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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
Everywhere
Friday Flashback: Your only certainty is uncertainty. Welcome to the world of the unconsole
It's time to get comfortable with being uncomfortable
Growth Path
IronSource and Supersonic merge to generate a company with $450 million annual sales
Israeli hook-up
Skywalking
How Kabam found balance in the force as it worked on Star Wars Uprising
Daniel Erickson on a star-sized IP
New Channel
Apple TV launch games include Galaxy on Fire 3 prequel, Gamevil's shooter Afterpulse and Skylanders SuperChargers
No flipping
Press Harder
Pixel Toys' Warhammer 40K: Freeblade demos gaming potential of iOS 9's new 3D Touch
More bangs for your buck
Straight Up
F2P doesn't work for small indies now, says Flick Fishing dev Strange Flavour as it reverts to paid
Discovery and player perceptions both challenges
Opportunities
Starting with China, how Kabam is looking to boost Asian revenues beyond 10%
Chris Petrovic on Marvel Contest of Champions' debut
Vision Thing
Unity's Helgason on the importance of stupidity, going against the grain, and focus, focus, focus for mobile success
PGC Helsinki's fireside chat
Finnovation
We don't make clones. We'll make our fresh F2P games a success or die, says PlayRaven CEO
Lasse Seppänen on death or glory
Testing, Testing
Games that spend more than one month in soft launch can increase retention by 20% says deltaDNA
Patience is a virtue
Most Read
Glu's CEO talks LTV, Mavens discuss the $10B mobile game, and Paradise Bay’s monetisation inspected
The top stories of last week
Money Talks
Games Funding Forum 2015 announced for 15 October
Funding matters
A Wonder
Dominations does 1 million downloads in Japan, Korea and Taiwan
Building a civilisation
Catch 'em All Randomly
Should western F2P designers be using more Gacha, Fusion and Collection mechanics?
The Monetisation Mavens debate
Remixed
Raven becomes Evilbane as Netmarble renames its top grossing Korean RPG for international release
Flown away
Next Platform
AppsFlyer extends to support UA on Instagram
Selfie that
Out With A Bang
Undead Labs opens fungates in soft-launched Moonrise prior to 31 December shutdown
Getting experimental
Bulking Up
West-to-China publisher MyGamez announces 9 million MAUs and new funding round
Growing portfolio
Foundational
Basemark to underpin OSVR open standards ecosystem for VR
Better together
Soft Bulletin
Can Instagram be a strong UA channel? Apsalar thinks so
Selfies and six packs
Building Up
#PGCHelsinki speaker Johannes Peltola on rebuilding SimCity for the F2P generation
What to expect at PG Connects Helsinki 2015
Freebies
Gameloft joins the Amazon Underground experiment
Drops 4 games into play
Thinking Bigger
Is the $10 billion mobile game franchise inevitable?
Our Mavens ponder big numbers
Trumps
GSN Games is expanding in Palo Alto with new office and open positions
Relocation, relocation, relocation
Experiential
Grand Cru shuts down Supernauts to focus on new 2016 launch
Better next time
Things Don't Look Closer...
VR revolution pushed back to 2016 as Vive's launch slips
Looking further ahead
Micro-transact That
Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?
Two new approaches
Sell Yourself
Women in Games Conference announces personal branding panel with Yogscast co-founder Hannah Rutherford
What to do to get ahead
Localising
COLOPL, the most successful Japanese company you've never heard of, is heading west
From Japan to SF
Road Ahead
Mobile remains a very viable market for indies, says Tilting Point's new CPO
Harder but not impossible
German Powerhouse
How Flaregames found success by learning from its failures
Klaas Kersting is on the up
Open Door
Tilting Point hires Gameloft Americas VP Samir El Agili as its new CPO
Staffing up
Market Liquidity
TROPHiT announces its revolutionary virtual item exchange network
Re-engage through re-use of old assets
From The Horse's Mouth
#PGCHelsinki speaker Peter Willington on trends in mobile games PR from a journalist's point of view
What to expect at PG Connects Helsinki 2015
Primal Scream
Are mobile games with an 'action mouth' icon more successful?
IronSource reckons so
A Golden Ratio
How Glu Mobile balances UA spend and in-game advertising revenue
Spend vs Save
Myriad Devices
How Testbird worked with DeNA to prime One Piece for Chinese success
Fixing critical bug
Case Closed
Hothead Games settles with Glu over Deer Hunter 2014 copying claim
Payments are now ongoing
Dynamic
F2P market is evolving faster than game diversity, argues #PGCHelsinki speaker Lasse Seppanen
What to expect at PG Connects Helsinki 2015
Core Move
iDreamSky invests $10 million into US core dev Rumble Entertainment
Big bet
Sweet
Friday Flashback: Candy Crush Saga revealed as the second 'billion dollar' mobile game
Puzzle & Dragons has a rival
Growth Area
With advertising already 19% of sales, Zynga is building out its own PMP to attract big brand dollars
Sticky eyeballs
Mind The Gap
A Candy Crush Saga hole sees King's sales down 14% to $490 million
Bitter pill
New Location
Ingress dev Niantic Labs spins out from Google mothership
Safety blanket jettisoned
Sharp Edges
Pixel Toys announces heavy mecha Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade game
Future war today
Looking Up
Unity announces Vision Virtual and Augmented Reality Summit 2016
Running from 10-11 February 2016
Catapulted
Angry Birds 2 does 30 million downloads in two weeks
Birds and pigs are flying
Hooked
Palringo uses the power of rare fish to raise $310,785 for charities
Annual drive
Play Nice
#PGCHelsinki speaker Shin Kanaoya on why western games need to be more shinsetsu to Japanese gamers
What to expect at PG Connects Helsinki 2015