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50 shades of grey
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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.
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Does the Vivendi-proposed Gameloft-Ubisoft merger make sense?
Our Mavens talk triple French
Tricolore Triforce
Boosting shareholdings to over 10%, Vivendi reveals plans to force operational convergence with Ubisoft and Gameloft
More to come
Hooked Up
Fishlabs to publish yet-to-be-announced game from Canadian dev Hibernum Creations
Sixth deal
Rocket Fuel
Mobile data outfit Adjust takes funding to $30m as it closes $17 million D round
Data at scale
Number Crunching
Ranking King, Zynga, EA, Gameloft and Glu in terms of their revenue and player reach
Graphing success and failure
Licence Powered
Is The Walking Dead: No Man's Land shooting up the grossing charts?
Tracking Next Games' hot TV licence
Murder House
Storm8 and Hasbro unite their casual audiences in Clue Bingo
Blame Miss Scarlet
French Fancies
Is Vivendi's move the first step in a Ubisoft-Gameloft merger?
Corporate stalking horse
A Soft Launch
Where's the Up gone from Star Wars: Uprising's grossing performance?
Tracking top grossing game performance
Inflationary
Apple increases App Store prices in Australia, Sweden and Indonesia
Foreign exchange balance
Jam Today
Qualcomm gets out of AR, selling Vuforia platform for $65 million
Uncertainty principle
Stepping Up
Anant Bakre promoted to CEO of marketing group iQU
Jochem de Gruyter steps down
Evolving
Mino Games closes $2.2 million funding round and launches casual-core sequel Mino Monsters 2
All systems go again
Different Strokes
Discussing Kabam's use of dynamic IAP pricing in Star Wars: Uprising
Monetizer Mavens are nothing if not dynamic
Just For You
Scientific Revenue claims its personalised Pricing Cloud tech can increase your IAP business by over 20%
Getting dynamic
Maturing?
Can Subway Surfers' 1 billion downloads ever be repeated?
Mobile Mavens celebrate success
Looking Ahead
Microsoft's HoloLens devkit will cost $3,000, available in Q1 2016
AR next
Licence To Succeed?
Glu CEO on why James Bond: World of Espionage is inspired by Game of War's LTV, not GoldenEye 007's gameplay
A significant bet
Big Guns
Marvel Puzzle Quest launches a Hulking great TV ad
Muscling in
Most Read
Unite 2015 Boston learnings, Puzzle & Dragons gets first US TV ad, and Dawn of Steel analysed
Five top stories
Brains Trust
Canadian startup Icejam packs in talent with 4 additions to advisory board
More the merrier
Boost Your Backend
Marmalade launches its Marmalade Cloud Services initiative with GameSparks hookup
All in the cloud
Advertising For More
Updated: Japanese MMORPG Logres of Swords and Sorcery hits 7 million downloads but it's its LTV that makes it top grossing
Pushed by TV campaign
Plug And Play
Cocos SDKBOX adds PlayPhone, Fyber, Bee7 and SOOMLA Grow
Engine battle
Battleground
Epic rolls out second video in its Sense of Presence VR series
Seeing double
Frontfacing
Backflip and Etermax among devs signed up for Amazon's Merch branded t-shirt program
Chestbusters
Building Blocks
Tag Games rolls out ChilliConnect, the second part of its opensource ChilliWorks suite
Plug in backend services
American Tune
GungHo launches first US TV ad for Puzzle & Dragons
Mixing up UA
Time To Get Paid
A dollar for 8 hours of gameplay is tough math for developers
Monetizer Mavens debate Amazon Underground
Quackers
Why a Donald Duck CCG might be a big hit in Scandinavia
Andreas von Koskull interviewed
Give Me Freedom
Is being paid for how long people play your game a good model for developers (or just Amazon)?
Mobile Mavens debate Amazon Underground
Most Read
Instagram's power, Star Wars Uprising analysed and Subway Surfers does a billion
Five top stories
Fast Change
Youzu's successful transition from PC to mobile games
Mark Chen interviewed
Atmospheric
Simogo audio collaborator Jonathan Eng on his working process
Jonathan Eng interviewed
Surf's Up
Subway Surfers breaks 1 billion downloads barrier, boasting 27 million daily active players
Danish success story
Estonian Rocket
Creative Mobile celebrates fifth birthday with 30% growth in 2016 its next goal
It all started with Drag Racing
New Markets
Animoca signs Tencent distribution deal for Armies of Dragons in south east Asia
WeChat's the way
Fruity Fun
Rovio on balancing luck and skill in Nibblers
Teemu Hämäläinen interviewed
How He Dunnit
Her Story dev Sam Barlow on how the innovative detective game found an audience
Sam Barlow interviewed
Development For All
With 1.1 million monthly users, Unity has democratised game development
David Helgason interviewed
New Channel
Preliminarily metrics suggest Instagram is a strong but expensive UA source for mobile games
Good to go
New Growth
StartApp on the power of fast-emerging mobile markets like Russia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia
Sandra Grodensky interviewed
Most Read
Chinese growth in Korea, Lara Croft's athletic aesthetic and Who is A Thinking Ape?
Top stories
Rewind
Friday Flashback: Amazon's Fire TV is more My Little Pony than a gaming Trojan Horse
Contradictory signals
Integrated Solution
YouTube announces native live streaming for Android games
Coming first to Japan
On Fire
Amazon takes Apple TV head-on with refreshed Fire TV including $140 Gaming Edition
New tablets also inbound
Livingroom Superstars
Pocket Gamer's Twitch channel breaks 5 million views milestone
Catch a rising stream
Relative Decline
Is Game of War about to steal Clash of Clans' crown as top grossing US game?
All change
Game Changer
Pixel Toys CEO on the game changing combination of iOS 9's 3D Touch and iPhone 6s' A9 chip
Andy Wafer is fresh from the Apple stage