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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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Smarter Moves
With Clash expansions, Supercell is rewriting the mobile game playbook - again
Making sense of changing circumstances
Smarter Thinking
How AI is disrupting the game creation process
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Miraculers
Zag Games and CrazyLabs announce Miraculous Ladybug Puzzle RPG
Launching alongside holiday season movie
Own Your Own
Leaf Mobile to experiment with NFTs for player rewards
Giveaway in games like Trailer Park Boys
Biggest And Best
Klaas Kersting on why mobile gaming remains best for revenue and growth
Phoenix Games’ CEO on the future
Xplatform Play
Zynga’s plan to accelerate growth in 2021
COO Matt Bromberg on the road ahead
Fat Or Thin?
2021: Mobile gaming’s year of reckoning?
Was 2020 extraordinary or the new ordinary?
Raise Your Game
MunkyFun and Zeeppo accepted into N3twork’s $50 million Scale Platform
League of War: Mercenaries and Chaos Road get boosted
Shooting Style
How Warface: Global Operations mixes realism with accessibility
Developer Whalekit lifts the curtain
Fast Show
Fueled by hypercasual boom, BoomBit surpasses 800 million downloads
Ramp Car Jump leads the way
Real Town Bidness
NFL star Marshawn Lynch onboard for Blackout Bingo’s Beast Mode event
72 hours of celebration
Machine Smarts
Vungle adapts to post-IDFA era with acquisition of automated UA platform AlgoLift
Taking a probabilistic approach
Collecting Hoops
Dapper Labs’ collectible app NBA Top Shot enters open beta
First to launch on new Flow blockchain
Block Builders
Sumo Leamington working on mobile blockchain projects with Dapper Labs
All using the new Flow blockchain
New Plays
LaLiga Top Cards 2020 to use blockchain to support new in-game assets
Developer The Breach partners with Freeverse.io
Time’s Up
Quantum Siege dev Armada Interactive files for bankruptcy
Finish startup closes its doors
Coming Together
Why Bunch got $20 million to party harder
Building the next gaming social network
Clever Data
GameRefinery reveals a new way to optimise UA without tracking users
Data Enrichment categorises games and matches with potential fans
Deeper Magic
Facebook's angry yet radical reaction to Apple's IDFA changes
IDFA tracking is out. Probabilistic modelling inbound
Big Better
Zynga on the post-IDFA value of hypercasual mobile games
President of publishing Bernard Kim on market dynamics
In Or Out?
Maybe IDFA opt-out rates won't be a disaster after all?
But the data from Adikteev is really strange
Last Store Standing
How will Samsung play its new Fortnite exclusivity card?
Galaxy Store has an ace
All Your Bases
Why the best is yet to come for Asian powerhouse Nexon
CEO Owen Mahoney talks geopolitics and secular shifts
Fast Mover
Zynga buys hypercasual outfit Rollic for $168 million
All-cash deal gains 80% equity
Skill Up
Transcend Fund leads $5.25 million investment into Big Run Studios
Indie has fifth game Big Cooking out soon
10 Years On
Disney enters social gaming battle with $763 million Playdom deal
The Mouse is in sharing mode
More $$$
Wappier releases its In-App Purchase Pricing Strategy Guide
Behavioral economics for mobile game developers
10 Years On
Flurry reckons iPhone free-to-play ARPU is $14.66
Predicts geyser of cash
No Data, Bad Data
California Consumer Privacy Act shatters attributable mobile advertising rates
Data from Consumer Acquisition
Games What Won It
37% of iPhone owners game daily while 46% of Blackberry owners have no games
Marking the contrast
Nintendo's Rethink
The big game company that couldn't: Nintendo's mobile rethink
Jon Jordan explores Nintendo's decision to scale back on mobile
Eat Or Be Eaten
Despite $1.8 billion Peak deal, Zynga isn't 'acquisition-ed out'
President of publishing Bernard Kim on a hungry beast
10 Years On
Opinion: Why a growing disquiet stalks the corridors of WWDC 2010
It's a Jobsian Hobbesian world
What's Up?
Games vs Covid-19: FIFA 2020 will provide artificial crowd sounds for Premier League TV coverage
Keeping track of what's happening
Algo Rules
YouTube now #1 source for kids' mobile game discovery
Latest research from Interpret
Level Up
MeeWow Games and Supergaming gain access to N3twork’s $50 million Scale Partnership
Lucky Star Solitaire and Tap Empire get supercharged
Digging Deeper
GameRefinery adds Player Motivations and Archetypes insights
Adding more understanding of gamers' behaviours
New Smarts
Blackout Blitz dev Big Run Studios hires Benjamin Jordan as new CTO
Going deeper for underserved audiences
10 Years On
Opinion: Android has finally reached its tipping point
Baby how you're grown
Team Up
Critical Force partners with Gizer for its Critical Ops community tournament program
Building a better community
Better Together
Twitter acquires playable ad outfit CrossInstall
Building a strong monetisation channel
Leaning In
Zynga in the time of Covid-19
COO Matt Bromberg considers the new era
Level Up
Rogue Games raises $2 million to expand to console games
Also announces new title Coreupt
Mmorpgs Rule
South Korean mobile games market still grinding
Crunching the data with App Annie
Finns Are In
Posting record sales thanks to Empires & Puzzles, Zynga pays $122 million earnout to Small Giants
Q1 2020 financials are booming
10 Years On
Infinite Lives on dropping CastleCraft's subscription model and going freemium
Players just didn't like it
Hard And Soft
Glocal successes in the Russian mobile games market
Crunching the data with App Annie
C'est La Vie
Anime, Supercell and Playrix dominate the French lockdown charts
Crunching the data with App Annie