Developers and publishers on Steam will soon have the opportunity to create personal pages. They will display games published by companies on the Valve platform. This is reported on the Steamworks website.

The social network Facebook has launched a page with game broadcasts and opened a new Level Up program designed to support video game streamers.

Apple has introduced an updated augmented reality platform ARKit 2, which will appear in the latest version of the iOS 12 mobile operating system. Among other features in ARKit 2, support for multiplayer in AR games is announced.

About half a billion users enter the Apple mobile app store every week. This was announced by the company’s CEO Tim Cook at the annual WWDC conference.

VKontakte has introduced advertising privileges for games and applications hosted on the social network platform. This was announced to App2Top by the head of the VKontakte gaming platform Maxim Babichev.

The App Store will be 10 years old in July. By the anniversary date, the App Annie analytical platform has prepared statistics on the financial performance of Apple’s mobile store from 2010 to 2017. According to App Annie, last year 75% of the company’s revenue from mobile came from games.

VKontakte will allow users to finance projects using crowdfunding. To do this, VK launched the “Goals” service. It is available to the administrator of any community on the social network.

Owners of Apple mobile devices will not be able to play titles from the Steam library on them through the Steam Link streaming application. Apple has not allowed Valve to place the Steam Link in the App Store, according to the publication Venture Beat.

The PlayStation 4 console has entered the final phase of its life cycle. This was announced by the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment John Kodera at a reporting meeting with investors.

Steam expands the possibilities for remote playback of games and videos. From the second half of May, users of the Valve platform will be able to play titles and watch videos from their libraries on mobile devices through the Steam Link and Steam Video applications.

The update for Google’s Chrome browser caused unforeseen difficulties for developers and gamers. After the update in Chrome, the sound stopped working in some browser games created on HTML5.

The Sensor Tower analytical platform has studied the impact of different features in the App Store gaming section in iOS 11 on title downloads. It turned out that promotion through features increases the installation of the game up to 450%.

Snapchat messenger has introduced a new Snappables game format. These are small AR games that use video from the front camera.

Google has announced the contenders for the annual Google Play Awards. She is awarded the best games and applications presented in the Google Play store.

The digital video game store Kartridge from Kongregate promises to give developers 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the title until the product earns $ 10 thousand. The condition applies to games released only on Kartridge.

The digital online game store GOG,com has added user profiles and a number of social features. So the service has become even more similar to Steam.

The Twitch stream platform has begun beta testing of a monetization system that will reward both streamers and developers of Twitch Extensions interactive add-ons.

Sensor Tower analysts have calculated how much the feature in the App Store updated last fall began to affect app downloads. According to their estimates, in the American App Store, the weekly increase in installations of the promoted application can be 800%.

The social network Facebook is developing a new type of interactive ads. These are small demo versions of games that can be played directly in the news feed without preloading.