Android activation rate up to 200,000 daily
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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
Ngmoco offers gamers a notional $3.50 to play We Rule
Three million kingdoms created. More wanted
Glu Mobile's Q2 2010 breakdown: 19% of revenue from smartphones, 16% from Verizon
300k daily iPhone users, 130m minutes per month
Glu CEO de Masi points to future strategy with 127% jump in IAP and in-game ad revenue
Five persistent games due for Q4 launch
Losses widen at Glu as Q2 2010 revenues slide 20% to $16 million
Situation not helped by foreign exchange fluctuations
EA Mobile sees steady growth of 4% in Q1 FY11 with $52 million in sales
Claims #1 App Store status
Nokia to stamp its authority on apps ecosystem with Ovi Store
First impact to come with heralded N8
Ovi Store and N8 are an excellent monetisation opportunity says Nokia UK boss
Finnish giant bullish about joined-up future
NaturalMotion hooks up with KFC for chicken strut version of Backbreaker
American Football game breadcrumbed, deep fried
29% of current BlackBerry users want an iPhone next
And another 21% want Android
PopCap and EA Mobile refresh distribution deal with Zuma Revenge!
New marble popper gets global promotion
Adequate App Store performance isn't enough to balance Capcom's console shortfall
Remains secondary market for big publishers
RIM prepares fight back against Apple with BlackBerry 9800 and Blackpad tablet
Big day coming
IUGO promotes Sarah Thomson to veep of biz dev
Levelled up
RealNetworks sees Q2 2010 game revenues slide 5% to $28 million
Matt Hulett installed as new boss for social and online focus
Gameloft sees half year sales up 11% to 66.6 million euros
App Store sales up 113% in Q2
Cobra Mobile's Mark Ettle on why he's sticking with Apple and not going cross-platform
100 million reasons
Antonio Vince Staybl explains why itsmy has evolved into an open social mobile gaming portal
And why it's not supporting Flash 10.1
Apple opens up iAd for app developers
Trying to increase fillrate
Fishlabs: iAd's eCPM is 10 to 20 times higher than other networks
Fill rate up, but CTR still in single digits
ARM sees strong Q2 growth with revenue up 54% to £100 million
Average of 2.6 ARM chips in every smartphone
Samsung reveals top 10 most downloaded bada apps
Need For Speed Shift in at number 2
High-end desktop and mobile graphics supported in new OpenGL 4.1 standard
Comes with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
Com2uS downgrades 2010 guidance as Q2 sales drop 15% to $5.6 million
But ups smartphone prediction
Namco releases Games Portal discovery app
Follow the trail of dots
How Pocket Protector made a game for the price of its boss' Jeep Grand Cherokee
And why it's charging $4.99 for the result
Skyzone and Gamelion define Android game releases via screen resolution
Are you 320x480 or WVGA?
Microsoft signs up for closer access to ARM's mobile CPU technology
Ramping up its mobile R&D efforts
Challenging times see Nokia's Q2 2010 sales up 1% to 10 billion euros, but profits slide 15%
Smartphone sales up 42 percent year-on-year
Qualcomm's Q3 2010 net income up 4 percent to $767 million
Operating cash flow $951 million
Opinion: Why iPhone game developers don't understand the difference between price and value
And why it's ruining your business
Apple generated $2.1 billion or 13% of total Q3 revenues from iPad
That's $642 per iPad versus $631 per iPhone
Apple's quarterly revenue hits an all-time high in Q3 2010 of $15.7 billion
But despite iPhone 4, iPhone sales slightly down
Good for indie developers, Game Center will be another barrier for publishers says Scoreloop
Barbed wire around the walled garden
Mobile games need to be designed around social interaction says Scoreloop
Be friendly, encourage communities
Scoreloop: 29% of mobile gamers classify themselves as hardcore
They enjoy multiplayer and multi-tasking
Namco Bandai to release a game monthly within Mobage-Town
Social hook up
SGN's launches first cross-platform real-time Android and iPhone game
Skies of Glory is free for iPhone but $4.99 for Android
Search on Android is up 300% in six months, Android Market now 70k apps strong
Mobile is offensive move say execs
Flurry launches AppCircle discovery and recommendation service
Out now for iOS, and for Android in August
IGN Wireless extends games coverage with new Android section
Another outlet realises mobile is more than just Apple
Toy Story 3 does 1.7 million free downloads in a month
JellyCar 2's sold a million too
Milthon awards now open for European developers
French embrace the continent
GameSalad company Gendai raises $1 million
First funding round lead by DFJ Mercury
US mobile ad market growing fast; iOS requests up 36%, Android 23%
According to Millennial's latest Mobile Mix report
GAME launches mobile games portal
Powered by Zed
Rovio wins Develop best new download IP award for Angry Birds
Unity picks up two tech awards
Archetype sells 160,000 copies in week one
Game is currently #2 US top grossing
Unite 2010 developer conference announced
10-12 November, Montreal
One million PlayStation Minis sold
Roughly 0.017 per PSP