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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
Facebook goes with the flow, relaxes Credits hardball, adds subscription options
Developers more important than platform
Barnes & Noble's Nook business sees FY12 sales up 34% to $933 million
But still loss making
With sales growing 10-fold, mobile video ad outfit AdColony poaches iAd's Mike Owen as CRO
Adds two tech execs plus opens SF and NY offices
WWDC 2012: Swipe is launched so we have a party
Bringing the best of web to iPad
Pocket Gamer's WWDC 2012 party on the Rock(s)
Show us your arrest face
Opinion: iPhone, iPad and iTV are now too important for Apple to waste at WWDC
iOS 6 changes will likely help big corporates
WWDC 2012: Apple has hosted 1.5 trillion push notifications plus 10 billion tweets from iOS 5
Highlighting social activities
E3 2012: Gameloft's Baudouin Corman on why working with GREE doesn't reduce the importance of Gameloft Live
The VIP lounge is different to the corridor
The PocketGamer.biz Hot Five: The future for RIM debated, while Microsoft looks through SmartGlass
Last week's top five stories
AdTruth pre-empts WWDC keynote claiming Apple will roll out a direct UDID replacement
Suggests OpenUDID, ODIN and cookies are dead ends
Here's the close up from Pocket Gamer's E3 party
You're all stars
GREE's Ethan Fassett on winning the platform battle with Zynga, Facebook, EA and the rest
It's about money but more
Disney Mobile's Bart Decrem on passion, characters, and building a mobile game for a billion players
Aiming high and cleaning up
Oskari Hakkinen on bringing Remedys core DNA to mobiles and tablets gaming
Expects to have 20-strong team in place by end of 2012
E3 2012: Take-Two targets casual mobile gamers with four titles announced by 2K Play
From US elections to cats and farms
Facebook integration highly likely for iOS 6
Ping spat long forgotten
The PG.biz Hot Five: Unity's rise, Zygna and Unreal, mobile at E3, and Nokia's outlook
Last week's top five stories
Remedy confirms it's staffing up for high quality narrative games on mobile and tablet
Fired by the 10 million download success of Death Rally
Debate: RIM is still near the rocks, but it's now heading in the right direction
BlackBerry 10 is the lighthouse
Consolidation for game production services as Flashman Studios buys Beefy Media
From concept into the marketplace
Hudson and TikGames veterans form up for mobile developer Slimstown Studios
Also funded to publish external content
We're aggressively investing in new solutions to deal with UDID transition says Fiksu's Craig Palli
SDK version 2.0 now available
MoMinis' Eyal Rabinovich on doubling the length of Ninja Chicken's user sessions
Adding extra Ooga Booga
Next iPhone rumoured to have 4-inch Retina screen, unibody design, running variant of A5 chip
Evolution not revolution
Rumours suggest Zynga will announce Unreal-powered 'mid-core' games
Not at E3 though
Fiksu eases transition to UDID-free ecosystem with support for multiple tracking technologies in new SDK
From OpenUDID to fingerprinting and cookies
Co-production deals are the best way for small indies to get free-to-play success argues Kiloo's Simon Moeller
As demonstrated by Subway Surfers
Binary Hammer's Bob Koon on relying on the generosity of time-pressed strangers
New app twists IAP motivation
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins predicts Q1 loss but points to cost savings and international subscriber growth
Inventory costs ballooning too
Boldai wins 10,000 euros from Nordic Game Fund for Blocksworld, its innovative digital Lego
Minecraft for the kids
Giancarlo Mori on how Atari's walking the fine line between nostalgia and innovation
New IP required for relevance
The PG.biz Hot Five: GREE to rock E3, the rise of GetJar, and the rising rise of 3DS
Last week's top five stories
Nordic Game 2012: Wooga on the long haul process of making Diamond Dash a success on iOS
#nordicgame Tweaking sociability and currency
Nordic Game 2012: Emerging Tequila Planet platform boasts 10 million users and 7% payment conversation rate
#nordicgame Majority on Java
Nordic Game 2012: Finance panel says San Francisco costs provide opportunity for European devs
#nordicgame Saturated market of ideas
James Lamberti on replacing UDIDs with AdTruth's probabilistic universal ID technology
Solve one problem, move onto the next
YoYo Games' Sandy Duncan on why GameMaker: Studio is the best for 2D game creation
Simple, productive, cost effective
HandyGames already developing its first title using GameMaker: Studio
Quick to take advantage of new tool
YoYo Games looks to disrupt Unity with $596 GameMaker: Studio launch for PC, Mac, HTML5, iOS and Android
Make game, release game
AdTruth led group finds consensus over UDID and MAC address replacement
Path for universal mobile ID being blazed
GREE looks to rock E3 with big South Hall stand and opening night party
Here comes mobile
Chair adds retweeting and liking to Infinity Blade II's ClashMob social gameplay
Kill bosses with the power of spam
Geo-localised gaming meet-up Playground Thursday launches at Nordic Game
Attendees to fend off virtual zombies and monsters
The PG.biz Hot Five: How BlackBerry might rebound, while PS Vita starts to dive
Last week's top five stories
Catchoom raises 600,000 euros to further develop its visual recognition technology
Already in use in Layar and Junaio
BlackBerry's already an avid platform for games, says Magmic's Troy Johnson
And BlackBerry 10 will make it better
As Facebook floats, GREE and DeNA still down more than 20% following complete gacha ban
Regulatory fight back
CocoaChina highlights WWDC ticketing woes via WWDCWaitList
Unlocking market liquidity
Opinion: Why Facebook's IPO is great news for the mobile games industry
$16 billion of new investment cash available today