Green Apple
Apple offers up $1 billion green bond to fund clean energy and environmental projects
Showing support for the Paris climate agreement
Children Are The Future
British eSports Association partners with Wesminster City Council to create first after-school eSports training club
Teaching kids important life skills through the power of competitive video games
Best In Class
Google Play adds quarterly Android Excellence section to highlight its best apps and games
Galaxy of Heroes and Hitman GO among the first to be featured
Level Up
Level-5 acquires Keiji Inafune's studio Comcept
Currently developing mobile title Dragon Colonies
Critical Mass
Mobile eSports shooter Critical Ops clears 20 million downloads with no paid UA
Still considered a soft launch title
Switch It Up
Nintendo teases new Pokemon RPG, Metroid Prime 4, Yoshi and Kirby for Switch
Game Freak developing core Pokemon RPG for console
From The Ashes
Kabam spin-off Phoenix One decloaks to reveal hardcore real-time strategy game Guardian Kingdoms
Developed as Kabam was considering selling its business
Struck Gold
TreasureHunt closes $6 million series A funding round ahead of Pet Paradise launch
Total funding now sits at $8.4 million
Marketing On The Go
AppsFlyer launches mobile marketing app for advertisers on the go
Check your KPIs while you're on the train or out for a coffee
Tapjoy Ad Preferences
79% of mobile gamers prefer opt-in rewarded video ads to mandatory ads
Tapjoy asks gamers what ads they like to see
Fight The Tide
Playmob partners with We Are The Oceans to raise awareness of climate change through playable ads
Previous ad garnered 3.2 million plays
Link Up
Sony makes the smartphone a PS4 controller with new PlayLink range
Multiplayer-focused games offer potential for unique new games
Franchise Season
Finnish developer Koukoi Games expands Crashing Season IP with new endless runner
Developer wants to turn game into a franchise
Gambling Fears
Lineage 2 Revolution trading system shut down
Publisher in hot water over real money trading system
See If You Can't Unwind
Ubisoft taps South Park IP for mobile game Phone Destroyer
Coming later this year
Starman
Ubisoft gets in on toys-to-life space with new IP Starlink
Comes with a customisable ship
Daaahhh!
Ubisoft teams up with Nintendo for Mario Rabbids crossover on Switch
Shigeru Miyamoto makes surprise appearance during reveal
Final Wave
Two weeks to go to PG Connects San Francisco... time for a final round of speakers
Glu, GREE, BlackStorm, Linekong, Pocket Gems and ESG among 26 new names
Get That Job
Steel Media is expanding its events team for our ever-growing conference series – Come join us!
We're on the hunt for a Conference Content Producer
Directing Brainz
Colombian developer Brainz adds former Miniclip CTO to Board of Directors
Camilo Marrugo will help see the developer right
Minecraft Everywhere
Minecraft adds cross-platform play between mobile, PC and consoles
DLC will also transfer between consoles
A Grand Order
Sony's Fate/Grand Order launches in North America on June 25th following nine million downloads in Asia
Can it make it big in the West?
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Balls VS Blocks knocks off Fidget Spinner from the top of the download rankings
Rankings from May 29th to June 4th
Cash Vault
Fallout Shelter racks up 100 million downloads
Still bringing in the money two years on
The Weekly
The Weekly: EA's crazy vision of the future, the 10-year-old app developer and Game Freak's Gear Project
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Highest Bid
Appodeal launches new ad exchange platform for mobile developers
AppodealX available as part of Appodeal SDK 2.0
Mobile Masters
Amazon brings Summoners War, Hearthstone and Vainglory together for Mobile Masters Invitiational eSports tournament
Top teams and streamers come together to battle it out for a $65,000 prize pool
Sow The Seeds
Discord reportedly valued at $725 million after quietly raising $50 million funding round
Also hires former Twitch veteran Andy Swanson as Head of Publisher Relations
Pokemon Party
Pokemon GO clears 750 million downloads as Niantic prepares first anniversary celebrations
Time to crack open a cold Pokemon with the boys
New Dawn
NaturalMotion taps EA Red Crow GM to head up Dawn of Titans development
Jeff Hickman joins as Senior VP of Action Strategy
Bandai Docomo Partnership
Bandai Namco Europe partners with Docomo Digital to push into emerging mobile markets
New HTML5 games being developed for the venture
Large Congregation
Kongregate surpasses 100 million downloads across its mobile games portfolio in four years
Currently has 15 million MAUs
Studio Closure
Sources: EA closes Chillingo office in UK
Macclesfield studio shut down but publishing label remains active
Winding Down
NaturalMotion winding down commercial tech licensing business for third-party developers
Focusing on live operations and new game development
Just The Essentials
Android creator raises further $300 million funding to disrupt smartphone space
Big cash injection following debut smartphone launch
A Win For Indies
Indie games clean up at Apple Design Awards 2017
Blackbox, Mushroom 11 and Severed among the winners
From Australia To India
Mech Mocha partners with Halfbrick to release Indian version of Jetpack Joyride
Bangalore outfit will adapt the game for Indian audience
Hey There
Former Chillingo Marketing Director opens new consultancy
HeyStephenHey to offer marketing services throughout a game's lifecycle
New Studio
QA and localisation outfit Pole To Win opens Tapei office
Branch will focus on QA, translation, localisation and customer experience
Jobs News
FoxNext Games promotes Rick Phillips as its new President
Will oversee publishing group and licensing deals for games
Goooaallll
Hugo Games signs up Liverpool FC for upcoming football game Soccer League
Joins PSG, Juventus, and more as featured teams
King Of Clash
Clash of Clans is having its best grossing performance on the App Store in 16 months after major update
Nine days at the top thanks to the Builder Base update
Birds To Vr
Angry Birds 2 lead programmer Jonas Johansson unveils social VR studio Neuston
Bringing his mobile and console experience together into VR
Speak Now
Want to speak at PG Connects Helsinki 2017 on September 19th to 20th?
Submissions for fourth Finland event are in full swing
Planet Of The Apps
Apple pushes into reality TV with new Apple Music show Planet of the Apps
Will.i.am could help you develop your app
Top Move?
Apple may dump App Store top grossing charts in iOS 11
Could have wide impact on industry and consumers
Surfin' With Persson
Subway Surfers developer Sybo hires ex-King Head of Studio as its new Head of Games
Pushing the studio to the next level
Instant Success
Monument Valley 2 storms the App Store download charts to take top spot
Strong start for sequel to popular puzzle game
Power Of Teamwork
SpatialOS developer Improbable hires ex-Disney and GitHub execs as CCO and CMO
Bill Roper and Jason Jhonson join the team
Roll Out
Transformers: Earth Wars clears 10 million downloads just in time for first anniversary
Space Ape to host events and launch new content during anniversary month