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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
Why mobile payment expert Fortumo is advising Chinese devs to release internationally
Stressing the opportunities of emerging markets
Tilting Point and Quark to cooperate over multiple core mobile games
Next generation not-publisher signs fifth dev deal
Supercell investors back in play as Finnish start-up PlayRaven closes $2.3 million seed funding round
Looking to reinvent mobile strategy
Kabam announces 2013 revenues of $360 million
Year-on-year growth was 100 percent
Adways invests in 5Rocks to create better mobile marketing channel
Japanese ad and Korean data companies take on world
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Tomas Piktozis, SponsorPay
Video ads and word-of-mouth marketing will be key in 2014
Linekong raises $80 million in Series C round
Setting the scene prior to expected IPO
Big Bangs: The making of Colossatron: Massive World Threat
Halfbrick's tactical actioneer dissected
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Mika Kuusisto, Applifier
Don't forget what's most important - amazing games!
We need to meet core gamers' needs, and satisfy the casual audience, says Game Insight CEO
Alisa Chumachenko on going broad and deep in 2014
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Hendrik Lesser, Remote Control Productions
Microsoft and Sony have to commit themselves to indies
KongZhong partners with Soha to launch games in Vietnam
Hero and Goddess the first release
Monetizer: Dark District
Rethinking the Clash of Clones
We'll invest a lot of money and energy to make western games successful in China, say Rekoo
Supersolid deal the first of many
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Gareth Edmondson, Thumbstar
The opportunity in the east is huge
Rekoo partners up with Supersolid to bring Adventure Town to Chinese market
City-building RPG heading east
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Ben Liu
Pocket Gems' CEO on identity through Street Fighter II
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Neil McFarland, ustwo
The paid game sector will strengthen in 2014
PopCap Shanghai to lead Chinese culturalisation of key EA Mobile IP
FIFA, Need for Speed and Battlefield on the cards
The Charticle: Thanks to support for 11 languages, Gamevil's Monster Warlord is now generating $1.9 million a month
Ruling the roost on Google Play
Chart of the Week: Samsung owned the Christmas Android tablet market in the US
According to Animoca's two million new users
Chinese in-app search platform Wandoujia raises $120 million
SoftBank leads the Series B investment round
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Wandrille Pruvot, Art Of Click
Watch out for the rise of Indonesia, Brazil and Turkey
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Heroes of Dragon Age tries my patience and wallet
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Irving Ho, XMG Studio
Strive for LTV greater than CPI
Chinese mobile publisher MorningTec raises $8.3 million
Haitong invests in tech/operations outfit
Ukraine dev Nika Entertainment looks for investment to become global force
Already top 10 in Russia but wants more
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Robby Yung, Animoca
Female gamers are a key opportunity for us
KongZhong claims successful launch of mobile MMORPG Kooky Three Kingdoms
Already the top RPG on Chinese App Store
2013 In Review: Yetizen's Sana Choudary
It's time to give something back to the industry
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Nikola Cavic, Nordeus
The new global platforms change everything in 2014
IGG to launch strategy title Castle Clash on WeChat
Tencent platform is growing up
Monetizer Special: 8 games with very weird IAP economies
Some clever and some stupid decisions revealed
Chinese mobile games market hots up as Alibaba takes on Tencent
$100 billion company makes move on $120 billion rival
Monetizer Special: Categorising F2P games via their average IAP price
It's time for a new metric
Sponsored feature: It's time to translate market data into informed decisions says Distimo
The power of numbers
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Perry Tam, Storm8
Looking to make the most of a $10 billion market
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Nicolas Godement-Berline, gumi Europe
We're seeing amazing growth in Korea, Taiwan and Thailand
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Markus and Christopher Kassulke
The HandyGames brothers on becoming a media house
Indonesia's now a social mobile gaming battlefield as WeChat joins Kakao and LINE
Nation of 250 million is a prize worth fighting over
Monetizer Special: IAP economic trends during 2013
Consolidation around de facto standards
The Charticle: The launch of Angry Birds Go!
The early reaction to Rovio first F2P release
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Xavier Louis, Brainbow
We need more category-defining games
Chart of the Week: Tracking the rise of Xiaomi
Chinese Android OEM gaining ground
Reading List: The Effective Executive
Listen to Peter Drucker's advice to get organised in 2014
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Epic Empire stalls, Dark District shines and Adventure Town grows
This guy will play anything that's free
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Franco Breciano, ZupCat
Do you know what makes your game stand out?
The Charticle: QuizUp - the least successful most successful iPhone game ever
Ruling downloads, nowhere in top grossing
Monetizer: CSR Classics
Tuning the success of CSR Racing