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Articles by Jon Jordan
Unconsole No More
Razer acquires Ouya
From Kickstarter to trade sale in three years
Co-op Mode
Starbreeze invests $1.4 million in Cmune to bring FPS Payday to mobile
Reloading for another run
A New Strategy
Strategy expert Goodgame Studios goes soft, announcing its first casual game
Hires King's Daniel Persson
Ua Flashback
Flashback Friday: User acquisition is a waste of money, and will eventually kill the mobile games industry
Money for nothing
Longterm Payoff
Innogames demonstrates F2P chops with first game over $100 million of lifetime revenue
From browser to mobile
Apple Core?
Supercell investors fund core Barcelona dev Winko Games
Seed round raises $1.4 million
Millions Of Curious Eyeballs
Why AdMob is now the exclusive advertising channel to access millions of Trivia Crack players
Etermax CEO Maximo Cavazzani trusts its fill-rate
Celebrating Openness
Two years from App Store rejection, AppGratis hits 10 million Android installs
CEO Simon Dawlatt on keeping your options open
Optimised Robot
We're opening up Android and driving innovation, says Cyanogen SVP
A new way to play
The Alternative
GungHo-owned Playphone signs up with Cyanogen to increase reach for its curated Game Store
An emerging store for emerging markets
Dash For Cash
It's accumulated 100 million downloads for Sega, but how many gold rings has Sonic Dash collected?
Most popular Sonic game ever
B Of The Bang
Still a nascent market, but there are now over 600 Apple Watch games
Category is 10 percent of total
Unseen Gems
Kongregate's Jeff Gurian on the importance of dark metrics
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015
Seeing Double Faster
Unity optimises its VR and AR optimisations in Unity 5.1
Gains a new rendering pipeline
Camelot & All That
Gamevil brings Asian hit CCG Million Arthur to western markets
Out on Google Play in 15 select countries now
Money And Mouth Aligned
NativeX on why it's offering new clients 20% higher CPM than their current best provider
CEO Robert Weber on a ballsy move
Time For Parity?
Are we still treating Android as a second class mobile gaming citizen?
Our Mavens circle the age old iOS-versus-Android debate
Candy & Popcorn
Cut the Rope's Om Nom gets a movie
Due in 2016
Indie Advice
China is already a top country for The Sandbox downloads, says Pixowl's Sebastien Borget
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015
Stealing A March?
Is the success of Google Cardboard good or bad for the future of VR?
Our VR Mavens see strengths and weaknesses
Timed For Movie Release
Rovio signs Lego deal for Angry Birds construction toys
Building and destruction
Screen Moves
Crossy Road, Does Not Commute and The Talos Principle released for Android TV
Google content dumps
A New Hope
Kabam finds the licence it was looking for: announces RPG Star Wars: Uprising
Bringing a classic approach from RPGs
On The Wrist
PlayScreen's William Volk on sharing Apple Watch tips at PGC San Francisco 2015
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015
History Ain't Bunk
Big Huge Games on taking the long view to strategy gaming success with DomiNations
Tim Train won't repeat his mistakes
Behavioural Types
From Whales and Dolphins to Money Dodgers and Explorers: What's the point of player archetypes?
Monetizer Mavens ponder the power of labels
Go Faster
MetalGL brings Metal API support from within OpenGL ES 2.0
iOS graphics bought back cross-platform
Need Another Superhero?
Doing ok in the west, Marvel Future Fight is really cooking up a storm in Asia
Netmarble's Marvel RPG is on the rise
Crossing Streams
Crossy Road devs invest $380,000 in ex-Halfbrick start-up Prettygreat
Hipster Whale co-founders gain shareholder/advisor status
Look No Hands
Should your mobile game have an auto-play mode?
Our Mobile Mavens debate skill and the lack of
Cheap But Popular
Google Cardboard underlines its leading VR status, with 1 million sold
Leaving Oculus in the dust
Ouya On Steroids
Nvidia powers up the Android TV revolution with its 4K-enabled Nvidia Shield
Available in $199 and $299 flavours
Local Knowledge
Ourpalm releasing Android version of Animoca Brands' Doraemon Gadget Rush in China
More channels
Scaling Up
Post-Scopely investment, Digit Game Studios looks to add 40 staff
Dublin developer on the move
Tick Tock
Native Apple Watch SDK beta expected post-WWDC 2015
Calls time on Phoney War
Today's Prediction
Mobile games to be worth over $22 billion in 2015... maybe
Superdata makes a guess
Question Of Time
Zombies, Run! CEO Adrian Hon on the challenges of smartwatch gaming
Small but on your wrist
You Play We Fab
Turn your game's virtual items into real cash with FabZat
Florent Pitoun explains the potential
Barbie's New Toy
Mattel partners with Animoca Brands to turn its IP into mobile games
Going mobile
World Of Deals
Wargaming hooks up with casual dev Melesta to experiment with business models
Belarusian love-in
Going Stella
Outplay aims for 40 million downloads of its games in 2015
Dundee dev states its goal
Ad Rank
AppsFlyer crowns AppLovin as best iOS ad network based on 1-, 7- and 30-day retention
Facebook still rules for reach, however
Slow To Market
Can those old dinosaurs Nintendo, Konami and Square Enix disrupt the mobile games market?
Mobile Mavens discuss the third wave
We Have Liftoff
Small Giant Games' debut Oddwings Escape does 1 million downloads in 6 days
Latest Finnish start-up's good start
Seeing Double
NDreams' Patrick O'Luanaigh on his VR epiphany
Challenges and opportunities
Fine Cut
Ex-EA technical director Adalberto Bruno joins Marmalade
Fast-tracking new platform integration
Half A World Away
Estonian game accelerator GameFounders prepares for Malaysian program with regional tour
3 weeks, 7 cities
No Lights No Camera Just Action
Mobcrush on why mobile is the native channel for live game streaming
Mobile DNA matters
Twitching
Pure-play mobile game streaming service Mobcrush raises $4.9 million
Looking to out-niche Twitch