Deal
Sequoia invests $15 million in Indian mobile game outfit Octro
New opportunities
Staff
Jon Jordan
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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
Metaps buys market intelligence outfit App Data Bank
Japanese consolidation for smarts
Interview
No compromise between midcore and core. We're swinging hard for core, says Super Evil Megacorp CEO
Tablets as your primarily gaming device
Funding
Core tablet dev Super Evil Megacorp raises $11.6 million, nabs Segerstrale as COO
All systems go for MOBA devotees
Investment
Flexion raises $2.5 million to expand its 'off-Google Play' app distribution channel
Dealing with ecosystem fragmentation
Deal
Glu working on a F2P mobile game for fifth Terminator movie
Hitting screens and app stores in summer 2015
Making Of
Clash of alliances: The making of Samurai Siege
Passion for your game and your audience
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Vlad Suglobov
G5's CEO on riding the mobile boom
Interview
Mobile is still a strange beast to us, says AdventureQuest Worlds creator Adam Bohn
Challenges of going native
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Owen Faraday
Premium games to rise like a phoenix from the ashes of F2P
Deal
NTT Docomo signs Angry Birds subscription deal with Rovio
Includes games, toons and free in-game items
Apple surprises developers with iOS 8's Metal graphics API and Swift programming language
Upgrade path from Objective-C and OpenGL
Opinion
Apple's garden is blooming but the walls are getting higher and inside the shadows are lengthening
Metal and Swift symbolic of proprietary pride
Rumour
Amazon offered us $600 million for Cocos2d-x, says Chukong CEO
Chinese outfit refused as it looks to IPO
Data
Mobile games account for 83% of market's current growth
Tail wagging the dog
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Timo Soininen, Small Giant Games
Using multiplayer to drive retention and longevity
Deal
Chorus to release The Secret of Raven Rock in Japan
Regional specialist building porfolio
Adways highlights power of its pre-launch Yoyaku Top 10 service in Korea
Smarter UA
Financials
SkyMobi looks to the future with $20 million stock buyback
Also reseting financial calendar
Rumour
$28 million rights issue suggests Glu Mobile is about to buy again
PlayFirst deal hasn’t sated appetite
Strongest Link
Thanks to Chain Chronicle, Sega Networks sees FY14 sales hit $200 million
Will soon be 50% of Sega Sammy's digital total
Deal
Kabam to make card-battling RPG based on The Hunger Games movies
Power of IP
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Jean-Philippe Decka, AppLift
App stores favour the incumbents
Investment
Danish startup Chroma Studios raises $300,000
Seed round
Financials
KongZhong sees mobile games boom in Q1 2014, with sales up 119% to $8 million
Three Kingdoms games score
Financials
Wind Runner's decline sees WeMade's Q1 2014 mobile sales down 33% to $19.3 million
Core up, but casual down more
Interview
The global game: Colopl on bringing skills-based JRPG Slingshot Braves to the west
Not pay-for-win
EA shuts down Mythic, while Harmonix sheds 37 jobs
Mind the gap
Russian powerhouse Game Insight relocates HQ to Lithuania
Corporate flexibility
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: James Vaughan
Plague Inc. creator on infecting the world
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Vladimir Funtikov, Creative Mobile
Time to get smarter about UA
Gingee rolls out very cross-platform development technology
Promises to support all current and future devices
Deal
Nexon takes stake in Socialspiel in return for exclusive publishing deal
Deal chain combo builds
Financials
SkyMobi's 2014 revenues down 19% to $78 million, but Q4 rises as smartphone platform accelerates
A tale of four quarters
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Mikael Haveri, Housemarque
Imbibe with the locals
Despite Q1 2014 sales up 208% to $60 million, Chukong postpones US IPO
Splitting development and tools operations
Data
Having generated $1 billion in sales, Kakao breaks 500 million downloads barrier
The power of friends
Deal
Kakao merges with Daum to create Korean internet powerhouse
Mobile messaging outfit valued at $3 billion
Job News
Ex-Disney Mobile exec Tim O’Brien joins Scopely as CRO
Back into startup mode
Chart Of The Week
Why game file size remains critical for success in China
20 MB is your soft limit
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Wandrille Pruvot, Art Of Click
Smart branding integration is a key opportunity
Post-line Generation
BeeTalk announces 10 million users, while customisation app Cocoppa breaks 25 million barrier
New ways to find Asian audiences
Interview
Tangible Play crowdfunds innovative vision-based education game Osmo for awareness, not cash
Not about consumer. About the movement
Monetizer Mavens
Is the proliferation of in-game currencies confusing players?
Introducing a new panel of experts
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Shintaro Kanaoya, Chorus
Surfing Japan's surge
Deal
Kabam and CJ E&M Netmarble partner up to release... ?
Undisclosed but probably Together Dungeon King
Financials
Renren's Q1 2104 game revenues collapse 52% to $12.7 million
Delays to new releases hits hard
Data
League of Legends dominates game usage in Chinese PC cafes
The MOBA opportunity for mobile
Opinion
Apple's IAP giveaways will reboot the entire app discovery system... and here's how
Real Racing 3 just the first fruit
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Matias Myllyrinne, Remedy
Winners won't be defined by what they know but how quickly they learn