10 Years On
Four million downloads makes Doodle Jump the best selling iPhone game ever
And an iPad version is on the way
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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.
Articles by Jon Jordan
Open Sesame
Realpolitik and Tim Sweeney's epic vision
From ZTT to the Metaverse
Traction
Beamable launches its Unity-based commerce and social game toolkit
From the team at Disruptor Beam comes a new venture
Make It Yourself
Roblox rules in self-isolated UK
Crunching the data with App Annie
10 Years On
Opinion: How iPad's launch confused game developers
Next generation proving much like the old one
Family & Friends
Words With Friends booms in troubled times
Crunching the data with App Annie
Jetfuel
N3twork launches $50 million growth fund to scale tomorrow’s hit mobile games
Get 10,000 ad campaign for free
Emergency Rescue
Vainglory’s surprise shutdown averted by Super Evil Megacorp
Rogue Games was pulling the plug
Hot Stuff
Idle Coffee Corp dev StarBerry raises $1.1 million
Berlin startup is expanding
Hypercasual Surge
Hypercasual surges with the top 3 most downloads mobile games from Voodoo
Crunching the data with App Annie
10 Years On
Average price of announced iPad games is $3.52
Price premium to exisiting iPhone versions is $1.42
Shaking It Up
Candy Crush Soda Saga splashes onto global top grossing chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
Emerging Strategy
Covid-19 crashes MTG’s esports business but gaming revenues performing well
Difficult decisions in a dynamic situation
Hit Me
KamaGames and Hard Rock join forces to launch Hard Rock Blackjack
Social casino hook up
The Flow
Tapjoy launches deep multi-reward engagements ads on Android
More rewards, better engagement
New Lifestyles
Robin Games raises $7 million to bring mobile gaming to 'underserved women audience'
Ex-Jam City team going big
Top Pedigree
Lineage titles dominate the South Korean mobile games chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
10 Years On
Opinion: The ten mobile and iPhone gaming trends of GDC 2010
How to thrive over the next nine months
Long Tail
Deca Games adds DragonVale to its live ops portfolio
Backflip Studios' breed-and-nurturer acquired
Changing
Covid-19: What comes next?
Jon Jordan looks at what's to come in a post-coronavirus world
Engaging
The synergetic nature of offerwalls and rewarded video ads
Tapjoy's research sees a 114% revenue boost
Big Launch
Monster Hunter Riders storms to the top of the Japanese download chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
Regional Taste
Moon Active, Playrix and Supercell dominate the German mobile game charts
Crunching the data with App Annie
Still Conquering
Five years on, Big Huge Games’ DomiNations generates $200 million
Mobile RTS rolling on
Pause
GDC 2020 "postponed"
A GDC event will be hosted later in the summer
No Go
Epic and Microsoft join Unity, EA, Facebook and Sony in withdrawing from GDC 2020
Annual games conference loses more key companies
Local Info Usa
Why the US mobile games market is more casual than the global market
Crunching the data with App Annie
Most Read
Hot Five: HQ Trivia lives on, GDC 2020 not cancelled, and Huuuge Games goes non-casino
The hottest articles of last week
Winner Winner
Game For Peace finally shoots to the pinnacle of global top grossing chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
Smarter Sales
Unity tweaks its accounting methods prior to rumoured IPO
Reallocating sales from Finland to US
Spend Up
Mobile gamers are a key target market for consumer brands
Results from Tapjoy's latest annual report
Small Beautiful
Supercell: Why it’s not about the money
We just wanna make the world play
And Relax
ASMR games Soap Cutting and Woodturning hit top 5 on global most downloaded chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
Games For All
Emily Greer's new mobile game studio Double Loop raises $2.5 million seed round
LVP and 1Up Ventures lead
10 Years On
10 YEARS ON: Developers have lost faith in the App Store
The new religion is platform and app store agnosticism
Upward Move
Adtech vertical consolidation accelerates as IronSource launches Supersonic Games
Will develop and publish hypercasual mobile games
Accelerating
Winners take more: The most successful mobile games are growing fastest
Insights from App Annie’s State of Mobile 2020 report
Long Player
Mobile drives Innogames’ FY19 sales to $208 million
Forge of Empires leads the charge
Top Media Sources
BlueStacks and TikTok offer substantial ROI for mobile game UA
So says new Singular report
Smarter Buying
How N3twork improved its UA performance by 25%
Automation does the heavy-lifting
10 Years On
'We will never sell another 99c app': ustwo calls for a Braveheart moment
It just doesn't add up
China On The Up
Honour of Kings, PUBG Mobile and AFK Arena climb global top grossing chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
Synergies
Denali Publishing's Sabaa Rehmani on making Spies in Disguise: Agents on the Run
Providing focus and demographic overlap
Never Die
Com2uS is working on a new The Walking Dead mobile game
Has also invested in IP holder Skybound
Simple, Faster
Hypercasual mobile game publishing platform Coda raises $4 million from LVP
London startup closes large seed round
Good Eggs
Ustwo gains 'business for good' B Corp status
Business synergies
10 Years On
10 YEARS ON: iPad will be the meteor that finally wipes out small iPhone developers
Big dinosaurs will be conserved
Niche Success
KamaGames' Video Poker game boasts 49% Day-1 retention
US is the key market
Changes
AFK Arena powers onto the global top grossing chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
Turning Japanese
It’s a JRPG 1-2 as Fate/Grand Order and Monster Strike head global top grossing chart
Crunching the data with App Annie