Lorin Hitt from the Wharton School of Business tried to prove that the browser can circumvent the ban on billing in the App Store. He stated that for at least eight games from the list of the top 25 projects at the box office in the store, you can buy content outside of iOS.

At the beginning of the year, Google Stadia began to have big problems after the closure of internal development studios and the departure of Jade Raymond. Despite this, the company assures that the platform feels great and continues to develop. Among the arguments are regular replenishment of the library of games and cooperation with indie studios. However, Google still doesn’t say anything about the size of the service’s audience.About the current state of Stadia in…

Xbox Game Studios will now work closely with the Chinese TiMi Studios, the “daughter” of Tencent and the developers of Honor of Kings and Call of Duty: Mobile. We are talking about creating game content, but both companies have not yet disclosed the details of the partnership.This became known today from the official press release.

Ubisoft told about the changes in its development strategy. The publisher intends to release freeplay offshoots of its key franchises. However, we are not talking about reducing the number of AAA titles, but about the approach that Activision has been using in recent years to develop the Call of Duty series.Ubisoft announced this during a conversation with investors after the publication of the annual report.

Apple prohibits developers from not only implementing their own payment systems, but also generally telling users about discounts outside of iOS. For example, they cannot be sent emails with an offer to buy a subscription or game currency on the game’s website cheaper than in the App Store. Also, you cannot specify similar information in the application itself.

Turkey occupies an increasingly important place in the gaming industry. This is evidenced by the growing popularity of mobile titles from local developers on the world market. For example, now 20% of the most downloaded games in the USA are projects of Turkish studios.Royal Match

Activision Blizzard wants remasters of old games to take full advantage of three-dimensional engines and at the same time preserve the spirit of the original projects. This is evidenced by the publisher’s new patent, which deals with the technology of converting 2D assets into 3D in real time. This can theoretically greatly simplify the process of creating updated versions.Diablo II: Resurrected

Less than a month ago, an application appeared in the Epic Games Store Itch.io — stora for indie games without DRM. As Apple noted, the standards of this site are very different from the standards of the Epic Games Store. In particular in Itch.io there is a Sisterly Lust game that includes “a list of fetishes with words that should not be uttered in federal court.” Although Epic Games itself does not encourage such content.

The owners of the Epic Games Store planned to earn about $500 million if 80 of the best-selling Steam games appeared in their store. The company developed the plan in 2019. In it, Epic Games also explained that without these bestsellers, it would be problematic for her to get a large share of the PC market. However, we note that by the end of the year, the company had agreed only with the developers of…

Epic Games has revealed data on the distribution of games from December 2018 to October 2020. In the graph, the company showed how many newcomers came to the Epic Games Store after these promotions. The distribution of GTA V was the most profitable — over 7 million new users. In second place was Sid Meier’s Civilization VI — 2.5 million people.

Indie developers are required to agree to support the xCloud streaming service if they want to publish games on Xbox. Epic Games‘ internal documents state that this is a matter of principle for Microsoft, and the company uses “harsh expressions regarding the requirement.” All unsuitable games are not allowed by Microsoft or removed from the Xbox ecosystem.

On July 27, 2020 — two and a half weeks before Fortnite was removed from the App Store — Epic Games sent the Project Liberty roadmap to the board of directors. This is a plan that described the company’s actions to combat the 30% commission in the App Store and Google Play.

One of the fundamental points that Epic Games defends is the permission to use third—party payment systems in the App Store. According to the company, this will “put an end to Apple‘s monopoly”, and users will receive more convenient and cheaper payment methods inside applications. That’s just such an innovation will affect all iOS applications, not just games like Fortnite.

Last year, Microsoft fought for the appearance on iOS of the service for “playing in the cloud” xCloud. From the letters published during the trial between Epic Games and Apple, it became known that a similar Shadow Cloud Computing service suffered because of this struggle.

Shortly before the start of the confrontation with Apple, the head of Epic Games asked Microsoft to make multiplayer on Xbox consoles free. He sent a letter with this idea to Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox.

Walmart planned to launch its own game streaming service called Project Storm. It was supposed to be released on Windows and support launchers like Steam, Epic Games Store, Origin and Battle.net . It was also assumed that games in Project Storm could be obtained through subscription and direct purchases.

On May 11, the head of Epic Games sent a letter to Yves Guillemot, the head of Ubisoft. He wrote that in the last 48 hours, 70% to 90% of fraudulent transactions in The Division 2 have passed through the Epic Games Store (EGS).

During the hearing on the case, the head of Epic Games admitted that he would be satisfied if Apple decided to soften the conditions in the App Store only for his company. Apparently, it was about reducing the commission by 30%.

Sony for a long time did not want to support the crossplay function on PlayStation consoles, refusing to share its audience with competitors. In 2019, she changed her mind, but set a condition — game publishers will have to pay a commission.