Former Editor Jon Jordan may have stepped back from his role towards the end of 2016, but he's still kicking about, and his returning opinion pieces have definitely caught our readers' eyes during the last week.
The most read article of the week was his opinion that Nintendo's free-to-start payment model is already dead on arrival, which he proves by comparing Super Mario Run's retention data to that of Pokemon GO.
Second, Gameloft has soft-launched Gangstar New Orleans, and taken the surprising move of making it free-to-play instead of its usual premium approach, something we are sure to be looking at closer when it launches worldwide.
Towers, hits, and crowds
Third up is our own Matt Suckley asking himself where all the tower defence games have gone, as more and more developers take their games and push them into different genres.
And finally, Folmer Kelly explains how you can make a successful living on the App Store without making a hit game, and Jon Jordan looks at whether Crowdstar is already proving to be a good acquisition for Glu Mobile.
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