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Through a glass darkly?
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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
Slitherine makes a significant advance into mobile strategy, acquiring Shenandoah Studio
Wargaming specialists combine
UK trade body Ukie launches its games policy manifesto
Looking to influence the next government
Temple Run goes first person as it supports Samsung Gear VR
Run away from arctic demon monkeys
Samsung goes virtual with its Note 4-powered Gear VR headset
Partnering with Oculus and launch game from DeNA
Deals
M&A the Chinese way: 5 surprising acquisitions of game companies
Reading between the lines
Interview
We're running 50,000 competitions daily says iOS real-money competition platform Skillz
A new monetisation stream?
Deals
Consortium swap: 3 new investors including a textiles company step up to take Shanda Games private
Stranger and stranger
Deal
Hoolai tests the hardcore appetite of WeChat players with War of Immortals
Successful web game goes mobile
Mobile Mavens
Steel Media's finest ponder #gamergate and the future of games journalism
YouTube and Twitch replacing the written word?
Chart Of The Month
Q2 in review: IGG and CMGE's growth impresses, while Zynga, King and GungHo have the cash to strike
Breaking down the financial quarter
Financials
Despite having $100 million in the bank, LineKong files for Hong Kong IPO
The rich get richer
Promiscous Gamer
Trials Frontier rises above, Crazy Taxi's right on time, and WWE SuperCard folds
This guy will pl*y anything as long as it's free
Jobs
Fishlabs looks to hire 25 as it staffs up another production team
Hamburg dev futureproofs with a new office
Mobile Mavens
Primed with a Twitch: Will Amazon ever be a serious gaming company?
Our Mavens go Prime
Interview
How AppSealing protects your Android games from hacking
Stronger security from $595
Interview
Brand video ad network HyprMX questions, Why are you advertising your rivals' games?
Time to turn off UA ads?
Deal
Flaregames get another drop, signing Fuzzycube's Epic Loot
Ensemble veterans on the dotted line
Financials
KongZhong's mobile sales boom in FY14 Q2 up 30% to $10.5 million
Has another 5 titles ready to go
Interview
How Voxel's interactive adverts are reinventing UA's core loop
CEO David Zhao on better users and higher install rates
Deal
Qihoo 360 signs up Goodgames' Empire: Four Kingdom for China release
First deal of its kind
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Vladimir Funtikov
Creative Mobile CEO on learning early
Making Of
A spectacular leap: The making of Trials Frontier
How RedLynx's physics racer finally came to mobile
Interview
Game Insight's new CEO on going 3D and hardcore while becoming more player-centric
Anatoly Ropotov on the road ahead
Financials
Renren sees FY14 Q2 game revenue slide 27% to $15 million
Mind the gap
Miniclip, Matmi and Bossa talking at TIGA's Smartphone and Tablet Games conference
All happening on 18 September in London
Interview
InMobi on how its native first emotionally lead approach can increase CPMs to $20
Leveraging player's emotional state
Mobile Mavens
Love your game vs. Hope you die: Is Twitter worth the hate?
The Mavens think personal about social media
Deal
Peak Candy Crush delayed as Tencent releases King's top grosser in China
A whole new kingdom opens up
Video
Why QA is even more important for F2P games
Panel wisdom from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki
Deals
GungHo makes $74 million selling its share of Supercell back to SoftBank
Japanese dev is now focusing on Asia market
Going big in the Big Apple at the NY Games Conference 2014
Opening its doors on 8 September
Video
Mobile and console games are combining into a sweetspot says Remedy's Myllyrinne
Conclusions from PGC Helsinki IP Power Panel
Opinion
7 reasons why the Chinese mobile games market is a constipated mess for indies
Innovation can not get out
Investment
The wild wild east: Chinese construction company spends $960 million on Family Farm publisher DianDian
FunPlus reboots for more adventures
Financials
Perfect World sees FY14 Q2 sales up 4% to $150 million
DOTA 2 does the business in China
20 Slides, 400 Seconds
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki meets PechaKucha
20 slides, 400 seconds
Monetizer Mavens
Monetizer Mavens on their best games of 2014 so far
Learning from the best
Financials
With 21 games in development, CMGE sees FY14 Q2 sales up 28% to $44 million
All systems go
Financials
Single player casual games drive SkyMobi's FY14 Q2 sales up 32% to $27 million
Net profit up 1,270%
Mobile Mavens
Our Mavens ponder whether King will 'do a Zynga?'
Or can it sustain 'peak' Candy Crush Saga?
Promiscuous Gamer
Comparing Kim Kardashian's frocks while unlocking Quagmire's silk leopard skin undies
This guy will pl*y anything as long as it's free
Chart Of The Week
Chart of the Week: How GungHo stole the Japanese mobile game industry from DeNA and GREE
Times they are a'changing
Video
Learnings from Aalto University's Game Executive program
Even CEOs need new tricks
Financials
Mobile still nascent but NetEase sees FY14 Q2 game revenue up 8% to $377 million
Looking to diversify portfolio
Financials
F2P success see G5's FY14 Q2 sales rise 86% to $6 million
Company also passes 170 million lifetime downloads
Financials
WeMade sees FY14 Q2 mobile revenues down 18% to $16.5 million
Wind Runner still in decline
Financials
Thanks to Legion of Heroes and FIFA 3, Nexon sees FY14 Q2 mobile sales up 16% to $82 million
But native games only account for 38%
Interview
Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iraq are key markets says MENA specialist Babil
The rise of the Arabic region as a gaming hotspot
Video
How 200 Finnish game developers generated $1.2 billion in 2013
The facts and figures of the Finnish games industry