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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
Talk Talk
Speaker submissions for the Develop: Brighton 2016 now open
Conference running 12-14 July
Outgunning The Rest
No competition: Machine Zone owned the US UA battlefield in Q4 2015
Sensor Tower reveals the damage
Online Focused
Amazon announces Web Services and Twitch-integrated Lumberyard game engine
Console now, mobile to come
Turning The Page
Rovio's decoupling continues as book publishing activity spun out
Books become separate affiliate
Touchdown
How Madden NFL Mobile became EA Mobile's MVP
Anchored to the Super Bowl
On The Up
Strong Madden NFL Mobile growth sees EA Mobile's sales up 3% to $128 million
But non-GAAP sales up 43%
Levelling Up
Com2uS' Summoners War-fueled growth continues with 2015 sales up 85% to $369 million
Another big year
Swift Rebound?
Despite 2015 sales of $250 million, Glu slips back into loss
Kim Kardashian is maturing
You Belong With Me
Glu continues its celebrity roll-up with a Taylor Swift mobile game due in 2016
Singing the same tune
Riding P&d's Long Tail
Blaming market saturation, GungHo sees 2015 profits down 23%
What's next?
Oem Muscle
Following Chinese Android success, Xiaomi releases Garfield Chef on iOS
Animoca Brands latest hook-up
Applications Open
Swedish game accelerator Stugan heads back to the woods for 2016
Spend the summer in Sweden
To Victory
FTUE: Path of War
A new strategy
Integrated
ChilliConnect adds Unity support for iOS
Backend tech embraces ubiquity
Fly, Fire, Upgrade
FTUE: Sandstorm: Pirate Wars
Post-apocalyptical
Not Taxing
Why did Myriad Associates come to PG Connects London 2016?
Barry Dowsett on R&D tax credits
Beyond A Clash
From C&C: Tiberium Alliances to Path of War: Can Envision successfully innovate core mobile strategy?
Martin Löhlein has a plan
Smart Money For Zombies
Walking Dead dev Next Games raises $10 million
Existing investors double down
Local Talent
How the Vancouver Economic Commission is helping game developers to thrive
Nancy Mott explains
Expert Knowledge
Rovio outsources its European ad sales business to Venatus Media
Better out than in
Cross Referenced
Data fiends Newzoo and deltaDNA combine forces to provide strategic mobile insights
More, accurate
Real-time Approach
Canadian startup Icejam raises $2.1 million to accelerate Playable Data vision
Opening Toronto office
Deeper Pockets
Deep linking platform Branch Metrics raises $35 million
Fixing UA
Listen Up
Zemeho explains its 'in-game Spotify' music service Valinta at PG Connects London 2016
Kimmo Kuusipalo reveals all
Social Scene
Hammer & Chisel raises $20 million for gamer messaging app Discord
Everybody talking
Are You Watching?
Unless Clash Royale takes off, eSports market won't be worth $1 billion until 2019
Newzoo puts figures on the growth
Making Some Noise
Why did UK indie JAM2Games come to PG Connects London 2016?
Meet and greet
Industry Buzz
Why did French indie Digixart come to PG Connects London 2016?
Meet and greet
Its The Finnovators
Dealing with success: is Finland still ahead of the game?
Small country, big games
Phone A Friend
Glu Mobile invests in and might acquire troubled QuizUp dev Plain Vanilla (if TV show works)
Last roll of the dice
By Us For You
Tony Garcia on Unity’s aim of democratising discovery in 2016
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Nascent
Apple TV not yet shaping up to be a gaming platform
Entertainment leads the way
Cash In
App Annie closes $63 million funding round to go more global
Gearing for IPO?
Quick And Simple
Publishing one game a week, Ketchapp is the new Atari says co-founder Antoine Morcos
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Force Multipler
Which Star Wars mobile F2P game took best advantage of The Force Awakens buzz?
EA vs Disney vs Kabam
Firm Foundations
PlayFab’s James Gwertzman on the importance of game ops tech for success in 2016... and beyond
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
View Not Play
Why mobile spectators, not mobile games, will be vital for eSports platform Azubu in 2016
Loic Argelies holds fire on mobile eSports
Get Together
Integration not silos is the future for mobile advertising and marketing in 2016, says Fyber’s David Diaz
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
No Easy Answers
Katy Perry versus Kim Kardashian: a study in surprising extremes
Charting success and failure
All Or Nothing
Goodgames' head of casual Daniel Persson on going global or going home in 2016
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Ua Roll Up
UA consolidation gathers pace as Fyber buys Heyzap for up to $45 million
Total reach tops 500 million MAUs
Scale Matters
Pollen VC’s Martin Macmillan on the challenges for mobile ad networks in 2016
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Big Day Coming
Ben Liu on why 2016 is the year of dreaming big for Pocket Gems
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Targeted Audience
2016 in Preview: Game personalisation tools will provide competitive advantage says deltaDNA's Mark Robinson
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Lodestones
6 mobile games you should have played in 2015
Best of the year
Matured
Flurry says the number of mobile game sessions declined in 2015
Where now for growth?
Community Power
2015 in Review: Space Ape's Simon Hade on ditching the UA funnel
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
From China
FTUE: Rush of Heroes
Level up
New Wave Ua
2015 in Review: Nexon M's John Robinson on the adoption of alternative marketing channels
Future trends from the remembrance of things past