Speed Machine
IronSource boosts playable ads toolset, launching Luna Elements
Integrates alongside Playable and Replay options
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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
Bid Accepted
Voodoo acquires user-acquisition expert Bidshake
Company launched in January 2020
You Have My Sword
Phoenix Games takes over Knighthood publishing rights from King
Five million downloads since February 2020.
Panel Smarts
PickFu streamlines testing services to provide better feedback
Pre-written poll questions speed the process
Growing Space
Quicksave Interactive raises $1.3 million to scale its HTML5 games
Konvoy Ventures led the round
527 Individual Deals
Game deals in 2021 have reached $49 billion in value so far
Drake Star Partners digs into the data
Data Is Power
Skillz acquires Aarki for $150 million
First move since joining the New York Stock Exchange
Tel Aviv Hold’em
Comunix raises $30 million to scale video chat mobile game Pokerface
Series A was led by March Capital
Discord+
Taking social networks multiplayer: How Noice raised $5 million for its vision
Jussi Laakkonen is back
Most Read
Hot Five: Double Loop and Noice raise millions while Jetpack Joyride returns
Hottest articles of the week
Krongregational
Double Loop raises $8 million for its first game for unconsidered gamers
Takes total funding to $10.5 million
Big Social Beasts
New social gaming platform Noice raises $5 million from Supercell, Unity and Remedy founders
Come on feel the...
Giving Back
Kristian Segerstrale launches Game Founders for Climate 2021
Matching up to $500,000 in climate change funding
Core Values
From book club to YouTube: The rise of Star Stable Online
CEO Johan Sjöberg tells the story
Mini Tencent
Miniclip continues its own mini-rollup, acquiring Supersonic Software
Long time indie sells out
Most Read
Hot Five: Jam City's SPAC float and Google Stadia app hits 3 million downloads
Hottest articles of the week
Jam Tomorrow
Following Ludia deal and SPAC float, Jam City expects $868 million bookings in 2022
Will have $115 million in cash to flash
Alpha To Omega
How Vungle’s M&A activity aligns with its wider platform vision
TreSensa deal is part of the process
New Vision
Reality Clash enables Admix's In-Play tech for advertising in AR
Mobile game demonstrates new monetisation
Most Read
Hot Five: Zynga's Chartboost deal, winning Gree may lose, and Turkish game riding high in the US
Hottest articles of the week
Sweet Numbers
Animoca Brands raises $88,888,888 to fuel blockchain game growth
Values the company at $1 billion
Unforeseen Consequences
Why Gree may win the law but lose its Supercell patent war
Be careful what you wish for
Flying High
Top Roblox game Adopt Me devs launch as Uplift Games
Looking to expand headcount and launch new products
Small Gains
Why Zynga’s Chartboost acquisition is more strategic than reactive
COO Matt Bromberg explains
Most Read
Hot Five: Finnish boom as Metacore gets $180 million and Small Giant $240 million
Hottest articles of the week
Got Your Number
China announces a new playtime logging system for all gamers
CCP tightening the screws
Bigger Cash
Zynga pays Small Giant $240 million in second performance earn-out
And one more payment is due
Testing Times
Post-Covid, Newzoo expects games market to decline (slightly) in 2021
But mobile will rise to $90 billion
Big Deal
Zynga acquires adtech outfit Chartboost for $250 million in cash
Vertical consolidation happening
Ua Expansion
Supercell lends Metacore $180 million to scale Merge Mansion
Mobile puzzle game aiming for the big league
Big Bangs
Call of Duty: Mobile hits 500 million downloads, over a $1 billion revenue
Milestone hit in 19 months
Computer Money
Xsolla integrates VCOIN cryptocurrency to scale the metaverse
IMVU token expands
Most Read
Hot Five: Game M&A high, Apex Legends Mobile in soft launch, and Sega's NFTs
Hottest articles of the week
Ready Portal One?
PortalOne raises $15 million for its mobile game-TV show mash-ups
Launching with reimagined Atari arcade games
Future Now
Bitkraft partners with Delphi Digital to invest in blockchain games
Strategic deal now in place
Standing Tall
Zynga-owned Rollic acquires High Heels dev Uncosoft
Hypercasual M&A
Adtech Boom
Adtech company Moloco raises more funding at a $1 billion valuation
Shinhan GIB led the round
Soaring
Angry Birds 2 breaks $600 million in lifetime revenue
Detail from Q1 2021 financials
Harder Gold
Nexon buys $100 million Bitcoin
Spent 2% of its cash reserves
New Gold
Hasbro sees NFTs as a ‘substantial opportunity’
Brian Goldner is bullish
Review Power
CCP further clamps down on Chinese game releases with new approval process
Game Evaluation and Rating Guidelines now live
The Start
Sega will launch its first NFTs in summer 2021
Partners with Double Jump.Tokyo
Hotting Up
Play Ventures to launch a blockchain games investment fund
Taking a stake in LuneX Ventures
Coin Up
Gamevil gets into blockchain with $28 million Coinone investment
South Korea publisher exploring new opportunities
Building
Hiber's funding hits $4.5 million, also adds Eros Resmini to board
Swedish UGC platform scaling
Most Read
Hot Five: AppLovin's IPO, Crash Bandicoot's sales, and mighty Mighty DOOM
Hottest articles of the week
On And On
Now coming to Xbox, Gameloft announces one billion Asphalt installs
First launched in 2005 for DS and N-Gage
Head2head
Jambox Games raises $1.1 million for its competitive casual gaming platform
Targeting southeast Asia
Cashin
AppLovin IPO raises $2 billion
25 million shares sold
Idfa Reboot
Swaarm launches its Privacy Enabled Attribution Chain for fixing UA
Attribution throughout the chain with privacy