Data digest: a flurry of funding news, the fastest-growing franchises plus milestones for Tasty Travels, Tiles Survive and War Robots
New VC FirstPoint emerges and there’s cash for Reforged, Uplane and Smash Games in this week’s round-up.
Tim Cook oversaw one of gaming’s biggest platforms for 15 years but didn’t seem to notice
Will incoming Apple CEO John Ternus give a little more love to games on the App Store? Probably – it’s hard to imagine him being more dismissive of games than outgoing boss Tim Cook.
Supercell boss Ilkka Paananen’s BAFTA Fellowship is ‘for the entire mobile games industry’
He was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship on Friday in honour of his work as Supercell boss plus his contributions to the games industry as an investor, mentor and philanthropist.