Why Did The Chicken?
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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
Touchyfeely
Apple reboots iPod touch range with new colours and A8 chip
Something old, something new
Moba Or Moba$$$
Is Super Evil's longterm approach to Vainglory monetisation coherent?
Our Monetizer Mavens look ahead
Futureshock
With a 10x opportunity in the west, we're not even close to peak mobile gaming. says Neil Young
N3twork CEO is bullish
Middle Kingdom Data
New Chinese report claims its Android gaming market will be worth $3.6 billion in 2015
Newzoo and TalkingData launch monthly report
Right Whales
You need to love your F2P game and love your F2P players, says GodFinger 2's dev Jiggery Pokery
Matthew Wiggins on real success
New Vision
Why Patrick O'Luanaigh is convinced VR gaming will be a success
But not in 2016
Psychological Hooks
Western devs need to think more about chance and less about skill says Marvelous' Harry Holmwood
New ways to win
Glass Half...
Halfway through: Mobile Mavens rate 2015 so far
Their hopes and fears
Prophetic Words
Flashback Friday: Machine Zone's Gabe Leydon on redefining mobile gaming as an intense 24/7 activity
Everything else will feel slow
Ranking The Vision
How is Oculus Rift shaping up compared to Morpheus and Vive?
Our VR Mavens discuss if it still has first mover advantage
Branded Good
HyprMX launches its simple video incent ad management system HyprMediate
Highest paying videos selection
Branded Values
Ad campaign pushes 600,000 players of Google's location game Ingress to visit AXA insurance offices
Click and collect
Super Hero
Despite super villainous file size, Marvel Future Fight hits 20 million downloads
Netmarble has a big hit
Pulling The Plug
KongZhong is latest Chinese NASDAQ-floated company to consider going private
Trend gathers pace
Smart Calls
EEDAR's Patrick Walker on the importance of brands and segmentation in a maturing, global market
Times are changing
Sweet Tune
Positioning for investment and growth, Marmalade adds to board
Digital music man Ben Drury joins
Moba On The Move
As it goes cross-platform with Android support, Vainglory announces 1.5 million MAUs
Also moving into eSports
New Challenge
Unity bizdev man Mika Kuusisto joins Outfit7 to head revenue drive
Talking Tom has a new friend
New Tricks
Western devs should look east to improve monetisation, says Fuse Powered's CEO
What to expect at PG Connects San Francisco 2015
Supercharged
Glu beefs up Racing Rivals with month-long WWE event
Muscle men meet muscle cars
No(t Much) Comment
NaturalMotion excited but tight-lipped over anticipated release of Dawn of Titans
Torsten Reil plays with a straight bat
Franchise Power
It's peaked but what's surprising is Fallout Shelter's top grossing decline is so slow
Two weeks on, still strong in UK and US
My Aim Is True
Flaregames on how Zombie Gunship Inc fits into its boutique publishing approach
Klaas Kersting says fewer is more-r
Free Fun Zone
We'll be aggressive on fun, not monetization, says Zombie Gunship Inc dev Limbic
Arash Keshmirian likes to blow up zombies
Everything, Everywhere
Double-edged but brands are crucial to crack the competitive mobile gaming market says Animoca's Chow
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015
Optimise Your Funnel
Player Research's Graham McAllister on why you need to hone UX before spending on UA
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015
Diminishing Returns
Is your portfolio diversified against brand and celebrity market saturation, asks TinyCo's Jeremy Horn?
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015
Helsinki Calling
Helsinki dev Boomlagoon looking for 'awesome' producer and 'epic' designer
Join the Monsu crew
Cashin' & Kingin'
Mobile eSports outfit Cashplay kicks off celebrity push with Tyga - Kingin' World Tour game
First deal of many
Secret Germanic Hook Up
Chimera and Fishlabs announce they're working together on an unannounced midcore mobile game
More details to come
Helping Hands
Moonrise dev hires Microsoft and Square vet Ted Woolsey as GM
Another notch
Expand On All Fronts
Innospark raises $6.5 million to expand into China with cross-platform midcore games
Keytone Ventures leads the round
#pgcsanfran Smarts
You need to match brand and game quality, says Hitcents' Macy Mills
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015
Free Money
Why Helsinki start-up Futureplay is going ad-first but not ad-only
Jami Laes on combining ad revenues with IAP
Streaming Service
Find out what Riccitiello and Helgason are saying in the Unity Europe 2015 keynote from 10am CEST here
Direct from Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek
Shelter Or Shanty?
Why the immediate success of Fallout Shelter can't be sustained
Our Monetisation Mavens think long-term
Middle Kingdom Expansion
When Chinese mobile gaming market growth isn't happening in China
Confusion from iResearch
Wrist Power
Our most active Runeblade players are clocking 100 sessions daily, says Apple Watch dev
Aki Jarvilehto is amazed
Power Of Pewdiepie
Seriously's Phil Hickey on the new ways of marketing mobile games
What to expect at PG Connects San Francisco 2015
West Is Best
One year and $120 million later, is Kim Kardashian: Hollywood still top grossing?
How is Glu's celebrity hit aging?
Time To Judge
Two months on, our Wearable Mavens debate if Apple Watch has a killer app?
Or does lack of battery life trump all
App Store Explosion
What can the mobile games industry learn from Fallout Shelter's success?
Mavens debate a perfect storm and ability to sustain
Shooting Up In 2016
Flaregames signs up Limbic's F2P Zombie Gunship sequel
New graphics, new model for Zombie Gunship Inc
#pgcsanfran Ua Survival
Spacetime's Ari Sapriel on helping indies deal with the complex user acquisition ecosystem
Doing more with less
Maturing F2p Markets
Analysis shows fewer spenders but higher spending in Clash of Clans, Game of War and Candy Crush Saga
Return Path digs into player behaviour
All Change
Kiwi ceases current operations as it sells 'cash-positive' games to longtail expert RockYou
San Francisco dev pulls back
Balancing Acts
How Directive Games hopes to shake up core mobile gaming and its backend tech
Ambitious Chinese-Icelandic outfit has big plans
#pgcsanfran Fireside Smarts
DeNA West CEO Shintaro Asako on the power of 'glocal'
That's thinking globally but acting locally
Silver Screen Or Fool's Gold?
Can mobile games head successfully to the movies?
Our Mavens settle back with a large cup of popcorn