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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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Z2 Mark2
Ex-Z2 team Starform raises $1.25 million to focus on mobile games to play with friends
New studio moving fast
Read 5 Now
Hot Five: Disney offloading FoxNext, Zynga's strategy, Wooga's revitalisation, and making a mobile game in 4 months?
The hottest stories
High Kpis
Warhammer Combat Cards boasts Day 7 retention of 34% and 15% payer conversion
TCG off to a great start
Jam Tomorrow
Rovio to increase UA spending in H2 2019 to maximise 'window of opportunity'
2019 sales and profit will be lowered than predicted
All New
BAFTA retires Mobile Game award
Categories streamlined
Most Read
Hot Five: Pokemon Go sustains, Lineage 2 M teases, and Small Giant's transition to success
The stories making the news
Here And There
East Meets West: Apple's App Store payment snafu, Pokemon Master's good start, and Huya's ESL deal
Keeping up with the news from the world's most influential games market
The Other One
Whatever happened to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite?
Monetizer Mavens opine
New Horizons
Horizon Blockchain Games raises $3.75 million seed investment
Horizon is currently working on its debut release, an Ethereum-based trading-card game called SkyWeaver
Going Boldly
The secret of Scopely’s success? How we think about IP, says CEO
Javier Ferreira on being audience-first
Monetizer Mavens
Could all F2P mobile games benefit from a Battle Pass like Clash of Clans has?
A new technique for all
Keep Em Playing
Why Supercell ignored monetisation but Season Challenges made Clash of Clans the top grossing game anyway
More than a $5 boost
Gearing Up
Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff on his vision to become the ‘Epic of live ops’
Disruptor Engine will create stronger businesses
Busy Bees
Animoca raises $3.3 million and acquires German developer Stryking
Picks up studio initial $1.1m deal that could rise to $3.3m
Rethinking Paid
Monetizer Mavens on what Apple Arcade needs to do to be successful
A new way to play and pay
Better Together
Why NetEase is shooting up battle royale with stylish, team-based title Disorder
Another twist
Past Or Future?
Apple Arcade versus Google Stadia: Two very different visions of gaming
Considering two subscription services
Sharp Shiny Things
How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise?
Plarium cracks the code
Existing Fans
Game IP versus entertainment IP: Which is best for mobile games?
We ask our Monetizer Mavens
The Road Ahead
Monetizer Mavens discuss the future of innovation in the maturing mobile games sector
Changing trends
Too Little, Too Late?
Why Activision Blizzard’s mobile strategy is between a rock and a hard place
The wrong IP at the wrong time
All Systems Go
More games, more M&A, more growth: Why Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau is bullish for 2019
Opportunities, not costs
More Is More
Despite spending over $1 billion Zynga’s M&A activity isn’t over yet
CEO Frank Gibeau is unsated
Bold Buy
Zynga buys Empires & Puzzles dev Small Giant Games in deal worth over $700 million
Finnish indie snapped up
Streamlined
How does Brawl Stars monetise?
Supercell’s new release analysed
Branching Out
Reigns publisher Devolver getting ‘more serious’ about mobile, F2P and China
Hires ex-Appler Mark Hickey
Time To Recalculate
Why the 70:30 App Store revenue split is doomed
The old order is passing
Walking The Line
The delicate balancing act behind midcore match-three Sega Heroes
Finding core-casual sweetspot
Halo Effect
Why the Epic Games Store could reposition Android as the gamers’ mobile ecosystem
The power of open
Breaking Out
Patents, platforms and IPO: How mobile-first esports platform Skillz is planning for bigger things
CEO Andrew Paradise explains
Into The Swing
Playdemic CEO Paul Gouge explains how Golf Clash is getting more competitive with clans and potentially esports too
Two years on, plenty to come
Early Bird Expands
Mobile still has ‘plenty of opportunity’ says Henric Suuronen, launching $30 million Play Ventures fund
Ex-angel investor upscales
A Well Honed Blade
How does Assassin’s Creed: Rebellion monetise?
Ubisoft’s got (F2P) game
Funding News
Activision Blizzard vets raise $16m for item-based blockchain gaming platform
Mythical Games aims to deploy platform using the EOS blockchain
Faustian Bargain
Why Diablo Immortal’s detractors won that battle but have lost the war
Blizzard’s difficult decision
Get Bigger Faster
Frank Gibeau on how IP licensing will help Zynga to the next level
Jetfuel for the mobile generation
Best Of Both Worlds
How Super Bit Machine hopes Armajet will ride Fortnite’s coat-tails to cross-platform success
Fighting on both fronts
Recycling Ad Dollars
How AppCoins hopes to monetise unbanked app store users via blockchain
Creating value flow
Fighting Fit
How does Badland Brawl monetise?
Frogmind’s latest analysed
Apponboard’s Tech Is Taking Off
Google Play’s Try Now demos are boosting retention and monetisation by more than 29%
AppOnboard’s tech is taking off
New Horizons
Animoca Brands' Yat Siu on why mobile games are leading the charge to take blockchain mass-market
Time to gain scale
Finding A Sweet Spot
Etermax on balancing the fresh with the familiar in Trivia Crack 2
Back for another spin
Play Bigger
The surprising successes of PC-based Android gaming platform BlueStacks
Mobile games flourish on PC
Skin In The Game
How real-money competition platform Skillz is riding the wave of mobile esports for all
Hits $400 million annualised run-rate
Jumping The Shark
How does Hungry Dragon engage, retain and monetise?
Analysing Ubisoft’s franchise spin-off
Click To Play
How Google is boosting Play Store by adding AppOnboard’s Try Now demos
CEO Jonathan Zweig explains all
Block By Block
Why Pixowl thinks The Sandbox’s potential can be fulfilled by going blockchain
Pixowl CEO Arthur Madrid explains
Building A Blockchain Strategy
Animoca Brands acquires The Sandbox dev Pixowl for $5 million
Betting on blockchain user generated content
High Reward, Higher Risk
The dangerous allure of F2P mobile Star Wars games
Playing Russian Roulette with a poisoned chalice?