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We all made mobile games more awesome in Minsk
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Jon Jordan
Job Title
Contributing Editor
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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
Deal
CMGE gains rights to make Hello Kitty games in China
License to print money?
Investment
Fiksu raises $10 million to supercharge global expansion
Takes debt funding from Silicon Valley Bank
Data
The average saving when buying an App Bundle is $5.64
AppFigures does the math
Chart Of The Week
RPGs take top grossing share from card-collection games on Japanese Google Play charts
Metaps marks the changes
Investment
Buoyant Helsinki: Small Giant Games raises $3.1 million
Round led by Creandum
Interview
The story so far: Pocket Gems on five years of growth
Daniel Terry looks back and forward
Reading List
Reading List: Freemium Economics: The Savvy Manager’s Guide
Eric Seufert on leveraging analytics and user segmentation to drive revenue
Interview
Reliance Games CEO on making games for the Indian market as well as nurturing local developer talent
Manish Agarwal on the coming opportunity
Financials
KongZhong announces special dividend worth $40 million
Buttering up the shareholders
Investment
OurPalm invests $30 million into loss-making subsidiary FingerFun
Moving money around
Gameloft brings Twitch streaming to iOS versions of Heroes of Order & Chaos
Third game from the publisher to support streaming platform
Now we are 5: Apple adds iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 to iPad Air, iPad mini 2 and iPad mini range
Consumer segmentation runs wider
Investment
Education gaming outfit Osmo raises $12 million
Series A led by Accel Partners
Interview
Tangible Play on $2 million pre-orders, $12 million funding and Apple approval for its Osmo learning platform
Disrupting kids education one iPad at a time
Animoca closes $10 million joint venture deal for Star Girl franchise
Crosby Capital becomes majority owner
Video
Can crowdfunding move from rewards to equity?
David B Hoppe considers the future
Data
Final Fantasy's Sakaguchi first F2P game Terra Battle hits 500,000 downloads
Pushing the social aspect
Qihoo 360 targets 30% share of Chinese mobile search within 2 years
Another way to win in app distribution
Live Mobile
Don't have 10 million MAUs, don't bother with merchandising says ex-Zeptolab CRO
Diana Moldavsky warns a hit game isn't a brand
Video
Why breaking into the lucrative Korean mobile games market is an uphill battle
Wisdom from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2014
Mistakes are good, but make sure you can survive them, says Mobile Mixer panel
Learnings from Vilnius
Gamevil partners with 8elements to open southeast Asia office in Singapore
Covering Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam
Understanding market research helps your game become a hit says Wooga's marketing head
Eric Seufert on design and total addressable market
Deal
Temple Run 2 to add the option to buy real-world NFL players
Kaepernick and Wilson will be first two in rotation
We kicked off our European Autumn Mixer Tour in Berlin
Thanks to SkyMobi and GameGenetics
Deal
Passing the baton: GREE sets up a joint venture to make games for LINE
Social platform wins over games platform
Amazon is discounting its Appstore Coins by 20% until 19 October
Free money, sort of
Interview
Zynga on persuading committed players to upgrade to New Words With Friends
The best just got better
Jobs
Storm8 hires ex-Zynga pair to boost creativity and operations
Transplanting the 'Ville
Investment
IDG Capital drops $1.55 million on Cloudcade to drive F2P innovation
Seed round complete
Video
Why Hong Kong and Taiwan are key but often overlooked Asian markets
6waves' Arthur Chow makes the case
Data
Three weeks on, a majority of iOS users still haven't upgraded to iOS 8
A long wait for eight
Do you have 6 minutes 40 seconds of PechaKucha gold for PG Connects London 2015?
Wilhelm Taht is looking for entertainers
Video
How Hitcents defeated the pirates and built a business in China
Stuart Westphal's talk from PG Connects Helsinki
Interview
Tilting Point tweaks model to focus on new devs, individual games and maximum launch impact
COO Dan Sherman explains the changes
Chart Of The Week
Five crazy deals which have inflated the games M&A bubble during 2014
Show me the profits
Event
David Amor to keynote Games Funding Forum with his top 10 funding tips
New event on 23 October in London
DeNA drops Mobage branding
Simplifies its approach
Event
Meet Pocket Gamer at the Brazil Game Show 2014
Going big in San Paulo
Investment
Hugo Games raises $4 million for marketing new Hugo the troll games
Boosting the troll
Promiscous Gamer
Goth Chris, learning the way of the tank and spates with Willow Pape
This guy will pl*y anything as long as it's free
Video
SkyMobi on targeting the bulk of Chinese mobile gamers who live in third tier cities
Knowledge from PG Connects Helsinki 2014
Video
Chinese mobile gamers want pay-to-win says localisation expert
Knowledge from PG Connects Helsinki 2014
Monetizer Mavens
The power and potential of card-collection mechanics for F2P mobile games
The Monetisation Maven ponder trumps and jokers
Jobs
AdColony hires ex-Grand Cru, Wooga marketing man Thorbjorn Warin
Bulking up in Europe
Hot Five
Charging for updates, escaping the trope of violence, India is ripe, and refining, refining, refining
Last week's top 5 stories
Financials
Shanda to award 8 key staff golden handcuffs worth at least $13 million
Please stay
Data
Eight days on, iOS 8 adoption rate is around 30%
Apple's estimate seems rather high
Financials
Shanda sees Q2 FY14 mobile game sales up 31% to $14 million
Chain Chronicle gives a boost