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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.
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PG.Biz Report 2010 now available
Hot off the presses
French publisher Bulkypix giving massive support to iPad
Three games announced, more to follow
RIM announces super push notification service for BlackBerry
Download up to 8KB directly onto devices
FreeAppADay supersizes with FreeiPadAppADay
The future's bigger and freer
Lima Sky's Pusenjak on taking Doodle Jump to mobile, maybe iPad, and bouncing on to four million sales
Success built on the back of constant updates
Rumour: Indiagames is undergoing financial re-organisation
Contacting unsecured creditors
FreeAppCalendar gains success with Card Drop boost
15,000 downloads in 48 hours
Palm's Q3 2010 figures stung by 43 percent webOS device sell through
Non-GAAP loss is $102.8 million
Microsoft focusing on cloud computing for connected Windows Phone 7 gaming
Code reuse and integrated achievements add to the fun
Stonetrip adds Android support to ShiVa game engine
Take your iPhone titles cross-platform
Appy adds IAP to FaceFighter and releases paid version of Tune Runner
Only seems contradictory
Mobclix adds iPad advertising support to SDK
Bigger ads. More cash
Ngmoco's Young on repositioning Plus+ as the standard tech for free2play iPhone games
Built on the backbone of experience
Ngmoco's Young on why iPhone social gaming won't be dominated by Zygna and Playfish
Higher quality games are a barrier to entry
Bango launches one-click cross-platform mobile billing system
Your flexible friend
Tap Me CEO Hernandez reveals iPhone gaming advertising platform iComplishments
Linking advertisers to gamers' good times
Correction: Pocket God's in-app purchase total is 240,000
Gross conversion rate of 10 percent
Why Namco's UniteSDK could shake up social gaming networks
Connecting mobiles, smartphones, desktop and tablets
By late 2010, mobile devices will have 5 times iPhone 3GS performance
32-fold increase during 2011
GDC 2010: How Palm is pushing mobile gaming with its C/C++ PDK
Currently in beta. Due live summer 2010
FreeAppCalendar discovery website goes live
Brings voting system into play
GDC 2010: Castelnuovo on Pocket God's 140,000 in-app purchases
It's all about community
GDC 2010: ngmoco's Neil Young on We Rule's early Canadian success
IAP usage is phenomenal
GDC 2010: Fragmentation is perfect for us says HandyGames' Kassulke
Power to the publisher
GDC 2010: FreeAppADay has half of the App Store free top 10
Building the momentum of discovery
GDC 2010: Windows Phone 7 will be a managed code platform
No native support planned
GDC 2010: Games are a key element of Windows Phone 7
Now with optimised 3D hardware support
GDC 2010: Prepare for Namco's avalanche of Android games
Pac-Man, Wolfman, Katamari and Harvest Moon primed
GDC 2010: How Backflip generates $500k/month via 400 million ad impressions
Why free games are vital to build a business
GDC 2010: How Semi Secret ran 1032m and fell to success with Canabalt
115,000 sales at $2.99
GDC 2010: Going Google and porting your game to Android
Learning to love the NDK
GDC 2010: No magic button for Gears of War on iPhone: Epic on bringing Unreal Engine 3 to Apple
Development not finished and only for 3GS hardware
GDC 2010: FreeAppADay embraces freemium games
Drops developer charges but adds stricter quality control
GDC 2010: Bolt Creative and Lazy 8 on maximising iPhone sales
$25k of advertising can work
GDC 2010: Qualcomm on bringing smartphones to India and China via Brew MP
Low cost smartphones get high-end features
GDC 2010: How Tiki Totems went from $40/day to $3,000 in a day
Going free and charging for IAP
GDC 2010: Freeverse CFO Decespedes joins new publisher Appular
An ngmoco-triggered but amicable departure
GDC 2010: How going free helped Fingerzilla developer Inert Soap kickstart in-app purchases
0.14% conversion rate not great however
GDC 2010: Battle of the free daily apps sites hots up
FreeAppADay and FreeGameoftheDay boast successes
GDC 2010: Unity extends engine support to iPad and Android
Also enhances iPhone tech
Chillingo's Coghlan on becoming a multi-platform publisher
From App Store to PSN, DSiWare and WiiWare
Nokia and Intel hope to hit 'MeeGo Day One' by end of March
Prepping for the future
Full Windows Phone 7 disclosure will be at MIX10 not GDC
Las Vegas, not San Francisco, the place to be
Free app consensus fragments; OpenFeint launches Free Game of the Day
Stops backing FreeAppADay
Free game discovery site freeAppCalendar launches 6 March
Comes with extra voting system
BackBreaker Football's piracy rate is only 1 percent
Across 1.5 million copies downloaded
DaSuppaStudios' Kovalev on making over $1 million via free distribution of Java game Tankzors
Mixing try-before-you-buy with micro-transactions
MySpace founder buys social gaming portal MindJolt; plans smartphone expansion
Going viral and making things easier for developers
Smartphone users drive US mobile Twitter growth 347%
Facebook up 112% year-on-year