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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
Opinion: EA Mobile pulls the wool over iPad owners' eyes with 'sale' that's more expensive than usual
Assumes we have memory of a goldfish
Magmic's freemium BlackBerry game Texas Hold'em King LIVE hits one million unique players
Aces are high
Samsung sues Apple in Holland over 3G patents; wants all devices banned
Judge will report over FRAND terms on Monday
HTML5 needs an Angry Birds-style hit to validate the platform reckons FunMobility's Daniel Pfeiffer
Stamp a mark
Submissions for Smart Content 2011 Awards close 29 September
Part of the Smart Content show running 2-3 November
YoYo Games' Sandy Duncan on why HTML5 will resurrect Flash games portals and herald the end of Nintendo's hardware business
Fundamentally important for the future of games
Sibblingz's chief architect Ben Savage on how HTML5 distribution will provide competition to 'lame app stores'
New paths to discovery
MocoSpace's CEO Justin Siegel argues that HTML5 has the potential to topple Apple's mobile gaming crown
Changes the market dynamics
Itsmy Games' CEO Antonio Vince Staybl on how HTML5 will shift casual games to mobile
And how Project Spartan will add social functionality
Spil Games' CEO Peter Driessen on why HTML5 will eliminate barriers and grow the mobile gaming market
Will be open for all
Tag Games looks to expand headcount as it gears up for first freemium release Funpark Friends
Dundee outfit on the up with new office
4% of apps are generating 72% of all iPhone App Store revenue says Distimo
That's the proportion using IAP
InMobi's Gregory Kennedy explains its #1 iOS campaign for Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Know your audience
Nvidia uncloaks power efficient fifth Companion chip within Kal-El's quad-core CPU architecture
Claims Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing better than rival approaches
Distimo CEO Vincent Hoogsteder on how its analytics provide developers with the competitive edge
The app store intelligence that matters
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[UPDATE] Amazon Appstore for Android finally goes live globally
UK, Europe, Australia and India all online
Rovio thirdparty publishing rumours resurface with the suggestion it's taking a longterm approach
Brand building
The PG.biz Hot Five: Microsoft and Adobe support HTML5, ARM's Mali-400 is the fastest, and Backflip nears 150m downloads
Last week's top five stories
Unity's Francis says Microsoft's decision to drop plug-in support for IE 10 plays into its native app focus
Will consider WebGL support though
Adult Swim prepares for App Store invasion with five games before December
Signs long-term dev deal with PikPok
Men out play and out spend women when it comes to mobile freemium gaming says Flurry
Average male transaction is $15.60 compared to $11.90 for women
Infinite Dreams looks to the power of social interaction to drop Jelly Defense's launch price from $9.99 to 99c
Can you Google+ it?
RIM sees FY12 Q2 sales slide 10% to $4.2 billion, with income down 53% to $329 million
Shipped 10.6 million phones, 200,000 PlayBook tablets
As it launches freemium title DragonVale, Backflip approaches 150 million smartphone installs
Breathing fire
Chop Chop developer Gamerizon raises $5 million to expand series to new formats
Expects to hire 100 staff over 24 months
InMobi CEO Naveen Tewari on how Softbank's $200 million investment will enable it to get aggressive and go deep
Looking at China, Korea and more technology acquisitions
Itsmy repackages browser games for HTML5 to meet its goal of becoming the biggest casual mobile browser gaming company
Best of both worlds
SponsorPay opens a Japanese office to build on existing business
Working closely with LinkShare
Real-world rewards network Kiip partners up with Verizon
Floodgates open
Location-based mobile gaming start up Red Robot Labs raises $8.5 million
Ex-Playdom outfit cashing up
Cave underlines the phone nature of PS Vita: announces it's bringing Mobage hit Build a Castle to the console
Including location-based check-in features
Topdown view: Rodeo Games on the making of Hunters: Episode One
Pick your targets, level up
Kwalee's David Darling on the new challenge of making games and apps for iOS
Bringing Codemasters' experience to the mobile market
Google to optimise future versions of Android to support Intel's Atom processors
ARM is not the only choice
Qualcomm points to Snapdragon's support for Microsoft's PCs, tablets and smartphones
Architecture works for Windows Phone and Windows 8
Jetpack Joyride does 350,000 iOS sales in launch week
Halfbrick cashing in quick
Should you be making weather apps? Report says, on average, they make four times more than games on Android
Less is more
Glu Mobile looks to casual freemium, announcing Boo Town and Toy Village
Plus racing and zombies for the boys
Get Set's Matt Coombe on why incentivised actions are worth more than IAP in Mega Jump
And why it's using Flurry and Kiip as Tapjoy replacements
With Rovio making at least $10 million a month from plushes and t-shirts, a survey finds 53% of users are playing free versions
Monetising with merch
After 230,000 downloads of its first advergame, online takeaway service Just-Eat returns for second helpings
Food Chain out on iOS, coming to Android
AnandTech benchmarks Mali-400 as the fastest smartphone GPU
Galaxy S II beats everything... except iPad
Codemasters' founder David Darling announces mobile app and game start up Kwalee
Looking to hire key people
The PG.biz Hot Five: Nvidia claims Android dominance, GameMaker for HTML5 coming, and Zynga-Glu deal (again)
Last week's top five stories
PG.biz week that was: Android downloads will beat iOS, PopCap adds IAP as Flurry and MocoSpace analyse usage, and GetJar goes gold
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Mobile educational developer Fingerprint raises $1.4 million from THQ, K2, Reed Elsevier and Suffolk Ventures
Boasts Leapfrog, PlayFirst, LucasArts and 2K talent
Leading Chinese ISP Tencent launches its own app store
Android focus but other OSes supported
Gamers sourced by incentivised downloads can be six times more valuable than organic traffic says W3i
Lemons are not the only fruit
Samsung announces bada Student Developer Challenge for 10 UK universities
Abertay, Imperial College, Oxford, Brunel all signed up