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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
Gameloft is the most diverse mobile games publisher with 352 titles across six platforms
Amazingly BlackBerry App World is the most popular
OpenFeint confirms Game Center migration and compatibility tools
Hopes developers will stay with the program though
Opinion: Is Unreal Engine 3's availability good for iOS developers?
Between a parallax mapped rock and a glorious vision
Shmup Dodonpachi Resurrection sells 30,000 in four days
Bullet hell, App Store heaven
Unreal Engine 3 now available for iOS developers to license
Project Sword and Epic Citadel shows what can be done
Game Center out next week in iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod touch
iPad support delayed until 4.2 in November
Gameloft H1 2010 net profit up 140% to 5.3 million euros
Sitting on 25.9 million cash pile
Location-based toolkit Playground Maker to get first public test
Marseille, September 18 is where you need to be
Gaming portal Spil embraces mobile with launch of dedicated HTML5 websites
Also kicks off $50,000 developer contest for more content
Scoreloop launches game promotion and discovery app for Android
Also updates SDK
FAAD does one million app downloads; launches Jaws into US paid top 5
Taking a big bite out of app promotion
Google buys casual iPhone studio SocialDeck
Also gains cross-platform technology
Glu Mobile completes $13.5 million financing plan
Now fully funded for profitability
Intel strengthens its mobile connectivity smarts with $1.4 billion purchase of Infineon unit
Strategic acquisition for portable generation
Samsung ships one million Galaxy S smartphones in the US
Riding the Android wave
Sibblingz highlights cross platform social gaming as Happy Island comes to Android
It's the trifecta, apparently
Top 10 mobile game company sales estimated at around $700 million
$594 million plus some guessing
Gameloft stamps its mark on Samsung Apps with 80% of UK top 10 games
Cross platform strategy paying off
Samsung launches monthly budget busting games and apps promotion
Buffs up TapTapShooter 2in1 and Rescue! Stick Heroes
Digital Chocolate sues Zynga over Mafia Wars name
No respect
Apple TV reboot using A4 chip, running iOS, and with dedicated App Store rumoured
Jobs preparing to step up hobby?
Metaio announces insideAR conference for September 27
Get to Munich for the real deal
Major customer launching a new portable gaming platform using our Armada chip says Marvell
Could be 3DS. Could be something more interesting
Acer boss claims Apple will only have 20-30% of tablet market longterm
Open platforms have the advantage
Dodogo!, iBlast Moki, and N.O.V.A. nominated as best mobile games in Milthon awards
French studios dominate
Nokia and Intel are working on 3D screens and UI for MeeGo devices
The buzz deepens
Sony to target 'fairly mature' PSP at time-rich, money-poor younger audience
Subtle shift happening
International App Conference 2010 announced for Dundee
Backed by 48 hour AppJam
Angry Birds gains top iPhone game status with 6.5 million sales
Plus another 11 million free downloads
Dell launches Mobile Application Store via PocketGear
Point your Streak in this direction
Int13's AR Defender does 50,025 downloads on bada in 13 days
Germany, France, China and Spain are biggest territories
Godzilab's online iPhone game StarDunk has a piracy rate of 37.5%
Issue rears its head again
John Carmack hones the cutting edge of iPhone graphics with id Tech 5 demo
Says it runs great on original iPhone 2G too
Tower Studios launches its Free For Freaks arcade payment system on iPhone
Like an arcade cabinet with a free first play
Jon Hare on why iPhone, Android and bada are an inspiring opportunity for original games
Tower Studios launches new era with Vivid's Shoot To Kill
Backflip CEO Farrior says iAd eCPM is the highest in the business and fill rate has quadrupled
Expects big Q4 campaigns too
Backflip builds on Paper Toss' success with Strike Knight's 4 million downloads
Companys social reach is one million daily active users
Softmines to give $10 to each US launch day purchaser of its 99c Bloody Hell game
Paying to engage viral promotion
THQ Wireless Q1 FY11 sales down 63% to $1.6 million
Decline continues
JmobiL merges with PocketGamer.fr, relaunches under Pocket Gamer brand
Definitive French mobile site created
FreeAppADay bounces six apps into the US top 10 including Civilization Revolution
Releases a new app to build on social networking potential
148Apps hooks up with The Portable Gamer to expand gaming coverage
Rob LeFebvre becomes 148Apps new editor
Niccolo de Masi on making Glu Mobile the Zygna of mobile gaming
The freemium business is the audience business
In Japan, PSP outsells DS XL, DSi and DS Lite combined
PSPgo is a dog worldwide though
Weaker B2B operations sees Buongiorno H1 revenues down 4% to 128 million
But B2C business booming in Brazil, Mexico and Russia
Japanese mobile powerhouse DeNA sees Q1 2010 revenue up 175% to $279 million
Promises further mergers and acquisitions
Namco Bandai and Namco Networks combine for all-singing social gaming future
Console teams to play pretty with mobile and web folk
Metal Gear on PSP boosts Konami's Q1 FY11 income 188%
There's life in the old dogs yet
After 33 updates, Pocket God breaks 3 million paid downloads barrier
Pygmies are standing tall