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Articles by Jon Jordan
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Publishing play paying off: CMGE sees FY13 Q3 sales up 125% to $16 million
Joyful poker series making $1.5 million a month
Ninja strike: GREE cancels 27 games at the cost of $53 million
Sets up quick prototyping program instead
Despite becoming a majority F2P outfit, G5 sees FY13 revenue down 9% to $3.4 million
Write-down and high costs produce $760,000 loss
Going core: Faceroll Games on bringing 3D graphics and heroes to the mobile strategy genre
The best bits from League of Legions and Clash of Clans
NetEase sees FY13 Q3 sales up 23% to $410 million
Fantasy Westward Journey II leads the way
Canadian-Chinese dev Pixelmatic looks to create "truly social" mobile games
First title coming out in Japan via 6waves
Tencent looks to QQ and WeChat as FY13 Q3 sales rise 34% to $2.5 billion
Leveraging the power of its networks
GREE sees FY14 Q1 sales down 3% to $360 million
Struggling to gear up native games production
Kingsoft sees FY13 Q3 revenue up 51% to $90 million
Now has 150 million mobile users
Opinion: Has the rise of games-as-a-service killed the successful indie?
Creativity and luck no longer enough
Strong games business lifts NG Mobile's FY13 Q3 sales 110% to $54 million
FL Mobile platform business on the up
IGG sees Q3 FY13 sales up 57% to $22.5 million as Castle Clash generates $7 million
New mobile strategy doing the business
The Charticle: Why the next Infinity Blade needs to go F2P
Paid barrier-to-entry is now limiting overall revenue
Hall of Fame: Tommy Palm
King's Games Guru in praise of the Jesus phone
Live Mobile!: Why developers should never remake their favourite games
Game Insights producer provides 7 steps for success
We're waiting for WhatsApp to open up for games, says Game Insight's Chumachenko
Will the west get its Kakao?
Moscow streaming: Check out the Live Mobile! 2013 conference here
Kicking off 12 November - all the action streamed
Chart of the Week: China's top OS and app distribution channels
Why Tencent, 360 and UCWeb matter more than iOS
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More than your typical chop shop
Opinion: One year on, how does Nexon's $470 million acquisition of gloops stack up?
Rethinking price and timing
Nexon posts $70 million in mobile sales for FY13 Q3
Gloops now working with DeNA
Financial News
Japan declines but DeNA sees H1 FY13 sales up 2% to $1 billion
But profits hit hard
Execution Labs opens doors for its second intake of wannabe start-ups
Also adds internal track for game-focused outfits
GDC Next party a roaring success
Thanks to Gamevil, Everyplay and Yandex
Plain Vanilla's plan to create a socially-powered world-class trivia gaming platform
It's time to QuizUp
LINE generated around $60 million from 39 games in FY13 Q3
Revenue up 48%
Chart of the Week: What percentage of kids know their parents' account details?
New research attempts to solve the question
Giant Interactive to bring ZT Online franchise to mobile
First fruits of new strategy due in early 2014
Qihoo 360 sees its share of Chinese search market grow to 21%
Opening new channels of discovery
Why Red Robot Labs released its standalone community app First for Gamers
Harnessing the power of expert recommendation
PlayPhone hooks up with SingTel to fulfill its vision to become world's third app store
White label social network now available to 800 million
Cocos2d-x gets support for Windows and Windows Phone
Now even more cross-platform
Hall of Fame: Tim FitzRandolph
Where's My Water? creator looks for social connections
Short Cuts: Game Sparks on the rise of backend-as-a-service
Putting intelligence into the cloud
Glu is the foreign company that's big in China, says CEO
It already ranks #2 behind the US
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[Updated] Gameloft beats out EA Mobile's quarter with Q3 sales of $83.5 million
Predicts full year revenue will be around $320 million
The Charticle: The rise and rise of Ruzzle
How MAG Interactive lets players do the work
Glu CEO de Masi on finding the light at the end of the tunnel by staring down the barrel of a gun
Predicts this will be the company's best quarter ever
The competition has stolen our blueprint but they can't steal our passion, says Kixeye CEO
Facebook core company heads to mobile all-guns-blazing
Monetizer special: Pocket Trains vs Gunner Z
Two very different approaches to monetisation
Capcom blames 'fierce competitive environment' for mobile decline
Lack of major titles also an issue
Beta believe it: Why Fishlabs invited 30,000 gamers to test Galaxy on Fire - Alliances
How to launch a polished product
Glu Mobile sees Q3 FY13 sales down 17% to $21.7 million
But sentiment boosted by Deer Hunter 2014's success
20 million downloads for BBM on iOS and Android in first week
Freed messaging service now 80 million-strong
Boyaa Interactive set for $130 million IPO in Hong Kong
Shares to be traded from Thursday
Opinion: EA should have bought NaturalMotion or Machine Zone, not PopCap
Marketing machine is working, but monetisation isn't
EA Mobile stutters with Q2 FY14 sales down 34% to $75 million
Bad quarter for Redwood City giant
Hall of Fame: David and Ian Marsh
The NimbleBit brothers on boutique success