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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
Mobage levers platform-wide approach with 100,000 MobaCoin giveaway
Boosting Facebook presence in the process
AppsFlyer raises $7.1 million to expand mobile app tracking tech
Going faster, more global
Ex-Googler Patrick 'Mad' Mork on making F2P tablet-focused action RPGs the right way
Unpeeling new dev Unspoken Tales' strategy
Mork, Foe, Deibler and Trento combine to create Unspoken Tales
A development supergroup coalesces
Charticle Special: Aeria Games' success in operating Immortalis as a local language service
Tracking the French, German and Russian versions
Monetizer Special: Analysing hard-to-soft currency conversion rates in F2P games that use a 'percentage fill' IAP economy
Delving into the guts of F2P monetisation techniques
Reading List: Games As A Service
Oscar Clark on how F2P design makes better games
Pay Rise
Number of Chinese mobile game payers up 5-fold during 2013
So reckons research outfit TalkingData
Sega Sammy sees F2P revenues up 55% to $64 million in FY14 Q3
Successful Japanese games spreading through Asia
![[Updated] Aeria Games sells PC business and rebrands to focus exclusively on mobile](https://media.pocketgamer.biz/images/3552/57769/aeria_s320.jpg)
[Updated] Aeria Games sells PC business and rebrands to focus exclusively on mobile
ProSiebenSat.1 acquires assets including European office
Working with Wandoujia boosted Carrot Fantasy 2 to 1.4 million downloads in two weeks
App store value China-style
LINE signs up IGAWorks for its Free Coins platform
Linking advertisers with users buying virtual stickers
Another investor calls on Nintendo to 'embrace thematic change' and go mobile
The Big N-atives are restless
i-Free China wins two at JinPeng Android games awards
Demonstrating industry and consumer values
Following legacy write-downs, G5 sees FY13 sales up 24% to $15.6 million
And January sales are a record $2 million
Monetizer Special: Comparing three F2P games with 7-band IAP economies
Further adventures in virtual systems
Financials
SkyMobi goes 'majority smartphone', but sees Q3 2014 sales down 22% to $19 million
Mind the gap
KongZhong hopes to have turned the corner with Q4 mobile sales up 18% to $5 million
Driving for smartphone growth
Mobile generating the majority of growth in video advertising, reckons SupersonicAds
Total video budgets up 70% in 2013
Play Or Pay
Middle-aged women play but Generation Y pays
Results from PlayPhone's Mobile Gaming Chronicles
Sponsored feature: iLogos CEO Alexander Goldybin on why demand for co-production is booming
Ways to derisk your development
Whatsup?
PlayPhone brings the social virality of Tango's 190 million users to its games platform
Carriers on the Fightback... With Friends
How Dhoom:3 became the first game to one million downloads on the Indian Windows Phone Store
99Games on building a 10 million success
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Got double Honors, and dropped $5 down the Dungeon (Keeper)
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Facebook reinforces mobile strategy with $19 billion WhatsApp acquisition
Paying $48 per user
WeMade sees FY13 mobile revenue jump 1037% to $132 million
Thanks to Wind Runner, mobile games is 62% of total
The F2P value chain is ripe for fragmentation and the emergence of specialist funding, says Tenshi
We have the data and the opportunity
GREE sees FY14 Q2 sales down 7% to $310 million, but international sales rise to $72 million
Feature phone gaming collapses
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Epic Empire's reborn, Fightback fights back, and love those Naughty Kitties
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
NetEase sees 2013 sales up 17% to $1.6 billion
Looking to take on Tencent with its YiChat platform
Appy loves you. All IAPs now priced at 99c
It's a stark experiment in monetisation shock
Nexon's mobile sales slip 5% to $64 million in FY13 Q4
Division made up 19% of total sales
Unity has its strengths but we chose Unreal Engine 4 to stand out from the crowd, says Rodeo Games
Taking mobile games to the next level
With single SDK integration and a Finnish business mentality, we make it safe for western devs to release in China, says MyGamez
Bridging two cultures
Thank to LINE and Kakao partnerships, Metaps sees its platform enable 1 billion app downloads
Scaling up Asian Android distribution channels
Gamevil announces record FY13 sales up 16% to $76 million
Kakao is eclipsed as international sales rise to 57%
50% better: Supercell becomes a three-game-company as 'risky' Boom Beach launches in March
But no games coming to Windows Phone
Supercell's 2013 revenue was $892 million
Or $689 million under GAAP
Updated: Chinese outfit Sungy buys Android app store GetJar for up to $78 million
Distribution is the world
Rodeo Games is first purely mobile studio to licence Unreal Engine 4
Game won't be out until 2015 though
MyGamez hits the ground running: bringing Hill Climb Racing, Badland and Benji Bananas to China
Best of Finland inbound to Android stores
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Getting stuck into Dungeon Keeper
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Changyou sees FY13 sales up 18% to $738 million
TLBB and Wartune drive record financials
Rebooting for F2P, G5 takes a $2.4 million write-down as it cancels 'unlockable' titles
Old casual game model is broken
The Charticle: The global performance of Big Fish Casino
Tracking cultural variations in attitudes to gambling
Chart of the Week: Averaging 102 sessions per week, Puzzle & Dragon dominates 2013 stats
Almost double that of Clash and three times Candy Crush
Google Play revenue unlocked for developers in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand
Opening the wallet
Competition and lack of releases sees sales slide 39% at Capcom Mobile
Nine months of pain
Fiksu and Tenshi reveal UA secrets in day-long workshop
All happening in London on 18 February