Back To The Future
Indie subscription service GameClub goes live with 100 iPhone classics
Costs $5 per month
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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
Bouldered
Hasbro reportedly closing down DragonVale developer Backflip
End of an era
Mobile Eve Is Inbound
EVE Echoes starts open beta in December
First playable at EVE Fest
Vote For People’s Choice Now
International Mobile Gaming Awards reveals nominations for IMGA MENA 2019
63 games nominated
Faster $$$
IronSource releases automated adtech LevelPlay so game devs can earn more with less work
It’s time to flatten your waterfall
Your Choices
FoxNext brings Titanic and X-Files IP to mobile narrative game with Storyscape
Is it gonna sink?
Small Margins
Tencent gains majority stake in consortium that owns Supercell
Moves from 50 to 51.2% ownership
Tim Loves Games
Italian operator TIM launches €2 per month gaming subscription service with Gameloft
Costs a mere 2 euros a month
Vroom Vroom
Asphalt 9: Legends does 1 million downloads on Nintendo Switch in launch week
Full game available for $20
Read 5 Now
Hot 5: Halfbrick returns, a new mobile gaming taxonomy, and 6 years of Marvel Puzzle Quest
The hottest stories
Raskulls Face Off
Jetpack Joyride studio Halfbrick returns with fast-paced PVP Magic Brick Wars
First game in three years
Less Work More Money
Tilting Point fleshes out its monetisation tools with Gondola acquisition
Machine learning does the heavy lifting
Still Game
Deca Games plays F2P’s long tail, buying 4 one-time hits from GREE
Including Knights and Dragons and Crime City
Liveop Learnings
How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay
Obsessed with fine tuning their teams
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Hot 5: The rise of Roblox, Call of Duty is mobile's fastest ever launch, and you won't like Ilkka when he's angry
The hottest stories
False Start
Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour
Another Nintendo misfire?
Insightful
Sensor Tower appoints Craig Chapple as Mobile Insights Strategist
Ex-PocketGamer.biz ed goes corporate
Week One Wonder
Call of Duty: Mobile is the fastest ever mobile game to reach 100 million downloads
Shooting for the stars
Ip Rethink
Rovio restructures its branding division, potentially losing 20 staff
Focusing on key partnerships in a competitive world
Wallooned
Opinion: Here come the Belgians
No Call of Duty: Mobile for you
Cash Up
Blockchain mobile outfit Reality Gaming Group looking to raise £1.5 million
Hopes to make more games
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Hot 5: IronSource's $400 million, Mario Kart Tour's weak monetisation, and Subway Surfers heads to Snapchat
The hottest stories
Appetite For Destruction
Call of Duty: Mobile hits 35 million downloads, despite not being live in China (or Belgium)
Fastest action game launch ever
More Tools
Unity continues M&A drive acquiring live ops outfit ChilliConnect
The ecosystem grows
Big Deal
CVC buys minority stake in mobile game monetisation outfit IronSource for $400 million
Cash will drive organic growth and M&A activity
Buy, Pay, Donate
One Special Day 2019 charity event kicks off on 4 October
Seriously and Norwich FC join the action
Slow Train
Nintendo slouches towards $1 billion of mobile revenue
$87 million still to make
Fast Start
Mario Kart Tour does 90 million downloads but monetisation lags
Biggest Nintendo mobile game ever
Great Pivot
Microsoft reveals Android-based Surface Duo foldable 8.3” phone
Due late 2020
Ready To Rumble?
Netmarble preps for The King of Fighters Allstar's global launch
Beating up later in October
Hard Gate
The key to Mario Kart Tour's success (or failure)
Doing things the Nintendo way
Go Low, Go Big
Why tens of millions more Android gamers are playing PUBG Mobile than Fortnite
New number from Newzoo
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Hot Five: Mario Kart Tour's FTUE, Call of Duty Mobile's fps, and Apple Arcade's obscuration
The hottest stories
Pole Position
Mario Kart Tour races to 20 million downloads in 24 hours
Nintendo's best-ever launch on mobile to date
Apples & Oranges
Why Google Play Pass is orthogonal to Apple Arcade
Different strokes
Keep Out
Mario Kart Tour: the worst First Time User Experience ever
Does Nintendo even want to succeed on mobile?
Moving Fast
Following the success of Cool Goal, Gismart is looking to partner with more hypercasual game devs
New strategy is paying off
Going Green
Game companies look to spark climate change debate by launching Playing for the Planet Alliance
Part of UN Climate Action Summit
It’s Almost Go, Go, Go
Mario Kart Tour goes live on Wednesday at 1am PT
Haters are sharpening their quills
All You Can Eat
Google’s Play Pass service offers over 350 games and apps for $5 a month
Anything Apple can do
Ghosting
Is Apple stopping data companies tracking Apple Arcade downloads?
App Annie and Sensor Tower shooting blanks
Bullseye
PUBG Mobile shoots through $1 billion of lifetime sales
Explosive growth in 2019
Share For Success
Why Apple’s attitude to title exclusivity will make or break Apple Arcade
It’s time to join in
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Hot Five: Apple Arcade vs F2P, Android becomes revenue dominant, and Wargaming still love tanks
The hottest stories
Bigger Union
Unity acquires DeltaDNA for undisclosed fee
Adding live ops tools to the flow
Start Here
Apple Arcade - the First Time User Experience perspective
How to organise 71 games
No Shows
21 Apple Arcade games that didn’t turn up for launch
Coming soon, we hope
More Merging
Zynga launches Merge Magic! Gram Games’ follow up to key hit Merge Dragons!
Can sequel match success?
Size Matters
Android to finally overtake iOS as the dominant mobile gaming platform by revenue in 2019
So says Newzoo
Walled Garden
Monetizer Mavens discuss if Apple Arcade is just for the kids
How can the subscription service thrive?