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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
Develop Liverpool: Why Orange made an iPhone game, and what it learned in the process
Changing corporate culture
Develop Liverpool: Intel bullish on the potential exploding around Atom hardware and its AppUp store
Already 1,400 apps hosted
Assyria prepares to launch Daily App Dream discovery site
Freebies for Christmas
Analysis: Why it makes sense for middleware companies to become mobile game publishers
Unity, YoYo and Gendai relying on grassroots for success
New digital publisher Tradewest sets up virtual shop
Prepping TxT Fighter for App Store
GameSalad launches its own iOS publishing initiative - GameSalad Accelerator
Bringing indie developers into the business
Adult Android app store MiKandi rolls out virtual currency
Replacing rolled up tenners in the garters
Com2uS ignores Android Market with exclusive GetJar launch for Slice It!
In the footsteps of Angry Birds
Angry Birds now up to 36 million downloads
Christmas version also announced
Samsung Galaxy Tab's first month sales now confirmed as 700,000
Another day, another 100,000
GameSalad introduces new Free to Make option and cheaper Professional membership
Even cheaper for current users under legacy offer
Namco leads Black Friday sales with 53 cheaper iOS, Android and BlackBerry games
From Bit.Trip.Beat to Time Crisis Strike
Samsung Galaxy Tab does 600,000 sales in first month
That's 60 percent of iPad's launch
Grey Area CEO Ville Vesterinen on building out the success of location-based Finnish hit Shadow Cities
From Helsinki to the world
Train Conductor goes FreeAppADay, does 2 million downloads in 5 days
Paid sequel enters the US top 10
Mobile Pie does 53,000 downloads of bada pool game in 2 weeks
Covering all bases
Spacetime Studios adds 125,000 users taking its Pocket Legends MMOG to Android
Multipler
Scoreloop is adding three million new users per month
Driven by strong Android growth
$1.99 version of RAGE strongly outselling 99c release
Get what you pay for
Ovi Store delivers 3 million downloads per day
400,000 new developers too
Cut the Rope is the fastest selling iOS game ever to three million
And I've got three press releases to prove it
Imagination Technologies prepares for further acquisitions in graphics chip sector
Got a warchest, gonna use it
Antix's universal game platform for web, mobile, tablet and TV soft launches
Games that play everywhere
A&N Mobile explains why Metro will be a powerful publishing brand for games
Launching with Super Yum Yum on iPhone
Qualcomm opens submissions for its $200,000 Augmented Reality Developer Challenge
Eye popping
HandyGames' strikes gold with two million downloads of Guns'n'Glory
iOS, Android and Ovi spreading the fun
CEO De Masi says Glu's mobile expertise has vindicated its freemium decision
And why it's primed for Android growth
PlayFirst on its Dash series; 'arguably the most successful on the App Store'
High quality, high price, high retention
Crescent Moon's Josh Presseisen on using Unity and making an award winning game
Calms the eternal enmity between coder and artist
Godzilab's Thomas Lachartre on how going freemium boosted StarDunk to 1.7 million downloads
Won't work for every game though
Chillingo's version of Zen Bound pulled from App Store; republished by Secret Exit
Finnish rope trick
Market likes Glu's new freemium model as its shares shoot up to a two year high
Gun Bros. does 1 million downloads
Opinion: 5 steps to successfully moving from today's app store into tomorrow's unknowns
What we learnt from AppCon 2010
YoYo Games opens up as a mobile publisher for Game Maker content
First for iPhone and iPad, then Android and beyond
Analysis: Q3 learnings about the rise of freemium versus the App Store challenge
The triumphs of DeNA to the setbacks of Glu and EA
Growing fast, but freemium only accounts for 4% of Glu's revenue
Needs go to exponential
Appular's Decespedes: Selling a game is the key skill publishers have and developers need
Symbiotic relationship
Player X sales director Cedric Maisonnier joins Selatra
Pushing on-device portal
Cut the Rope and Linkoidz are top Quality Index games for October
Critical acclaim
FreeAppADay is planning a bespoke app version of the App Store
Viral promotion scheme pushes out
With Q2 sales of $336 million, Japanese mobile gaming platform DeNA on track for 2010 turnover of $1.25 billion
Claims it puts Facebook and Zygna in the shade
Most popular new platform for developers in 2011 will be Android
Followed by iPad and Windows Phone 7
Glu CEO confesses to server issues with freemium launch Gun Bros.
Build it and too many might come
RealNetworks sees Q3 2010 game revenues slide 13% to $25.8 million
But operating profit is up to $2.4 million
Newtoy's making over $1 million per month from Words With Friends
Thanks to five million MAUs
Clearly displaying the volume vs profits dilemma of smartphone makers
Apple, RIM, Nokia and HTC comparison
PopCap explains it will likely release in multiple Android stores such as GetJar and Amazon
Spread the load
Windows Phone 7 sales in Germany expected to be six figures in 2010
Kaiser Microsoft
THQ Wireless' Q2 FY11 sales down 46% to $1.5 million
Rebuilding a business