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Hardware now a noose, not a life-line
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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
U Turn
Nintendo signs deal with DeNA to bring Mario and other IP to mobile
Will also operate open online service
Heart Of The Matter
Forget monetisation - F2P success is all about retention and engagement
Monetizer Mavens rethink their core
All That Glitters
Is ZeptoLab's King of Thieves stealing any app store gold?
The Charticle considers latest dungeon treasure game
Sending A Message
Burberry, Lamborghini, Hairdressers... It's the $10,000 Apple Watch question
How bling our the Mobile Mavens?
Ios Extender
From $349 to over $10,000, Apple Watch will be available from 24 April
What's going to be on your wrist?
Long Term Goals
Jeferson Valadares on building Bandai Namco Games America's mobile business
Waking a sleeping giant
Daily Grind
Following a 4 cent ARPDAU testcase boost, DeNA partners with Fyber in US
Maximising monetisation
Watch And Paid
Crossy Road has now generated $3 million with Unity Ads
Opt-in, seamless and high monetisation
Blown Away
A rebranded Storm8 announces 1 billion downloads
Network is the way
21 Platforms
Split into personal and professional editions, Unity 5 is now live
Added Cloud Build and graphical features
Coming Alive
Animoca Brands is making a Paris Hilton mobile game
Endorsing by the celebutante
Maximising Ltv
Tapjoy's new platform will predict your players' behaviour and monetisation
Introducing the Future Value Map
Heroic High
Innospark's CEO on why its debut game Hero Sky is the spiritual successor to Warcraft III
Jae Chan Shin is shooting for the sky
The Next Puzzle
Hall of Fame: Kazuki Morishita
GungHo Online CEO on bringing people joy
By Us For Us
Ignited Artists CEO Danielle Deibler on its staff-first approach to making core mobile games
Superpowered by Sega Networks investment
More Or Fewer
Does the quality of a game trump the quantity of games?
Our Mavens get feisty over the way ahead
World Of Possibilities
Going mobile, NetEase opens US office to become more global
David Ting heads up new move
Gift Wrapped For Devs
Thanks to Alibaba, Baidu and Yandex integrations, Flexion's wrapper adds 20 million users
Alternative channels
This Good Takes
Sega's investment wasn't about the cash, it was about Japan, says Space Ape
Toby Moore on a strategic move
Hot Wings
Rovio hooks up with Kunlun to make Angry Birds for China
Beyond localisation
Amplified Activity
Storm8 CEO Perry Tam on why its network-first approach trumps all
Driving syngeries from every game install
New Stream
Zynga generated $153 million of revenue from in-game ads in 2014
Money for old eyeballs
Long Game
Why Kabam chose LTV over ARPDAU
Monetizer Mavens on maximising F2P return
Ads The Way To Do It
Animoca Brands on its hit resistant, high volume strategy for mobile gaming success
The more the better says CEO
East To West
Firefly Games raises $8 million to bring top Chinese games to US
Ex-ZQGame president reloads
Aces High
Gambling software outfit Playtech buys GameMaker dev YoYo Games for $16.4 million
Making better gambling games
Grinding Up
How Heroes Charge charged up the top grossing charts in Germany, Russia, Korea and the US
Power of TV advertising
Week That Was Money
The good, the great and the ugly: Com2uS, Gamevil, Zynga and King announces 2014 financials
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Slowing Decline
Despite going majority mobile, Zynga sees 2014 revenue down 21% to $690 million
Hard year ahead
Banhammer Trumps Guns
Apple bans App Store screens with characters holding guns, but not melee weapons
Enforcing 4+ age ranking on metadata
Battle Nations Saga
Expanding into new genres, King buys Z2Live for up to $150 million
Second midcore acquisition
Flash Cash
Spouting a fountain of cash, King sees 2014 sales up 20% to $2.4 billion
More players, less payers but they're paying more
Research Cash
Metaps raises $36 million to research smarter AI for better UA
Goal to become the world's brain
Scattergun
Why all data on the size of the Chinese mobile game market is wrong
Making it up as they go
Plan Of Action
Gamevil's future success will be built on global RPG mega brands and support for 15 languages
How to reach $200 million in 2015
Ads The Way
Appsfire acquired by Mobile Network Group for a rumoured $30 million
Going for scale
Financial Roundup
Snapshot of Korean mobile game company financials
Marking mobile gamings winners and losers
Big Year
Thanks to southeast Asia, Com2uS sees 2014 sales up 188% to $216 million
International sales up 523%
Ambition Rising
With 2014 sales up 79% to $131 million, Gamevil predicts 2015's sales will rise another 120%
Korean RPGs drive the growth
On The Rise
PC and mobile games drive 29% rise in NetEase's 2014 sales to $2 billion
Building from PC to mobile
Financial Roundup
Snapshot of Japanese mobile game company financials
Marking mobile gamings winners and losers
Higher Standards
Supercell pulls the plug on fourth game Spooky Pop
Soft launch wasn't a success
The Road Ahead
What advice would you give a F2P developer without $500,000 for UA?
Our Mavens debate broken app stores, crippling UA costs and a misguided bar for success
Hot Five
Glu gets Perry, Norway is small but booming, and Neeson52 is Angry
Last week's top 5 stories
Tough Times
DeNA still in transition with FY14 Q3 revenues down 4%
But coin sales on the up
Oops I Did It Again
Glu's market cap rises $150 million on strong 2014 financials and the promise of Katy Perry
Overnight sensation
Pocket Showroom
Porsche reveals Cayman GT4 in Real Racing 3 update
Complete challenge for in-game ownership
A New Window
Marmalade and Microsoft add second tier to Windows Developer Offer
Win $2,000, a Surface Tablet, and 1 million ad impressions
Bubble M&a
Four years on, GREE writes off $75 million from its OpenFeint acquisition
Also drops $78 million from Pokelabo deal