That was the year that was: Michael Schade, Fishlabs
We light a candle for Apple every day
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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
That was the year that was: Paul Farley, Tag Games
PSPgo underlines the rise of digital downloads
Art gaming outfit Monstrous raises $400k in seed funding
Also launches music art game Entranced
Imangi Studios and Critical Thought talk about geoSpark collaboration
How hardcore gaming meshed with casual appeal
Korean Game Rating Board calls out Apple over unapproved games
Naughties on the App Store?
COO Ryan leaves as Oberon makes organisational changes
Some reductions, some investment
OpenFeint 2.4 out with better community, promotion and upselling tools
UI is streamlined too
That was the year that was: Alex Galvagni, Glu Mobile
We have pay more attention to the consumer experience of finding games
Tapulous' monthly sales are around $1 million
Tapping out the beat of success
That was the year that was: Christopher Kassulke, HandyGames
Grow up and concentrate on making money
US and iPhone dominate smartphone traffic according to AdMob metrics report
Don't ignore Japan, China, India or Android though
Mad Monkey launches its iPhone Chip & Dare gaming competition
Win Alienware laptops or PlayStation 3s
Google announces operating system distribution of Android devices
Two thirds running OS 1.6 or above
RIM ships 10 million Blackberries and adds 4 million subscribers
Record shipment during Q3 FY10
That was the year that was: Adam Saltsman, Semi Secret Software
I would love to see people price their games reasonably
That was the year that was: Brian Robbins, Riptide Games
Droid is the first device that might compete with iPhone
That was the year that was: Joony Koo, Com2uS
Google needs to reduce the Android OS refund policy
That was the year that was: Brian Greenstone, Pangea Software
There are too many developers diluting the market
Ocarina developer Smule raises $8 million in third VC round
Total up to $13.7 million
Apple is in pole position to dominate mobile internet says Morgan Stanley
Company has two or three year lead
That was the year that was: Dave Castelnuovo, Bolt Creative
2010 will be the year of the big publisher
Nickel Buddy's Mike Barnes on bringing tower defence gaming to BlackBerry
And selling it for $4.99 a pop
Opinion: Why 20,000 Android apps don't yet add up to much
Forget numbers. Look for the excitement
Opinion: Why Gameloft's $10 Avatar proves the Two App Store model
And raises questions about the gap in between them
That was the year that was: Julian Farrior, Backflip Studios
In-app purchases will be enormously significant in 2010
PressOK's Morell on getting Finger Physics to 1.9 million downloads
Building up a touchy iPhone brand
China will be the biggest smartphone market in 2010
So says the latest report from Pyramid Research
Scoreloop's Gumpinger: A lot of companies are adding Android development
The future of social networks is more than iPhone
That was the year that was: Sarah Thomson, IUGO
2009 for original iPhone content, 2010 for taking it to BlackBerry, BREW and Android
Mplayit adds BlackBerry games to its Facebook social app store
Better discovery with family and friends
Apple redesigns US App Store with less words, more pictures
Cleaner look, better information flow
ROK considering legal action over Player One going bust
Administration due to management clash apparently
Rumourmill says Player One has entered administration
Caught between ROK and a hard place
Scoreloop adds Android support to its iPhone social networking tech
First game out now
Nokia confesses current Ovi Store is stopgap. Relaunch due early 2010
But already doing 1 million daily downloads
Australian devs launch iPhone Xmas promotion with Aussie App Sale
Digital retailer trend spreads down under
How an iPhone word game without blood, on-screen death or bad language ended up rated 17+
Hangman too much for the tweenies
Android adult-only app store MiKandi launches on a natural high
We want people to think about more than pornography
EA Mobile, Gameloft and Capcom launch partners for Samsung's bada
A exciting new digital distribution channel
Samsung officially announces bada smartphone platform
First devices in Asia and Europe during H1 2010
Sibblingz hopes to unify Facebook, iPhone and web gaming with new platform
Same game. Different screen.
Wind River releases Android platform for quick handset deployment
Optimised for TI OMAP 3 chipsets
Mobile gaming portal Gofresh Games claims 2 million users
Funded by the 15 percent who buy in-game items
Appvent Calendar update: three games over 65k downloads
Free daily festival cheer is here
Totemo does 65k free downloads in a day thanks to Appvent Calendar
December freebies pick up pace
Semi Secret on why your iPhone game needs to be priced $2+
Lessons learnt from $2.99 Canabalt
Pocket God's in-app purchases peak at 20 percent
Castelnuovo: all our new games will use in-app purchases
Scoreloop's Hirsch: iPhone is only the start for social networking
Taking your connections cross-platform
Greg Ballard finally leaves Glu Mobile
But no permanent CEO yet found
Acer phone boss: Android has definite momentum
Releasing Android devices alongside WimMo in 2010