Zombie Farm does 11 million downloads and claims double industry average retention rate
60 million hours of undead farming todate
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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
Spacetime Studios says Android gamers are three times as active and 50% more lucrative than iOS
Pocket Legends generating $6,000 daily from IAP
Ten killer trends from GDC 2011
#gdc11 No filler trends
GDC 2011: High value IAP in freemium iOS games is driving substantial App Store refunds
#gdc11 Hasty actions demand hasty refunds
GDC 2011: Microsoft under strong pressure to release native SDK for Windows Phone 7
#gdc11 Rumours say it's coming to Unity soon
GDC 2011: BlackBerry App World is a compelling opportunity for developers says RIM's John Thomas
#gdc11 Now doing two million downloads per day
GDC 2011: BlackBerry working to get middleware game engine support for PlayBook
#gdc11 Unity, Unreal Engine 3 and Shiva3D expected
Khronos Group announces WebGL 1.0 specification for 3D accelerated browser content
Bit step forward for gaming
GDC 2011: Sarah Thomson on how going freemium has changed IUGO's dynamic
#gdc11 Riding the wave of social mobile gaming
GDC 2011: Chair's Donald Mustard on the 100 day limitation that made Infinity Blade great
#gdc11 Be focused. Be unique
GDC 2011: How Zynga with Friends' Let's Try It approach fuels its ideas, mistakes and success
#gdc11 Work smart. Play hard.
Glu Mobile rolls out gPartners publishing initiative
Using its marketing muscle to fill up the content pipe
GDC 2011: Rovio's Vesterbacka on implementing Angry Birds' 100 million download strategy
#gdc11 Making a 21st Century Tetris
GDC 2011: How Google's Chris Pruett released a game which works on every Android device
#gdc11 Advocates are doing it for themselves
GDC 2011: Data, revenue, reach and learning from failure: ngmoco's live game playbook
#gdc11 Making the most out of your audience
GDC 2011: Rumour: Backflip Studios being bought?
#gdc11 Prized developer maybe snapped up
GDC 2011: The time is now for augmented reality mobile games says Ogmento's Terence Cohen
#gdc11 From gesture recognition to demon busting geo-location games
Fuse's Jon Walsh on combining Flurry, Appfigures, AdMob, Mobclix and Tapjoy into one cohesive real-time publishing tool
The data for success
MoMinis looks to solve mobile game fragmentation and distribution issues with integrated ecosystem
Play nice everywhere
Facebook bigs up the impact of HTML5 and WebGL for the future of browser gaming
Get your 3D graphics hardware accelerated
Havok brings its physics and animation tools to NGP
Already being used in launch titles
SponsorPay completes second A round with $5 million from Nokia Growth Partners
Will push onto mobile
Finnish location game specialist Grey Area raises $2.5 million to expand Shadow Cities globally
Top grossing Finnish titles to rule the world
Ex-Resolution CEO picks up Moto Racing IP for new outfit Zordix
Start as you left off
Rumour: Rovio to pick up Mr Goodliving
Angry Birds studio looking for fast expansion
Global View
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2011
The movers & shakers of the past 12 months
Five key trends we condensed from Mobile World Congress 2011
Hardware meets soft power
App Store name clashes continue as My Kingdom forced to rename as Merchant Kingdom
Possessive over possessive pronoun
MWC 2011: In-app purchases coming to Android soon
Microsoft also talking about WP7 virtual good platform
MWC 2011: ARM's Mali 400 GPU ships in Galaxy S II
Quad core power
Apple calls in Capcom over Smurfs' Village IAP controversy
Might reduce iTunes log in time period to pacify disquiet
MWC 2011: Nvidia to announce next generation Tegra 3 hardware tomorrow
Going quad, 3D and Blu-ray
Get Mr Goodliving staff while they're hot
With the studio's permission
AT&T to pre-load OpenFeint Game Channel app on its Android devices
Building out the base
Sony Ericsson breaks out resources to support Xperia Play development
Don't let the analog touch pad cause tricky thread synchronisation
What launch publishers and developers think about Xperia Play
Getting good vibrations
Future for MeeGo looks bleak
Intel not blinking, wiping away a tear
Critical Thought's Whatley sees Nokia deal as being strategic and important for Microsoft too
Flip your perspective
Thanks for ditching Symbian, but we're still cautious over Nokia's Windows Phone future, says IUGO
Bad history but hope ahead?
Android gamers worth $1.90 per month compared to $4 for iPhone
So says Mobclix
RealNetworks sees 2010 game revenues drop 9% to $111 million
Q4 income rising though
Ovi Store is doing 4 million daily downloads in 190 countries
300,000 new users signing up every day
Nokia switches to XNA Framework for future smartphone game development
Qt remains for legacy Symbian devices only
Why Nokia's Microsoft deal is great news for mobile gaming
Xbox gains a Finnish champion
Nokia shakes up structure, creating separate smartphone and feature phone units
Symbian becomes a cash cow 'franchise platform'
Nokia: We looked at Android, but it's commodotised, with value essentially moved to Google
MeeGo device will ship but only as an experiment
Nokia and Microsoft announce broad global strategic smartphone partnership
Disruptive force in the global industry
Gamerizon's Alex Sakiz on building out the Chop Chop franchise to 20 games and 40 million downloads
Targeting 30-50% install base across kids' iOS devices
Glu sees FY2010 revenue fall 19% to $64.3 million, but cash flow doubled
Smartphone and freemium sales rise strongly
Qualcomm highlights power of its third generation dual-core Snapdragon architecture
75 devices announced, 150 in development