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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
GreyStripe expands Tapjoy deal with full screen iPhone ads
Bigger ads, higher CPM
Cellufun: Successful virtual currencies are about content and ease of use not pricing
Experiencing higher usage rates on mobile than PC
1,000 downloads of Ideaworks Labs' Airplay SDK in a week
New licensing model proving popular
Ngmoco acquires Epic Pet Wars developer Miraphonic
Buying Facebook experience
Honey I broke the App Store
When did Apple last back up?
StormBASIC on embracing PSP Minis and supporting iPhone 3GS
The most difficult thing for an indie is the decision
Dynamic Pixels: 18 percent of Russian mobile gamers will pay for micro transactions
ARPU for the best free games is over $10
Eliminate proves Apple's freemium model with Top Grossing success
Tallying up the body count
Glu's Q3 sales down 18 percent to $19.6 million but it remains cashflow positive
Is the company half full or half empty?
Gameloft highlights new operator deals in Asia and South America
Securing first mover advantage apparently
Gameloft Q3 2009 sales up 15 percent, partly thanks to Asia and South America
Emergence of emerging markets
Live Gamer: Apple needs to unlock sub-99c payments to kickstart the iPhone virtual item market
That's where the volume is for PC online market
'Free' game Eliminate enters the US Top Grossing Top 100
Freemium model appears to be working
QuIC's Rob Chandhok on why mobile open source matters to Qualcomm
New subsidiary is a 'significant initiative'
New Zealand studio The Miracleworks on filling the female iPhone gaming gap
Huge potential but currently under represented
Aurora Feint's Relan: free-plus-paid VSL won't nickel and dime players
Pay 99c for level/item pack or just play harder
Greystripe: Price deflation is driving the uptake of in-app advertising
Monthly revenues of $10k per app claimed
Ideawork's Closs: We're excited to see what the indies do with Airplay
New licensing deal will see creativity blossom
Epic quest: The making of Zenonia
When iPhone went role-playing
Ideaworks opens up for indies with free Airplay iPhone SDK licence
The power behind Metal Gear Solid Mobile and Backbreaker Football is now gratis
OpenFeint to encourage in-app purchases with extra achievements
Upgrade process to feature in v2.4
Exclusive: How Chillingo's social networking platform Crystal will be seamless for gamers and developers
Usability and quality are key
Red Rocket's Jung Suh on becoming a cross-platform publisher
All about sparking unexpected combinations
Will in-app purchases actually increase iPhone piracy?
Dominique Bongard thinks so
Exclusive: Chillingo on why Crystal will outdo the competition and take social networking one step further
Theres a new contender for the social gaming crown
One-man band: Glenn Corpes on how old skool tricks kept Ground Effect under 10MB
Twenty years of programming nous compressed
Freeverse says Top Grossing chart includes in-app transactions
Detective work picks up the evidence
Lima Sky's Pusenjak: Free-plus-paid will shake up the App Store charts
This is huge on so many levels
Glu on Java and BREW, App Store's $4.99 sweet spot, and gunning for Facebook
Everything to play for
New in-app purchase version of Rolando 2 is bouncing up the App Store free chart
But is it generating revenue?
Selatra offers operators their own Java and Symbian app store
If it's good enough for Apple...
Scoreloop's Gumpinger on deep integration, white label solutions, and making money from free services
Will even offer co-ownership of player data
Com2uS: 30 percent of Korean mobile gamers will pay for micro transactions
Publisher will be bring free-plus-paid MMOG to App Store
Scoreloop reveals custom integration for social networking
Delivers seamless in-game leaderboards and challenges
Castlenuovo says Pocket God micro transactions already a success
27 percent of revenue came from first 99c reskin pack
Pangea's Greenstone: We won't be releasing free-plus-paid games
Our apps will always be in the Paid list
Hands-On rumoured to be restructuring for Facebook and iPhone
CEO David White has left the building
Backflip's Farrior: Free-plus-paid will make free the new 99c
More yield for developers and less initial commitment for users
App Store Analysis: US Top 100 dances to the beat of Tap Tap Revenge 3
Glu charts with Family Guy and Super KO Boxing 2
Debutant Szymon Masiak on why his beat-'em up Revenge of the Mad John isn't 99c
Even $1.99 is lower than he thinks it should be priced
Trip Hawkins reckons Apple's new free-plus-paid model is 'very important'
DChoc will definitely be releasing such titles
Tag's Farley: Micro-transactions in free games could result in a premium App Store by default
Will everyone shift their 99c games into the Free chart?
Gamevils Kyu: Micro-transactions in free games will increase App Store ARPU
Publisher is waiting for intermediate currency and sub-99 cents charges
Four Door Lemon on the answers to the App Store's quiz
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ICS Mobile on credit crunch, credit card funding, and taking on the tower defense genre
Will it be third time lucky?
Opinion: In-app transactions for free apps will be the death of a thousand cuts for some developers
Even 99c is a better model than free
Apple meets piracy concerns with micro-transactions for free apps
Weapon provided to shoot elephant in the App Store corner
Apple enables free apps to charge for micro-transactions
Freemium business model finally comes to App Store
Bulkypix to become an iPhone game publisher
Five developers signed up, using OpenFeint