Yandex continues its Android assault with global launch of Yandex.Shell homescreen
Customisation UI acting as services Trojan Horse?
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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
Cost base rebalancing: Zynga slashes 520 staff or 18% of its workforce as it looks to mobile
Hopes to save over $70 million annually
With Backyard Monsters now soft-launched, KIXEYE prepares to go big on mobile
War Commander, VEGA Conflict, TOME inbound
Spanish-speaking social gaming specialist Akamon raises $3.7 million
Looking to expand internationally and to mobile
Hot Five: HandyGames is 50 million-strong, Glu goes gambling again, the size of whales, and Running with Friends gets paid
Last week's top five stories
AppLift closes $13 million series A round with Prime Ventures
Throwing rocket fuel on the fire
Power of the voice: Appington's VoiceOver tech increases FishFarm's ARPU 50%
A word in your ear
Yandex, Opera, SlideME and CodeNgo combine to fix Android app distribution and billing
Founders of the One Platform Foundation
Forking move: How LINE, KakaoTalk and GREE's social apps also rule on Google Play
It's not just about the games
Announcing core title Champs Battlegrounds, Quark's Shawn Foust says midcore is a fallacy
You're either core, or you're not
Immersion shakes things up, adds SDK support via Unity, Marmalade and GameMaker
Give your Android games more feeling
Taptica launches 'multi-arm bandit' smarts to optimise your user acquisition
Learning from the gambler's dilemma
Darya Trushkina on why interactive comic app NARR8 doesn't need big licences... yet
Bootstrapping its growth with original IP
Glu to launch cash prize competitions in US starting with Deer Hunter on Android
Integrating the Skillz platform
Rising Robot: Mobage generated 48% of its $10.7 million US April revenue via Google Play
Distimo points to growing app store parity
DeNA rolls out casual games to its Comm messaging service
Fighting back against LINE and Kakao
What's my name? Amazon steps up to battle Facebook and Google with new open ID scheme
Login with Amazon available for iOS, Android, web
The Charticle: After a slow start, Zynga accelerates with paid versions of Running with Friends
Great game, struggling with monetisation
Sony looks to revitalise PS Vita with Remote Play mandated for PS4 games
Your own little living room OnLive
50 million downloads-strong: HandyGames on taming and monetising Google Play
Pushing a high quality portfolio
Will PS4 and Xbox One embrace the mobile explosion or will unconsoles eat the nextgen lunch?
Mavens through the LookingSmartGlass
India spotlight: CreatioSoft on its Android-powered rise
Everyone loves pandas
Chart of the Week: How 0.0077% of players generate 33% of F2P game revenue
The stark numbers behind the business
Square Enix's future profits based on thinking local, going open, plus smartphone and tablet success
MD Matsuda highlights three strategic shifts
Building on the '11 million manager' success of Top Eleven, Nordeus looks to new games, including social sports betting
All based on unified gaming experiences
GameDuell hires new HR head to lead its 120-strong expansion
Rüdiger von Hennig joins from Bigpoint
Short Cuts: With Unity and gamepad support, BlackBerry is now on its game
R&D lead Sean Paul Taylor explains
Short Cuts: Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman on disrupting the console business
Not scared of PlayStation 4 or Xbox One
11 million managers-strong Top Eleven dev Nordeus looks to office expansion in Ireland and Macedonia
Transfer to a winning team
The short cycle of mobile games is what's driving opportunities, says Unity's Helgason
Embrace change, he tells Nordic Game 2013
European game devs don't think big enough, says Supercell shareholder LVP
Paul Heydon tells Nordic Game to think bigger
Ouya is beautiful and cheap, but who cares? It's about the games
CEO Julie Uhrman speaks at Nordic Game 2013
Chart of the Week: Gamers unaware of mobile gaming networks like Mobage, Scoreloop and GREE
But Game Center and OpenFeint noted
Stay in touch with what you love says Double Fine's Tim Schafer
Kickstarting Nordic Game 2013
Boomtown: Mobile games market value predicted to rise 35% to $12.3 billion in 2013
Newzoo reveals results of new data model
Shanda sees Q1 2013 mobile game revenue rise to $17 million
Accounts for 10 percent of total revenue
KongZhong sees Q1 FY13 mobile game sales slide 33% to $3.7 million
Still riding its feature to smart phone transition
How strong process and Unity helped Rovio make Bad Piggies in five months
Including holidays
Everyone Unites for PG's Malmo Mobile Mixer
Thanks to Papaya, King and Unity
16 years young: How PikPok grew into a mobile publishing pocket battleship
Targeting opportunities everywhere
Burstly integrates, now offering SkyRocket, TestFlight and FlightPath for all devs
Test, monetise and analyse within one suite
Speeding to success: Business accelerator YetiZen reveals its latest round of hot start-ups
Soaking up the San Francisco scene
On the back of strong mobile usage and web game sales, Qihoo 360 sees Q1 2013 revenue up 59% to $110 million
Building a strong distribution platform
How jumping from PC to mobile triggered 'crucial changes' at Belarusian developer Awem
A loyal community is the key to success
Sponsored feature: AppLift's 5 steps for free-to-play mobile gaming success
It's a numbers game so count them well
OpenFeint and Scoreloop execs praise Google's cross-platform approach
But devs need their user data says OpenKit's Relan
Gameloft Q1 2013 sales up 21% to $42.3 million
F2P sales now 40% of total
International sales up 41% as Gamevil sees FY13 Q1 revenues rise to $15.5 million
Expects to do even better in Q2
Google details its cross-platform achievements, leaderboards and cloud save for Android and iOS
Real-time multiplayer is Android-only
Opinion: The significance of Google announcing cross-platform gaming services for iOS
Mr Cook. Tear down your wall