Apple has added two separate categories for augmented reality games and applications to the App Store.

Valve will add histograms with the dynamics of positive and negative ratings to the Steam game pages. This will help to resist the “review-bombing” — the collapse of the game’s rating with a large number of negative reviews.

Apple has excluded the App Store from the iTunes media player for PC and Mac platforms in the latest update of the program.

Magic Leap is looking for $500 million in investments to accelerate the release of augmented reality headsets. These investments will raise the startup’s value to $6 billion.

The VKontakte social network will host the VK High Score conference in Moscow on October 12. It is aimed at developers of games for VK social and mobile platforms.

The release of the Direct Games mobile gaming platform from the VKontakte social network took place. The key feature of the platform is the ability to launch HTML5 games directly from the VK mobile application without a separate installation.

The Odnoklassniki social network is now introducing five new features aimed at improving the monetization of games. What are these tools App2Top.ru told one of the representatives of the network.

Support for the Flash multimedia platform will last until the end of 2020, Adobe reports.

The Nintendo Switch hybrid console symbolizes Nintendo’s departure from the two-device business model that the company has adhered to for almost 30 years.

BlueStacks has released the third version of the platform of the same name-an emulator for running Android games on desktops.

Yahoo Japan has launched the Game Plus game portal for mobile platforms and PC. It supports HTML5 games and cloud streaming of games.

The American company Atari has demonstrated the appearance of a new product — the Ataribox game console, announced at E3 this year.

The main page of the Twitch streaming platform will begin displaying the Twitch Pulse social stream from clips and broadcast recordings.

In June, the Russian social network Fotostrana celebrated its ninth birthday. We talked with Leonid Katz, CRO of the social network, about what she can offer the game developer today.

The G2A game key store promised to open the sellers’ data to customers and work more transparently in the future.

35% of developers of virtual and augmented reality applications have chosen the HTC Vive VR headset as a platform for developing exclusive applications.

Nintendo has announced a mini-console Super Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition. It will be released on September 29 this year.

Sony admitted that they did not expect the popularity of virtual reality mode among Capcom horror Resident Evil 7 players.

The developers of games for the platforms of the Odnoklassniki social network have a new monetization tool – video advertising.