Nexon predicts at least $85 million in mobile sales next quarter
Gloops deal revving ups
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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
Becoming a publisher is part of our journey says Pocket Gems
Spreading the knowledge around
UK trade mission to Platform Doha game conference now signing up
Get 25% discount thanks to subsidy scheme
Opinion: EA needs to convince fans that Real Racing 3's F2P damage mechanic is more than a 'cut and shut' job
Can console-quality franchise survive IAP bumps?
Chart of the Week: Korea and Japan are the key Android games markets
Forget China... for now
Winter Nights 2013: China's app market could grow 10-fold, reckons i-Free
#wnconf But the 200 app stores need to consolidate
Winter Nights 2013: Buy better quality mobile game installs 40% cheaper via Facebook
#wnconf Power of new mobile ad units
Winter Nights 2013: We're looking to publish very casual games, reveals Rovio
#wnconf But still no formal announcement of plan
Winter Nights 2013: Big Fish's mobile F2P business grew 275% in 2012
#wnconf Three games generating $4 million per month
Winter Nights 2013: Russian dev-powered Chillingo drives revenues from carriers, Android
#wnconf Boom times
Winter Nights 2013: User acquisition trends; from pricing, to decline of the charts' organic power, and rise of Facebook
#wnconf Thoughts from the panel
Konami still looking to mobile to halt decline as game revenue slips 19% to $930 million
Nine months of strife
Games on the Line messaging service generate $18 million in FY12 Q4
It now has over 105 million users
Winter Nights 2013: Play your game as much as possible, says Supercell
#wnconf Advice from Clash of Clans
China spotlight: RedAtoms CEO David Liu on the need for bold steps
It's still in the infant stage
Mexico spotlight: Inode Entertainment's 200 million download success on Nokia Store
Plenty of life in the Java dog yet
40 million gamers strong, MoMinis rebrands as PlayScape
Platform outfit hungry for growth
Com2uS on energerising the Korean mobile games market with KakaoTalk social network
Viral distribution platform targets 66 million users
Chart of the Week: The hard value of cloud gaming services predicted
Fluffy around the edges?
Glu looks to fill its channels with new publishing initiative
Has also invested in casino start up Bee Cave
2012 sales up 32% to $87.5 million but still no sign of profits for Glu Mobile
The more things change....
Zynga struggles with declining user base as 2012 losses narrow to $209 million
Growing pains become shrinking pains
Russian F2P publisher Game Insight raises $25 million
Means more titles, faster global expansion
Boom times for Com2uS with 2012 profits up 393% to $19 million
Sales up 112% to $72 million
What HeroCraft's learned from 10 years of mobile game development
Moving from hard knocks to a new strategy
CEO Fred Wester on why hardcore PC outfit Paradox is coming to tablets
Expects mobile to be 10% of sales by 2014
GREE-ification complete: Last OpenFeint exec Eros Resmini leaves for mysterious meta start up role
Hooks back up with Peter Relan
Storm8 CEO Perry Tam on how the social mobile outfit is playing the long game
3 years on, its first game remains top grossing
Chart of the Week: Predicted sizes of the Chinese mobile game market
How does it grow?
The Simpsons boosts EA Mobile up 23% to Q3 2013 sales of $86 million
Comic tie-in grosses $23 million in quarter
Opinion: Not too little, but uncertainty remains over whether BlackBerry 10 is too late
Relying on strong carrier support to build base
Google exec Charles Yim joins monetisation outfit PlayHaven as COO
Taking it to the next level
Gameloft sees 2012 sales up 27% to $275 million
Beats out its own guidance
App Store user costs and competitiveness up in December, but not compared to 2011
Fiksu: More sophisticated strategies in play
Kabam reveals 2012 sales of $180 million, 80% from mobile games
Midcore publisher raising the bar
With GungHo now worth more than Zynga, is GREE or DeNA about to buy big again?
Puzzle & Dragons publisher on the up
Chart of the Week: Which F2P games demonstrate the most dense monetisation?
Kwalee's FM does some rank difference analysis
Game wrapper tech Flexion's audience breaks 250 million mark
Generated $6 million in Q4
MGF 2013: The Korean mobile market is booming thanks to Kakao, says Gamevil
#mgf2013 Offers 'early Facebook' virality
Exclusive: Rovio turns publisher as studio opens doors to third parties
Spanish studio 5 Ants' Tiny Thief due in May
MGF 2013: How to sell your company and what it's worth
#mgf2013 Agnitio Capital's Shum Singh reveals all
MGF 2013: Can mobile games attract advertising from the big brands?
#mgf2013 A panel discusses...
The beaming faces from the PocketGamer.biz MGF 2013 afterparty
#mgf2013 The way to start another industry year
Hardcore Russian PC strategy outfit Nival on why it's going mobile and how it's going to win
Going cross-platform with depth
MGF 2013: You don't need top 20 chart ranking to be successful
#mgf2013 But you need to work towards it
MGF 2013: For longterm success look to Android, reckons cross-platform panel
#mgf2013 Open is better
MGF 2013: Your game is a shop, says NaturalMotion's Robertston. That's why our cars are shiny
#mgf2013 Game engagement panel
MGF 2013: Mobile game market in EU5 is up to 72 million MAUs, 18 million DAUs
#mgf2013 Finding from comScore's recent report
Too many mobile games are just monetisation systems, reckons new entrant S2
Heroes of Newerth studio will do things differently
Unconsole pioneer Mike Yuen on the challenges facing Ouya, Green Throttle, GameStick and Nvidia's Project Shield
Learning from Zeebo's failure