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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
Apple highlights The 49 Best iPhone Games You've Never Played
Editorial team break outs new promo
Drive downloads, reviews and chart position via AppRebates
New promotional lever to pull
Kooapp's Chun-Kai Wang on making casual games while being inspired by Dragon Ball and Naruto
From SAT cards to crushing cockroaches
Doodle Jump breaks the five million paid sales barrier
The neverending leap continues
EA Mobile gives away 1.2 million copies of Need for Speed Shift for bada
Tidal wave
DX Studio v4 to come with Android support
Middleware will also have cross-platform Java player
Handmark's quick onto Samsung Apps with 70 games already available
First mover advantage
100 million BlackBerry devices sold
Used by 46 million active subscribers
RIM's Q1 FY11 revenue up 24% to $4.24 billion
Net income up 20% to $769 million
EA Mobile's sale kicks iPhone 4 launch into touch gaining 60% of top grossing chart
Demonstrates pricing prowess
PapayaMobile opens up access to its social mobile platform
Get access to 3.5 million users
Backflip to cross promote its 1 million daily active users to sell paid game Tunnel Shoot
The power of free leveraged
GetJar plans to pay publishers to kickstart paid game downloads
We're very serious about games, says veep Mork
GetJar closes $11 million funding round from Accel Partners
Expansion in UK planned as first step
Google now activating 160,000 Android devices daily
OS could account for quarter of 2010 smartphone total
Gamevil says Android game sales have been better than expected
Launches Baseball Superstars 2010
GameHouse loses executives as part of RealNetworks' reorganisation
Cost of 85 jobs cut and office relocations will be $10m
MocoSpace primes browser-based mobile gaming platform
First up a Mafia Wars style game
EA Mobile veep Luca Pagano elected to MEF global board
Working for mobile entertainment
Samsung expects to double smartphone market share by end of 2010
Looking to overtake HTC
Bravo Game Studios' Corben on going from a startup to 120 staff by the end of 2010
An aggressive expansion policy
Apple could generate $2 billion in Q3 2010 from 3 million iPads sold
Fastest selling mobile device?
As Apple's editorial team works E3, the possibility of game previews are raised
Extending the reach
Scoreloop brings its social gaming network to bada, webOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Brew
Hooks up with Ideaworks Labs' Airplay
Namco Network's Rob Schoeppe on why he's so bullish about Android
Flight Control, Learn to Fly and Crush The Castle inbound
With 4 million sales in five months, Angry Birds is the fastest selling paid iPhone game to date
Out bouncing Doodle Jump?
DeNA's Tomoko Namba on the platform business, expanding westward and kickstarting Japanese PC social gaming
Wants US and European developers to get involved
Making games the Illusion Labs' way
Price follows quality
Top 10 things we learnt at WWDC 2010
Apples and pears
WWDC 2010: Will Game Center fracture the iPhone's social graph?
Reboot could trash gaming history
Microsoft is paying developers to port iPhone games to Windows Phone 7
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
WWDC 2010: As Farmville comes to iPhone, Zynga starts the search to acquire mobile studios
Prepares to pump the handle
WWDC 2010: Hosting 30 million minutes of daily activity, no one else is operating at our scale says ngmoco's Neil Young
We Rule
PG.Biz 2010 Report Extract: 87% of iPhone game developers think prices are too low
Key findings of the 2010 Mobile Games Survey released
WWDC 2010: Unity's Helgason on Android, Chrome OS and 1,000 iPhone games
This is the power of middleware
WWDC 2010: 2XL Game's Rick Baltman on why iOS4 will reduce device fragmentation
Plus the potential of the gyroscope for AR gaming
WWDC 2010: HandyGames - mobile ads are a growing revenue stream so of course we'll use iAd
Monetise those eyeballs
WWDC 2010: Even Apple is starting to get worried about app discovery
Widening the search
WWDC 2010: MiniSquadron's Tak Fung hopes iPhone 4 won't start a graphics arms race
Are we due a normal mapping bonanza?
WWDC 2010: Fishlabs' Schade on why Game Center, iAd and iPhone 4 will shake up the industry
Raising the quality bar
WWDC 2010: Doodle Jump's Igor Pusenjak can't wait for iPhone 4's gyroscope
Keen on FaceTime too
WWDC 2010: IUGO on iPhone 4, iOS 4, iAd and fragmentation
It's going to make our lives better
Dreamsky's Michael Chen on the inspiration behind game carousel iGameDock
Another discovery channel
WWDC 2010: NaturalMotion is piling into iPhone games
Preparing to sack the App Store again
WWDC 2010: iDevice market is now 100 million strong
That's what Jobs' calls an addressible market
WWDC 2010: Jobs hails curated App Store as world's most vibrant as it passes 5 billion downloads
Has generated $1 billion for developers
WWDC 2010: iBooks have 22% of total ebooks market
IPad's killer app?
PG.Biz 2010 Report Extract: In a cross-platform world, 43% of mobile game developers are very optimistic about 2010
Key findings of the 2010 Mobile Games Survey released
Tribeflame's free iPad Racecar has been downloaded 100,000 times
That's 5 percent of devices