Financial Results
Renren tries to reposition as 2013 revenue drops 2% to $157 million
Games unit hit by $3.5 million restructure
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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
Discount Your Engines
Crytek undercuts Unreal 4 by $9 a month
Get CryEngine-as-a-service program
Let Them Pay
Ouya drops free-to-try restriction
Devs can't cope with creating a demo, apparently
Financial News
Alibaba steps into the Kakao, LINE, WeChat, Viber, WhatsApp battle with Tango investment
Take a +20% stake thanks to $215M injection
Financial News
Gameloft's FY13 net income down 19% to $10.3 million
Spent $20 million on upgrading IT systems
Financial News
Kingsoft sees FY13 revenues up 54% to $356 million
Building a mobile gaming platform
Hot Five
Kabam buys Phoenix Age, iOS 7.1 highlights IAPs, and 10 developers reshaping the industry
Last week's top five stories
Big In Japan
Cross Horizon as cultural litmus paper, Docomo gets Dragon Quest X, and Final Fantasy Agito will repeat
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Chart Of The Week
Samsung is #1 OEM in China but hardly dominant
Non-Samsung market is three times bigger
Best In The East
Top 30 Chinese Developer 2014
Who's who in the fastest growing market
The Global View
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2014
The shakers, makers and movers
Lean, Mean, Money Scheme
We're a group-buying scheme to make our developers more successful, says Unity CEO Helgason
Unity 5 works harder so you don't have to
Latin American Rising
Get all the details at M2Games LATAM 2014
Happening 24-25 April in Miami
Publishing Services
Roadhouse Interactive offers a new deal for new market realities
Keep control, gain expertise
Investment News
Chinese casual F2P publisher FunPlus raises $74 million for global expansion
A bet on Family Farm?
Food, Booze & Pics
All the fun from the Top 50 Developer 2014 VIP dinner
Champagne for everyone
Time To Play
Google adds support for real-time iOS-Android multiplayer to Play Game Services
What's Apple next move?
King In Reverse
Giant Interactive goes private in $1.6 billion share buyback
Deal values publisher at $3 billion
Games To Watch
Flappy Bird clone is top of the Pebble Appstore
Bird is the word
Closing And Moving On
Wormhole Games shrinks to a dot, CEO Jamil Moledina joins Google Play
Tank Nation dev
Broadcast Your Mobile Skills
Twitch goes mobile, launching with Gameloft's Asphalt 8
The stream is live
New Sdk Out Now
Tapjoy announces nGen platform to monetise the 'other 95%'
Moving beyond the offerwall
New Name, New Start
Kontagent+PlayHaven emerges as integrated analytics and marketing play - Upsight
One dashboard, one SDK
Top 50
PocketGamer.biz's top 50 mobile developers of 2014 starts here
First batch of 10 revealed today
China Gets Its Ouya
ZTE to release Tegra 4-based Fun Box console
Due out in March
Big Vision In 2014
Social Point looks to mobile action-strategy genre to boost 2014 sales to $100 million
Spanish outfit wants to deepen the experience
Hit F2p Games On Horizon
Big Fish looks to go midcore, will publish debut F2P game from ex-Zynga Dallas team
Boss Fight Entertainment signs on the dotted line
Bitcoin's Not Dead!
Vungle and InAppCoins add BTC as a payment method
Value of numbers
Charticle Special
How launching 14 language versions made Castle Clash the world's #2 mobile strategy game
How to deal with word fragmentation
Financial News
Chinese publisher Ourgame rumoured to be considering a $150 million IPO
Following Boyaa and Forgame?
Investment News
Forgame spends $94.2 million on a 21% stake in Tower of Saviors dev Mad Head
Consolidation China-style
Flashing The Cash
ChangYou triples down on mobile games with $600 million developers program
Are you into the CYOU Win Plan?
Financial News
Gumi and Ankama join forces for a strategic mobile partnership
Reading between the lines - expect more Dofus
Financial News
King's IPO share price range values company higher than Zynga and GungHo but lower than EA
Upper limit would see King worth $7.55 billion
Publishing Arm In Arm
DragonVale dev Backflip launches publishing move with Rolando studio HandCircus
Ex-ngmoco man Simon Jeffrey heading up efforts
Fee Fi Fofofum
Sleepy Giant will keep you up 24/7 with backend services play fofofum
Industrial Toys' Midnight Star first game to use tech
Inspired
Dot Warrior Games on making the 'anti-Puzzle & Dragons' and why Japanese indies need to blossom
Playing F2P games is a little stressful for me...
Top Ouya Game Asian Deal
CJ E&M gets mobile publishing rights for ChronoBlade in Asia
nWay's Ouya actioneer going mobile later in 2014
Financial Results
Perfect World sees FY13 revenue up 10% to $504 million
First hardcore mobile game has been promising
Deeper Relationship
DeNA looks to widen its UA net with Zedge hook up
Connecting valuable users to interesting games
Chart Of The Week
3 graphs that demonstrate the opportunities and challenges of China's mobile games market
Big, fragmented and in transition
Sponsored Feature
What you won't want to miss at Game Connection America 2014
Highlights during 17th-19th May
Short Cuts
Oscar Clark on how F2P design enables better games
Turning the argument on its head
Promiscuity Pays?
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Royal Revolt II rushes into play with a $4.99 spend
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Interview
Clash of Clans was tower defense 2.0. We're working on 3.0, says Omnidrone
Spanish start-up on learning from the masters
Phone A Friend
QuizUp generated 10 organic installs per paid download
Fiksu lifts the curtain on marketing campaign
Financial News
Giant prepares to go mobile in 2014 with debut Kung Fu BBQ
Outfit reveals 2013 sales up 9.5% to $389 million
Financial News
Qihoo 360 sees FY13 sales up 104% to $671 million
Game operations up 145% to $253 million
It Lives
New Helsinki start-up Next Games to launch F2P take on The Walking Dead
Cos if you're making paid games, you're already dead
Not Just Big In Japan
LINE Cookie Run cooks up 10 million downloads in 30 days
And 8 million of them are outside Japan