Russian social networks are actively promoting the development of mobile HTML5 games. The other day, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte announced a contest for their creators. They promise money and traffic.

The Russian search giant Yandex has officially unveiled its gaming platform and announced that from today it is open to third-party developers.

On April 4, the social platform Snapchat announced the launch of its own mobile gaming platform. It’s called Snap Games. Among its first partners are ZeptoLab, Zynga and PikPok.

The founder of the analytical service Steam Spy Sergey Galenkin has suspended accepting payments on Patreon. According to the developer, the service is having problems right now.

Discord, whose audience reached 200 million people in December, has made major changes to the distribution model of games. He closed his own game store, but at the same time allowed developers to sell them themselves as part of the service.

Epic Games is working on the transparency of its game store. She shared the service development plan for the next six months. The information is presented in the Trello task manager.

This is $19 million more than the game developers received in the same period from VKontakte.

And they revealed that they paid 300 million rubles to mobile developers for 2018.

Today, on October 22, the official announcement of the new site from VKontakte took place. The social network announced that it is preparing a platform on which independent PC game developers will be able to post their games.

Yesterday, September 17, the public version of iOS 12 became available. The ASO service ASO Project told about the changes that game developers should keep in mind in his blog. We offer a version of the material in Russian.

VKontakte has introduced an important update for its Direct Games mobile gaming platform. From September 5, the games of the platform can send alerts to their users through the functionality of the mobile application of the social network.

Odnoklassniki launches a contest among mobile HTML5 developers. They promise traffic, money and possible investment from the outside Mail.Ru Game Ventures. Thus, the social network wants to increase the range of projects on its mobile gaming platform.

A little joy in the feed for HTML5 developers. The Direct Games gaming platform will return to the iOS version of the VKontakte application. There will be no more IAP. But they will offer an alternative — rewarding advertising.

Facebook intends to cancel a 30% commission on revenue from in-game purchases in games of the Instant Games service on the Android platform. This is reported

Valve has officially introduced a streaming platform Steam.tv Currently, the platform broadcasts only the games of the annual 2018 Dota 2 International Championship, which is taking place these days in Vancouver.

Facebook has added augmented reality games to its messenger for the first time, which can be played in a video chat.

The Odnoklassniki social network told App2Top.ru how the income of their developers is distributed by genre. She also revealed that she had paid ₽100 million to mobile developers in five months.

Snapchat messenger will allow third-party developers to create and release games in their application. This is reported by the publication The Information, citing a source close to the Snapchat-owning company Snap Inc. The company itself has not commented on these rumors yet.

Almost all games downloaded from Google Play are found by users in the store itself by searching and viewing the catalog. Mainly advertising traffic accounts for only 12%, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower.