Apple has denied some developers the placement of games and applications in the App Store due to the use of Apple branded emojis in the interface of their products. The reason for the refusal was also the emoji on the demo screenshots of the application page in the store.

Google Corporation plans to create a gaming service on cloud servers. And in the future, it can present its own game console, Engadget reports.

On February 6, the Odnoklassniki social network announced the release of the OK Games application. It allows you to run web games from the platform library on the desktop. Including projects made using Flash technology, which is not supported by default by Chrome, Mozilla and Opera browsers.

Facebook is developing its own platform for game streaming. As part of this, the company officially launched the Gaming Creator Pilot Program. The goal of the program is to attract new creators of gaming video content to Facebook and help them gain an audience.

The MAU of streamers on the YouTube Gaming platform increased by 343% in 2017. This is reported by the analytical company Streamlabs in the report on the state of the gaming stream industry for the 4th quarter of last year.

The pace of initial sales of the Nintendo Switch in the first 10 months made it the fastest-selling home gaming system in the United States, according to Nintendo.

The success of the Nintendo Switch launch last year exceeded Nintendo‘s expectations. But the president of the company Tatsumi Kimishima (Tatsumi Kimishima) believes that the real tests for the Switch will begin in the second year of the console’s existence.

Steam started the year with records. The number of simultaneous users on the platform in the first week of 2018 exceeded 18.5 million people. This is the largest indicator in the history of the service, according to the Steam Database resource.

At the end of this year, the Odnoklassniki social platform published an extensive list of the best projects on its platform.

The list of the best games of the outgoing year was shared by the social network Vkontakte. The selection includes ten projects launched on the platform this year.

Unexpected. This is how we can describe in one word a selection of the best games from Facebook for the past year. The fact is that the main draft of the final list is far from being heard by the general public.

One less mystery. Startup Magic Leap demonstrated the design of augmented reality glasses Magic Leap One. The project was developed for 6 years in secrecy and raised $1.9 billion in investments.

The developer of social casinos FlowPlay will transfer its flagship title Vegas World to the cross-platform technology Haxe from the Adobe Flash platform in the next 2 years.

The first portion is free. Apple allowed developers to give the first months of an automatically renewable subscription either at a reduced price or at no cost at all.

The Curators Connect feature has been launched on Steam, which allows game developers to send game keys to participants of the curated program without leaving the platform.

Nintendo will officially release classic hits from the Nintendo Wii in China on the Nvidia Shield gaming tablet: New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess and others.

The holiday is coming to us. Google was the first among the platforms to sum up the results. She named the most downloaded games released on Google Play in 2017.

Quarterly sales of virtual reality helmets exceeded 1 million devices for the first time. Such a number of VR headsets were implemented in the third quarter of 2017.

Apple has acquired Vrvana startup for about $30 million, Techcrunch reports, citing internal sources.