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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
Wrist Positive
Why Apple Watch will drive LTV for games
Tango's Jim Ying on the next big thing
Rift Opens For Occulus
Google looks to standardise mobile VR around its Cardboard ecosystem
$20 wonder gaining market share
Giving It All Away
Amazon gives away $105 app and game bundle to drive Amazon App downloads
Alternative retailing
Fiery Launch
Pocket Gems takes flight with synchronous PvP-focused breed-and-battler War Dragons
Strategy game comes with Watch integration
Opening Up China
LoopMe to bring native video ads to Baidu, Cheetah Mobile and Sungy Mobile
Adding inventory
Signal To Noise
Is Facebook becoming a more expensive and less effective place to advertise mobile games?
CTRs down, CPCs up
Ceo Acquired
GameGenetics appoints Jeffry van Ede as CEO
Alexander Piutti remains in advisory capacity
Watch This
Apple giving away Apple Watch game Rules! for a limited period
It's an Apple Store app promotion
Badge Of Honour
Does mobile gaming have its Bloodborne?
Mobile Mavens ponder cultural significance
Leveled Up
Logres of Swords and Sorcery racks up 6 million downloads in Japan
Aiming and Marvelous' RPG on the up
Coming Up Trumps
Ex-Zynga exec Lloyd Melnick to lead Rational's social casino efforts
Second wave gambling
China Awaits
30 million downloads strong, but how well does Marvel: Contest of Champions monetise?
Valued superheroes
Trio In
Fuse Powered poaches three from Fyber to boost SF team
Good for growth
My Store My Rules
App Store featuring of CSR Racing IAP pack underlines promotion of iOS-exclusive paid content
Releases from Kabam, Ubisoft and Warners ignored
Hiring Hiring
251 jobs now open in the global mobile games industry
The latest mobile games job vacancies
NCsoft invests $5 million in Kabam spin-out This Game Studio
Vancouver gets another start-up
All Over Now
Shanda Games' convoluted NASDAQ buyout to finally close later in 2015
$1.9 billion cash deal accepted
Something Old
Mattrick out as Mark Pincus regains control at Zynga
Time for a CEO swap
Blowing Your Trumpet
Spil Games' Unsung Heroes initiative will ensure your game gets discovered
Setting the scene
Making A Match
It's got 10 million downloads, but is Best Fiends' generating millions?
Is Seriously's debut a hit?
Check Asx:olv
OtherLevels floats on Australian Securities Exchange
Marketing outfit on the rise
Square Eyes
InnoGames is latest game dev to spend big on TV ad campaigns
Targetting 25,000 spots
Vicarious Visions
John Riccitiello on why Unity talks about the money its developers are making
Tools are a means to an end
No Looking
Somethin' Else's Antoine Pastor on making a FPS using audio not graphics
Insights from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Big Catch
How Ace Fishing cast its net wide and found global succcess
30 million downloads later
Crack The Code
PlayRaven looking to fill 4 senior roles for new Spymaster game
Get this vital intelligence
Open To All
Designing for gamers with disabilities
Ian Hamilton talks accessibility
Present Tense
Is the mobile games industry now mature?
Mobile Mavens consider the case for future disruption
Decimation
Gumi looks to 'recover fast' internationally following a 100 jobs 'fast fail' in Japan
Predicting an annual loss
<3 Journalists
Plarium's top tips to get great PR for your game
Oren Todoros spills some beans
Espoo For You?
Rovio Stars is looking for 5 stars to build out publishing team
Rovio's publishing business on the move
Clean Noses
10 top legal tips for F2P game developers
Jas Purewal give tip-top advice
Swot
The challenges and opportunities for Nintendo as it makes the great leap to mobile
The Monetization Mavens consider the u-turn
No Substitutes
Why Nordeus is opening a 'blank slate' office in London
Won't be making sport games
Boom Times
Supercell sees 2014 revenue rise threefold to $1.7 billion
Earnings double to $565 million
Can Do Better
Why Rami Ismail is against the current implementation of F2P
It's not true to the spirit of video gaming
Flying High
Why KLM is publishing mobile games
Karlijn Vogel-Meijer on brand building
Tse Says Yes
One week on, investors add $6 billion to Nintendo and DeNA's value
The market gives unqualified support
Talk Talk
Alistair Aitcheson on why you should be always pitching
Advice from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Open Vacancies
Helsinki-based Next Games looking for game and server coders and production lead
Join The Walking Dead
All Or Nothing
F2P pioneer Jason Citron questions Nintendo's demarcation between design and operations
GaaS approach must be holistic not segmented
Omg Acronym Soup Lol
GREE hires Kabam's one-time VP of Revenue as its new VP GM RPGs
Keith Kawahata is levelling up
Rovio Rebound
Rovio sees 2014 sales drop 9% but game revenue is up 16% to $134 million
Merchandising decline hits margins
Finnish Secret
CEO Kim Soares on Kukouri's steady rise towards investment success
Building the studio behind Tiny Troopers
Cash Ringo
On the back of games business, Palringo's 2014 sales rise 100% to $14 million
And 50% profit margin
Two Wrongs
Why Nintendo's DeNA alliance is a match made in weakness and doomed to failure
Right move, wrong reasons
Rise And Rise
LoopMe CEO on the vast, open, $200 billion mobile advertising market
Any advertiser can now buy any slot
It's Me Mario!
How will Nintendo's beloved franchises go F2P?
Mobile Mavens debate Nintendo's entry to mobile games
Platform Focus
Satoru Iwata on the thinking behind Nintendo's "unexpected" alliance with DeNA
Looking for synergies