Dancing to a different beat: The making of Pulse: Volume One
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Jon Jordan
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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
Gamevil hits accumulative total of 50 million mobile game downloads
Vast majority paid, majority Java
Despite current lack of revenues, Chinese ISP Tencent is 'investing significantly' in mobile platforms
Highly popular, hopes business models will emerge
With Q4 growth accelerating, GREE posts FY11 sales of $794 million, up 82%
Net income up 59% to $225 million
Apple gains preliminary injunction against Samsung; stops European Galaxy Tab 10.1 launch
German court plays it by the book
Capcom is the fastest growing mobile company, but DeNA remains the most impressive
Good news too for EA, Gameloft, Gamevil and Glu
FGOL's Ian Harper on how the Future Games Network will propel indie games to success
Launching this week with Say What?!
Glu's De Masi on why he's longterm positive on Amazon and more bullish on Nokia than RIM
Time will come
Is Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick warming to social, mobile games?
He's got a itch. Could it be scratched?
Khronos looks for industry participation in WebCL and StreamInput working groups
Help browser parallel computing and sensor push
Havok builds out middleware offering with the acquisition of Trinigy
Vision Engine will be rebranded as Havok
Glu CEO De Masi on building for future profitability fueled by 20 internal dev teams
Android, IAP and resource management games the focus
PG.biz week that was: Storm8 might be worth $1b, Mork's off to Google, Amazon's in the doghouse, while Glu buys 2 studios and axes key execs
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Self styled 'app guy' Patrick Mork leaves GetJar to join Google as marketing director for mobile apps
Mad Mork's on a mission
Sibblingz raises $1 million to extend Spaceport game engine to Facebook's Project Spartan
Platform for the next Zynga of mobile gaming
Survey suggests average spend on virtual items for casual, social games is declining
Bursting bubble?
Mobile Streams widens games and app distribution with Appitalism Wings program
Plug into partners including Qualcomm and Huawei
With #1 and #2 games on GREE, Konami booked $99 million of social mobile revenue in Q1 FY12
Up a massive 225 percent year-on-year
Ngmoco signs up AT&T to make Mobage gaming app available for its Android phones
Via Android Market later in 2011
OpenFeint launches new social features on Android before iOS
Supports 700 games on platform, 24% of top 100
Flurry launches Analytics 3.0, adding audience segmentation features
Will estimate user demographics too
Breaking: Glu Mobile restructures, top execs laid off
CCO Mori and marketing chief Breslin out
Google prepares for multi-billion dollar patent arms race with Apple, Oracle, Microsoft
Information is power
Capcom Mobile plans to release at least 18 games before March 2012
Revving up the pipeline
Thanks to Smurfs' Village, Capcom Mobile sees net sales up 80% to $15 million
Division accounted for 58% of company operating income
In July, Tapjoy delivered 20 million conversions for developers, 10 million for key brand advertisers
Mobile ad network is maturity fast
Malaysian content aggregator mobile9 adds social layer for its 6 million users
Mobile9.com portal is live and viral
AppMobi's cross-platform HTML5 XDK dev tool now free on Chrome Web Store
Includes emulation and debugging
Ex-Vodafone and EA exec Tim Harrison takes new role at Sony Ericsson
Charged with driving Xperia Play strategy forward
Klaas Kersting on leaving Gameforge to launch real world mobile gaming outfit flaregames
Launching first product on iOS in late 2011
CEO Suglobov on G5's goal to become #1 mobile publisher of hidden object and time management games
New investment, more ambition
Rumours suggest Storm8's first funding round will value it at $1 billion
A mobile Zynga is born
With 16.5 million MAUs, Glu sees IAP volumes up 32% with average transaction worth $4.07
Blammo and Griptonite deals valued at up to $33 million
All the world's a stage: The making of Shadow Cities
The layer beneath
Finally, is this the turning point? Glu Mobile sees Q2 2011 revenues rise 11% to $17.7 million
Smartphone freemium revenue was $7.7 million
Glu Mobile thinks big: doubles internal development talent acquiring Griptonite and Blammo
Spends money to boost release schedule
Namco Bandai sees Japanese mobile game subscribers drop 8% to 2.1 million during Q1 2012
Overall company sales up 8% to $1.1 billion
InMobi buys HTML5 ad platform Sprout to push rich media opportunities
Remains independent, working with competing networks
Indie-focused 360iDev conference confirms its schedule
Kicks off September 11 in Denver, CO
Exit Games signs Chinese distribution deal with The9 for Photon mobile networking engine
Pushing online
Unity speeds its 3D Flash implementation, hiring expert Ralph Hauwert
Tech should be available in beta in late 2011
With a third of sales coming from smartphones and tablets, Gameloft sees H1 2011 sales up 15% to $110 million
Rest of world now is 39% of business
Despite investing more than $120m in expansion, DeNA sees FY11 Q1 net income up 45% to $123m
Reckons its $12.06 p/m users are worth 18x Zynga's
Leviathan's Van Luchene on why building the biggest library of social gaming patents doesn't mean it will trigger a legal apocalypse
Patent system encourages innovation not lawsuits
Google, Unity, Glu, Rovio and PopCap throw their weight behind new, indie-focused Pax Dev event
Precedes Seattle-based Pax Prime on 24-25 August
Sega Sammy looks to freemium growth with 1.3 million downloads of Kingdom Conquest
Company had troubled Q1 FY12 however
Life after Mr Goodliving: How Grand Cru is looking to revolutionise social mobile gaming
Inspired by Habbo Hotel, LittleBig Planet and Minecraft
Small computer people, big iOS success: The making of Tiny Tower
From Pocket Frogs to BitBook
Android and Java game distributor Flexion adding over 4 million customers a month
Enabling one free trial every second
ARM see half year 2011 revenues up 28% to $376 million
Generated $175 million in cash