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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
Re-styled, renamed, re-released: Rail Maze finds success with 5 million downloads in a month
What was Doodle Train
Acer and ViewSonic sign patent agreements with Microsoft for Android smartphones and tablets
Also covers Chrome hardware
Samsung rumoured to reveal first Windows 8 tablet next week
Flight to safety?
Exent brings its GameTanium Android gaming service to Vestel's Smart Box set top boxes
All-you-can-eat in the living room
25 to 34 year olds account for 49% of all freemium IAP reckons Flurry
Generation Y plays, but Generation X pays
Unstructured data suggests the average number of downloads per app on Ovi Store is 2.5 times more than an app on App Store
Probably because there's 90 percent fewer apps available
PopCap adds IAP to iPhone version of Plants vs. Zombies
Nine mini-games for $2.97
GetJar launches GetJar Gold, a free channel for premium Android content, with Halfbrick's Age of Zombies
Expects to 'give away' millions of dollars worth of apps
Marmalade SDK goes large with native support for LG Smart TV
Sit back and relax
Distimo adds benchmarking analysis tools to its free app store Monitor service
Global reach across eight app stores
Appitalism reinforces marketing and carrier partnership activity with three new hires
Connecting the dots
Zynga With Friends, Limbic, ngmoco, Papaya and Gamevil announced as part of GDC Online smartphone and tablet summit
Two day track in Austin filling up
NTI Birmingham announces new February date for its Game Camp: Nano course
Make a mobile game in a month
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang boasts Tegra 2 dominance across Android
It's Nvidia and Qualcomm, mainly Nvidia
Tapjoy underlines growing significance of mobile games, hires ex-PlayStation SVP Peter Dille
Taking chief marketing officer role
YoYo Games' Sandy Duncan on why GameMaker for HTML5 is right place, right time for all developers
This ain't your son's GameMaker
Developers need to consider mobile advertising from the start argues Millennial Media's Matt Gillis
Go cross-platform, tablet, and think about holidays
Madvertise's Jana Sievers on the mobile ad network's 5 million developer fund and its KatAPPult cross promotion service
Also claims 10x better than average eCPMs
Baidu partners with Dell for smartphone and tablets running its new Yi OS
Available in late 2011
Antix's mobile and web Game Player is now available for MStar's connected TV platform
It's in the box
The PG.biz Hot Five: Gameloft and EA beef up on Android, should Zynga buy Glu, and Windows Phone Marketplace hits 30,000 apps
Last week's top five stories
Seeking Alpha thinks Zynga should buy Glu Mobile
Although $600 million price tag looks too high
Amazon to challenge Apple's supremacy with aggressively priced $250 7-inch Android tablet
Due out November
After the Tapjoy ban, Get Set Games seeks alternatives; integrates Flurry App Circle and Kiip into iPhone hit Mega Jump
Filling the gap
EA, Gameloft, Namco Bandai and Big Fish drop App Store prices for US Labor Day
Over 150 titles down to as little as 99c
PlayHaven launches live HTML5 marketing, engagement and monetisation platform for iOS games
Glu, Halfbrick and Joybits already signed up
Samsung highlights bada's streamlined features in comparison with Android's complexity
Encouraging developers to switch?
Fishlabs prepares for Galaxy on Fire's freemium expansion with key online and community hires
Countdown underway
Bulkypix's Vincent Dondaine on why its dev experience and 15% split make it the ideal mobile publisher
Sees both sides of the situation
Appbackr looks to link developers and funders in a cashflow positive and profitable cycle
Help devs, get up to 54% return if they're successful
Euro's strength hits Gameloft as it posts flat H1 2011 profits of 5.3 million euros
Otherwise, sales up 15 percent year-on-year
GREE signs deal with Unity to freely distribute Unity for GREE tech in Japan
Next step in the relationship
Opinion: Flurry makes a confusing comparison between actual US online ad spend and potential US mobile app inventory
Fillrate is the missing piece of the puzzle
Microsoft brings European PEGI age ratings to Windows Phone games
Now integrated into its submission process
MobileBits pushes flexibility and control with Delta Engine, its open source .NET/C# tech for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
Suggests Unity is for script kiddies
Another Nokia VP leaves; starts Nokia co-funded games, apps and future tech investment fund Vision+
Hope to broaden Windows Phone ecosystem
'We're trying to raise Android gaming. I think we're succeeding,' says Sony Ericsson's Harrison
Committed to the long haul
SponsorPay launches new mobile cost-per-action campaigns for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
Hires Tehyon Kim from Tapjoy to lead developer push
Fiksu launches App Store indices: reckons acquisition cost of a loyal iOS user is $1.20
Trend spotting
HTML5 Dev Con announced: 27 September in San Francisco
Execs from Sibblingz, Google and Microsoft onboard
EA builds up its free Android games catalog with Tetris release
Get your Marathon mode on
The PG.biz Hot Five: Apple stops UDIDs, Papaya needles DeNA, Gameloft tries subscription, while mills raises the anti-freemium flag
Last week's top five stories
Gameloft launches 99p UK subscription deal for one Android game every week
Recurring revenues
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the legacy of Steve Jobs and Apple's future prospects
Use the Force, Tim
The only sensible option for LG is to sell its mobile division says analyst Horace Dediu
Its performance is destroying the entire company
App downloads accelerate for Nokia with Ovi Store's daily total now 9 million
Was 7 million daily a month ago
10tons' Sparkle wins $250,000 and $1.9 million of marketing support as the gaming grand prize winner of Nokia's Calling All Innovators
Blasting over Ovi Store
OpenFeint to streamline sign-in process to provide UDID replacement service on iOS
Will incentivise developers with install guarantees
Firemint's SPY Mouse is its first game to employ in-app purchases
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