Scoreloop is signing up 300,000 Android gamers weekly
Activity on Google's ecosystem has been underestimated
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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
PG.biz 2010 Report Extract: Six business models for mobile games
Different ways to make money
How Valentine's Day and in-app purchases are making $266 daily for Snappy Touch
Growing a business from Flower Garden's seeds
Scarface Last Stand drops from $6.99 to free promotion
Even licensed games are going FreeAppADay
Google drops Nexus One web store in favour of carrier partnerships
People want hands-on and service plans
The Game Trail's serving up 100,000 iPhone game videos per week
Adding 1,500 Brazilian users per day too
Dizzypad HD is #1 iPad free game on 12,000 downloads
IAP conversion rate 2.8 percent
Angry Birds has done 2.4 million paid downloads from the App Store
More than 6 million in total
Ngmoco buys again; snaps up Touch Pets developer Stumpdown
An addition to the family
Gamedoctors' Hochsmann on the toil, test and revision that made ZombieSmash a top grossing game
Success is not a gamble
Player X CEO Tony Pearce leaves for pastures new
His work there is done
Is Tim Langdell the next great thing in iPhone game promotion?
App Store readmittance boosts Edge up the charts
Digital Legends' Carrillo Costa on Bruce Lee, abstraction layers and why quality matters
Going native, pushing boundaries
Glu's de Masi on smartphones, persistent online games and 22 million iPhone downloads
81 percent of revenue still carrier based though
Gameloft gets a grown up logo for 10th birthday
Now it's a big squashed G
RealNetworks sees Q1 2010 game revenues drop 8% to $30.2 million
Slide continues
Freeverse's Morrison on turning Warpgate from paid to freemium
Learning the new rules of App Store trade
Glu Mobile's Q1 2010 revenue down 17% to $17.3 million
Fourth quarter of positive cash flow however
MillionDollarAppSite set up to ease App Store discovery
Like MillionDollarHomepage but for iPhone games
Share price fluctuations suggest something's going on at Glu
Q1 2010 financials due 4 May
One million iPads sold in 28 days
That's 46 days faster than iPhone took
HandyGames' Kassulke on its triple-A erotic management game Porn Tycoon
Refreshing the appetites iPhone can't fulfil
How Blackberry online activity outguns iPhone in 12 of the top 15 US cities
According to ad requests via Millennial Media
Appular's $1,738 marketing spend on Hand of Greed competitions
Mixing daily viral activity with the promise of an iPad
Japanese social gaming company DeNA sees sales up 28% to $517 million
Aurora Feint backer expanding fast
Will iPad provide a new opportunity for mobile operators?
Pyramid Research report explores the potential
HP's tablet strategy drops Windows for Android and webOS
Firstfruits of Palm deal
Gameloft Q1 2010 sales up 7% to 33 million euros
21% from iPhone
Connect2Media rebrands Israeli distribution arm as Connect2Media Middle East
RayFusion renamed, will expand into Turkey and Greece
Quirky iPhone app MouthOff makes £50,000 for developer ustwo
Two million user sessions racked up
Free promotion lifts Babel Rising to one million App Store downloads
Monetised by in-app purchases
Zeemote extends support for JS1 Controller to Android
Versions 1.6 and 2.x enabled
Around half Blackberry owners have used App World at least once
Downloads 'nearly one million' daily
FreeAppADay tweaks strategy; gets five into US top 10 free games
Standalone iPhone app due next
GetJar announces strategic alliance with Indian operator Reliance
105 million subscribers get access to 65,000 free apps
95% of iDevices on OS 3.x while only 35% of Android devices on OS 2.x reckons AdMob
Splitting fragmentation hairs
Android online activity up 28-fold in 12 months, Droid most active handset says AdMob
Followed by HTC Hero
Namco's UniteSDK has almost 2.5 million users
The power of Pac-Man Lite
Free game promotional bonanza continues with Heavy Gunner 3D and B-Boy Beats gaining fans
Fuelling the viral fires
Com2uS' FY10 Q1 sales down 3.8% to $6.2 million, but income up 75%
Growth in international markets
Apple hires IGN editor Casamassina as global editorial games manager
Strengthening games team
Freeverse's Morrison: iPad is the future but iPhone is still king
Different sort of gaming device
Is it right that Apple's sold 2.5 times fewer smartphones than Nokia, but is worth five time as much?
Comparing apples and blueberries
Nokia Q1 2010 sales up 3% to 9.5 billion euros
Smartphone sales up 57% year-on-year
Qualcomm sees strong chipset demand with Q2 2010 revenues up 8% to $2.66 billion
3G footprint continues to expand
Cobra Mobile's Ettle: People are playing games for longer on iPad
Bigger means more immersive
As APPL stock hits $258, why not tweak the forecasts yourself and work out how far it could go?
Become your own investment advisor
Best selling non-Apple iPad app did 10,643 sales in first week
Weather HD developer Vimov guestimates total iPad launch market was worth $370k per day
Firemint's Rob Murray: We're ecstatic to be leading the iPad gaming field
Continues to see iPhone as lead device though
Apple COO Tim Cook shocked by US demand for iPad
Heavy subsidy will reduce profitability next quarter