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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
Android developers raise more concerns about Marketplace, Google Checkout, and lack of profits
Survey reckons 90% of apps downloaded less than 10,000 times
App Store Analysis: Black Friday special
The price cuts don't work. They only hurt
Mike Kirkup: BlackBerry enables developers to charge a premium for their games
The untapped opportunities of the App World
Mo'Minis announces mobile gamemaking competition
Drag-and-drop system meets $11,000 in prizes
Tag Games reveals its first iPhone publishing client
Kicks off with Mobile Pie's B-Boy Brawl
Com2uS: Were focusing on iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile
Android needs to find a poster child game
BlackBerry's Mike Kirkup on in-app purchases, OpenGL ES, and location services
How RIM is gearing up the platform
Gamevil goes for the wisdom of crowds for Boom It Up icon design
More eyeballs is more brain power
Opinion: Black Friday is more Mass Teen Fainting than a business model
What happens when the Beatles arrive in town?
Power of Apple Featured status demonstrated by Implode!'s Top Grossing climb
Fairly exploding up the charts
BlackBerry's Mike Kirkup on the opportunities of RIM's new advertising service
Hook into a global village
Scoreloop adds Volker Hirsch as strategic advisor
Bulking up on mobile and social gaming smarts
Riptide's Robbins: US and OpenFeint gamers most likely to buy in-app purchases
Gravity Sling generating 1.9 percent IAP conversion rate
NaturalMotion's Reil on iPhone success: 99c, sub-10MB, plus a great game
How Backbreaker Football sacked the App Store
Fishlabs' Schade: App Store price pressure means it's a challenge to break-even
But premium priced games provide the opportunity to differentiate
Android generates 20% of US smartphone internet traffic, according AdMob
Droid already accounts for quarter
Connect2Media's Hobson on Java, Lumines and cracking the App Store top 25
'There's plenty of life in the conventional carrier market'
Gameloft: 'We sell 400 times more iPhone games than Android'
Estimated Q3 sales: 10k euros
Gendai Game's Agustin on dropping GameSalad Creator's Express price to $99
We're building a new kind of gamemaking community
GreyStripe offers '99c per iPhone app download' ad deal
Available for first 200 devs prepared to spend $10k
Which iPhone gaming review website marks the hardest?
The spread of averages revealed
SGNs Randy Breen: In-app purchases let players pay for what they value
All future SGN games will adopt model
Samsung launches Application Store Developer Challenge
Total of $330,000 up for grabs
Recruitment agency Talented People expands
New crop now available
30% of Homerun Battle 3D's revenue comes from in-app purchases
Items priced from 99c to $19.99
iPhone Strategies report suggests £2.99 app price sweet spot
This and other marketing ideas discussed
Opinion: Does mass Peggling work?
Lessons from Konami's experiment
GoPayforit launches UK mobile micro payment service
Simple way to charge from 25p to £10
App Store Analysis: Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies gnaws at Top Grossing
Console brand + Nazi zombies = $9.99 cash in
App Store Analysis: The value of Flick Fishing's in-app purchases displayed
But what's going on with Tap Tap Revenge 3?
Freeverse on normal maps and OpenGL ES 2.0 support in Warpgate
Single binary; dual device support
Pyramid Research predicts BlackBerry will be dominant US smartphone by 2014
Will be a third more popular than Apple apparently
Playdom expands with the purchase of Facebook and iPhone studios
Trippert Labs and Green Patch welcomed into the fold
Heroes of the Mobile Screen in London on 7 Dec
Day-long event for movers and shakers
Playdom raises $43 million for expansion and acquisitions
Levelling up for round 2
Gamevil tops iPhone Publishers' Quality Index for Q3 2009
Gameloft dominates in terms of ranking releases
Quality Index: iBlast Moki was best iPhone game of Q3 2009
Closely followed by Space Invaders Infinity Gene and Rolando 2
Ngmoco's Eliminate energy recharge tweak boosts player numbers
Also seems to be reflected in in-app purchases
Roll for success: The making of 10 Balls 7 Cups and its remaking as Skee-Ball
The name of the game
DeNA investment will fuel OpenFeint expansion into global smartphone market
In-app purchases will be one focus
Eliminate's first weekend peaks with 4,500 concurrent players
Strong showing for first person shooter
EA Mobile's Q2 FY10 revenues up 9 percent to $51 million
Should break $200 million mark for FY10
BlackBerry to support in-app purchases
Also gets OpenGL ES graphics standard
Google buys AdMob: deal valued at $750 million
Mobile advertising gets its 950lb gorilla
Get Set Games: From Game Jam to App Store in five months
This is a really exciting time to be a game developer
App Store Analysis: Top Grossing chart shows the revenue paucity of 99c games
If you want to be really successful, aim for $4.99+
Mobile MMOG Age of Heroes rolls out to China and Indonesia
Current user base is over 250,000
One Circle on making experiences for iPhone parents to share with their kids
Secondary audience is bigger than you think
Top selling Android game grossed $22,724 in October
According to market research company FADE's estimate