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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
Google tweaks features for Android Market point release
Screenshots, promotional icons, and Italian seller support added
Pocket Gamer People Survey 2009 closes tonight
Hours left to tell us what you think
AppsFire says its users have each spent $80 on iPhone apps
Mind the hardcore bias though
How 'What Hot' listing boosted FaceFighter into App Store Top 10
From zero to hero
Opinion: Dominated by EA and Gameloft, the App Store is mutating into just another operator deck
Question is, does Apple care?
App Store Analysis: EA Mobile continues its land grab
Now has 15 games in the Top 100
Nokia confesses Ovi Store has a long way to go
Only 10 million downloads in 3 months
Free iPhone development tool GameSalad is close to launch
Visual-based system doesn't require coding smarts
Tap Tap Revenge is Trojan horse for Jennifer's Body promotion
App Store success begets new business model
Facebook extends Facebook Connect to mobile
Also claims it's solving App Store's discovery challenge
Well-oiled machine: The making of Toy Bot Diaries
IUGO flicks back through 2008's entries
How Unity 1.5 lets you push iPhone 3GS and make the most of 3G
Support the future with fallbacks for the present
Selatra to manage O2 Irelands mobile game operations
One source games service
Mobile ad company Greystripe raises $2 million from NBC Universal
Completes C funding round at $7.5 million
Samsung will launch app store in UK, France and Italy on 14 Sept
Over 2,000 applications by end of 2009
OpenFeint opens beta program for multiplayer features
Play together nicely with v2.5
Gameloft's H1 income jumps from 08 loss to 2.2 million euros profit
Thanks to sales growth and staff stability
Q2 sales at mobile media company Flycell up 95% to $37 million
Driven in part by premium SMS casual gaming
IF Europe boss speaks out about the way ahead
Not playing the old In-Fusio game
Mobile Pie on how iPhone allows it to compete with the big boys
While doing the B-Boy Brawl
App Store Analysis: The slide to a 99c standard continues apace
Average price of Top 100 is lowest to date
Geocade tells why location-based social networking has the edge
Every stadium, town, state is a leaderboard playground
Mobile ad provider AdMob snaps up fast growing iPhone rival AdWhirl
Terms not disclosed
iPod touch owners download twice as much as iPhone and Android owners, apparently
So says latest AdMob survey
In-Fusio comes out of liquidation as IF Europe
Legal restructuring complete
The Game Creators: You should be able to pay for fast track App Store approval
Current time from submission to approval is a pain
Parachute Panic update adds Scoreloop support
Make a million new friends
Soaring high: The making of Glyder
How Glu spreads its iPhone wings
Distinctive boss: 99c games only make sense with sub-$40k development costs
Nigel Little's done the maths
Urban Airship releases in-app purchase service StoreFront
Taking the strain out of small charges
Detonator will release first social game in the autumn
MMOG veterans to hit the ground running with small, frequent, experimental experiences
Unity3D's Francis says 3GS shows Apple takes gaming 'very seriously'
Are you preparing for shaders, pixel lighting and bumpmaps?
Get a threefold performance boost with Unity iPhone 1.5
3GS optimisations also included
Can you buy your way to launch week App Store success?
Shadowy companies say they have the manpower if you have the cash
App Store Analysis: EA's dominance grows thanks to price cuts
Despite $6.99 price, Gameloft's Gangstar charts high
PR firm accused of paid-for App Store reviews
MobileCrunch faces up Reverb
Opinion: What iPhone networking platforms need to do better
All about friends and those we've not yet met
Micro-transactions boost Gamevil's profit margin to over 50 percent
Free play, buy items model working well in Korea
Sponsored feature: Why Bight chose OpenFeint for Big Top 10
Because if you can count, you want leaderboards
Playfish's Segerstrale says iPhone isn't ready for micro-transactions
It's better than mobile but not as good as Facebook
Analysts predict iPhone sales of 50 million p.a. by 2011
The only way is up
How Hi Corp's MascotCapsule is pushing iPhone performance
Will support OpenGL ES 2.0 and Android in future
Scoreloop: We're sitting in the iPhone social gaming sweetspot
A future based on challenges and virtual currency
Mobile social gaming tech company Scoreloop raises 2 million
Money for connecting friends
Full speed ahead: The making of Real Racing
How Firemint gained pole position
Tiger Style co-founder says App Store should be ranked by revenue
Not all downloads are equal
Opinion: App Store price deflation continues; Gangstar won't be top dollar
Gameloft won't bite the $9.99 bullet
App Store featured status lacks long term sales appeal
That's the conclusion from Moon Drop
App Store Analysis: Licence injection boosts Top 10 average price by 29 percent
Civilization Revolution at the top spot