with mobile messaging
Elina Arponen explains all
Beyond China
With a $330 million investment fund, Youzu is going global
Mark Chen is looking for developers
Never Stop Pitching
Launchasarus wins Big Indie Pitch at Apps World Europe 2015
Last event of the year
Unified For Roi
Singular highlights its reach through 250 ad networks, claiming $1 billion client spend in 2015
Global approach
Testing Testing
Chinese testing outfit Testbird signs IGS partnership for Korea and beyond
Deal inked at G-Star 2015
Totally X-platform
Vungle spreads video ad loving with support for Windows 10
All devices
Watch This
With over 1 million Twitch viewers a month, Super Evil builds out Vainglory’s eSports potential
Mobile MOBA’s latest trick
Going Cheaper
Following Indian trial, minimum price for Google Play lowered in another 17 countries
Market forces
Stamping Down On Ua
Branch's Content Analytics promises to reduce your UA costs
Optimise the power of your in-app UA content
Brand Multipler
LINE Disney Tsum Tsum hits 50 million downloads
Too cute
Great Ape
Space Ape voted UK's best independent studio
London mobile outfit recognised
Amusing Cash
Ex-Sega president Hayao Nakayama invests in UK super startup The Secret Police
London studio is up and running
Cue Smilies
Futurefly gains more investors, taking its seed round to $3 million
Hope to shake up messaging apps
Best Launch Ever?
How Machine Zone's Mobile Strike launched bigger, better and more globally than Game of War
Factory for success
Future Time
Wooga hires hires WearGa CEO Paul Virapen to kickstart its new wearable dev team
Cupcake Dungeon man now in Berlin
Measured Ambition
We invest in culture not games, says Supercell investor Index Ventures
Longterm focus
Future Shocks
If you’re doing VR now, you’re probably doing it wrong, says Unity’s Helgason
Talking at Slush 2015
Influencers
Why MaxPlay signed up Lindsey Stirling as the face of endless runner Pop Dash
Slush gaming panel
What’s Next
We’re ignoring VR to focus on smartwatches, says CEO of casual mobile dev Wooga
Slush’s Future of Games
Raining Success
Futureplay's Farm Away is already generating $0.082 ARPDAU from its incent ads model
Jami Laes is harvesting
Don’t Question It
How Trivia Crack grew into the biggest mobile social game in the world, and is still growing
Maximo Cavazzani takes it to the max
Cart And Horse
What's the correct order of Acquisition, Retention and Monetization for F2P games?
Monetizer Mavens shuffle the pack
New Channel
Following "strong early results", Kenshoo joins Instagram Partner Program
Integrated results
Cash Cow
Summoners War leads Com2uS into a record $27 million profit quarter
RPG keeps rising
Search This
Strange Flavour's incentivised search approach to Apple TV's discovery issues
A little encouragement
Tag Team
Vivid launches publishing business for midcore F2P games with strong PVP features
First games due in 2016
Not A Top Banana
Wrong genre, bad timing: The top grossing performance of Minions Paradise
Yes, we have no bananas
Aggressive Move
NCsoft announces three team US mobile studio Iron Tiger
Plans to be 100-strong in 2016
Local Flavour
ZeptoLab hooks up with Nazara Games to culturalise Cut the Rope for India
Om Nom's travels
Seeing Double
2016 IMGAs add mobile VR category
Another category
Time Will Tell
Almost 7 million Apple Watches shipped
So guestimates Canalys
Open Screen
AppLovin first to announce an SDK for in-app ads on Apple TV
TV is built for video ads
On The Slide
King's relative decline continues with FY15 Q3 sales down 2% to $480 million
Candy Crush matures more
Jackpot
Social casino growth sees Zynga post $3 million profit in FY15 Q3
Beats guidance
What's Next?
Mobile Mavens debate the value of the deal and the future of mobile games in the Activision Blizzard King era
Big boys at play
Good, Bad, Hopeful
What Newzoo, App Annie and IHS think about Activision Blizzard's $5.9 billion King deal
Talking heads
Best Available Deal
Why Activision Blizzard bought King, not Zynga, Glu or Kabam
Big bucks
Takes The Crown
Activision Blizzard to buy King for $5.9 billion
All cash deal will close in Spring 2016
Hello World
What does Miitomo tell us about Nintendo's mobile strategy?
Mobile Mavens on Nintendo's first pass
Early Bird
Big in Japan, now Adways is bringing its $1 CPA pre-registration UA platform PreLaunch.me to the west
Ken Asakura on marketing before launch
Derby Promise
UK super angel Chris Lee invests in UK studio Eight Pixels Square
Dev on the up
Apple Goes Unconsole
Are you buying an Apple TV?
Mobile Mavens debate Apple TV
A New Hope?
Minions Paradise's failure to shine drags EA Mobile's sales down 14% to $124 million
Relying on legacy portfolio
Nation Of Data
If you want the lowdown on the Chinese mobile game industry, this is the whitepaper for you
Graphs galore
Touchdown For Dollars
Is your F2P monetization playbook up-to-speed?
Fuse Powered give some tips
Caution Horse
Nintendo's first mobile game isn't. It's a chat app called Miitomo
Dips toe in the water
Big Boots
Nexon and Respawn unite to bring Titanfall to mobile in 2016
Both invest in US startup Particle City
Time To Harvest
Futureplay prepares to launches its view-to-play revolution with Farm Away!
Fast and simple
Drink Me
First fruit of Animoca's Mattel deal is Ever After High Tea Party Dash
Mad Hatters indeed