Financials
Changyou sees FY14 Q2 game revenues down 6% to $154 million
DDTank and Wartune maturing
Staff
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
Financials
Unbalanced schedule sees Gameloft post FY14 Q2 sales down 0.4% to $73.5 million
Has at least 8 major releases due later in 2014
Investment
Leanplum raises $4.8 million and rolls out new marketing automation feature
Shasta Ventures funds Series A round
Promiscuous Gamer
One million pines trees, four games, two weeks, zero internet
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Financials
Mobile game UA boosts Facebook’s Q2 FY15 revenue 61% to $2.9 billion
Mobile advertising is now the company's main revenue stream
Investment
Next Games adds to $6 million funding thanks to strategic deal with Lionsgate
Mad Men company looks towards games
Investment
GamePop primes for the big time with $13 million round led by Samsung Ventures
Subscription-based unconsole will now be distributed by cable companies
Financials
EA Mobile sees Q1 FY15 revenue up 9% to $123 million
Four new games in development
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood adds $340 million to Glu Mobile's value
Shares up almost 100% in a month
Investment
Supersonic raises $15 million to open offices in China, India and Japan and boost headcount to 250
APAC region is the place for growth
Opinion
8 pieces of advice advertising genius David Ogilvy would give F2P marketeers
From UA and testing to honesty and brand
Reading List: The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver’s classic on prediction versus forecast
Monetizer Special
Analysing the big winners and relative losers in the social casino genre
Using open source data to better understand app store performance
Interview
PerBlue on switching from location-based games to a community focus
Why games should be played anywhere
Deal
Changyou buys 51% stake in Dolphin Browser outfit MoboTap for $91 million
Buying distribution and eyeballs
SponsorPay rebrands as Fyber
Aiding better digestion of the app ecosystem
Investment
Italian start-up BadSeed raises $330,000 early stage investment
Start of a relationship with United Ventures
Video
5 key ways in which Cursor boosted the games industry in southern Finland
Top insights from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2014
Big Fish on a roll with new Luxury Slots gameplay
Cashing in on $650 million social casino market
Faster, more furious: Racing Rivals hits 12 million downloads with Google Play launch
Going cross-platform accelerates business
Opinion
Bull or Bubble? How to make sense of mobile gaming M&A activity
Conclusions from Digi-Capital’s Q2 Investment review
Video
How to Finnish first: Cursor's Mikko Kähärä on encouraging innovation in Finland
Top insights from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2014
Interview
Chinese outfit KoramGame on coming to the west with build-and-conquer tank game Steel Avengers
Leveraging experiences from browser MMOGs
Social Party launches frequent-flyer-points-to-iOS-game redemption scheme with Finnair
Turn those useless points into Angry Birds and Badland
Interview
Flaregames on becoming a boutique publisher and taking Fieldrunners F2P
Next chapter in TD game series will be out in 2015
Monetizer Mavens
On the balance F2P designers tread between encouraging players to pay and manipulation
The Monetisation Maven ponder ethical boundaries
Chasing Carrots wins Havok’s $100,000 Project Anarchy mobile game prize
Three winners announced
Deals
Real-money mobile gaming gets a boost with 3 companies integrating Gamblit’s platform
Shanda Europe, Gamiker and Flexball spinning the wheel
Investment
Interactive mobile ad outfit mNectar raises $7 million
NEA impressed with 'huge market opportunity'
Playmob: Saving the world one IAP at a time
Providing the industry with corporate social responsibility
Interview
Koch Media CEO on releasing a $5 2GB point-and-click adventure for iOS
Dr. Klemens Kundratitz believes in premium
Data
Facebook's importance as a UA channel for mobile games just keeps growing
CTRs up 579% says Nanigans
Data
Why Apple's strongest competitor in China isn't Samsung, it's Xiaomi
Flurry digs into its data to highlight the key trends
GetJar CEO launches Toyze: an app store for 3D printed game characters
Launches with Cut the Rope's Om Nom
Upsight looks to make location matter with its GeoTrigger ad technology
Are your users in the place to be?
HasOffers on the importance of unbiased data in the world of UA
Creating a win-win situation
Deal
AppLift funds API-based customisable native ad platform PubNative to tune of 'x' million
Seven-digit investment announced
Deal
Ex-PopCap Dublin devs evolve thanks to publishing deal with Hill Climb Racing studio Fingersoft
Pick A Pet is picked
Korean Fair Trade Commission forces new consumer policies on App Store and Google Play
Tweaking refunds and automatic billing
PopAppStore: Don't forget to monetise outside your game
The lure of the physical
GMGC comes to Singapore with its first Mobile Game Asia event
One day conference happening on 18 July
The Charticle
Supercell signs deal with Kunlun Wanwei for Android version of Boom Beach
Also include Clash of Clan and Hay Day
Investment
With IPO rumours mounting, Gumi raises $49 million and hooks up with Sega for US invasion
Japanese publisher gains momentum
Deals
The power of film IP to lower UA costs underlined as Glu releases Hercules game
Company's second deal with MGM
Deals
East meets West publisher Kiyat signs up Ekkorr's Tiny Conquerors
Going hardcore in early August
Deal
AppFlood adds Bidstalk to its China-focused RBT ad exchange
Bidstalk gains China, AppFlood gains global inventory
Making Of
Second time better: The making of Royal Revolt 2
How flaregames targeted multiplayer TD for success
MarvelousAQL rebrands. Now just Marvelous
Drops the AQL
Deals
Motor World Car Factory dev Oh BiBi raises $4 million
And hooks up with Japanese publisher Gumi
Data
Plants vs. Zombies 2 and Temple Run 2 hottest western games in China
Wandoujia reveals its top foreign games for first 6 months