Google has announced the release of a new version of the integrated application development environment (IDE) Android Studio.

Oculus has lowered the price of the Rift virtual reality helmet and Touch controllers.

Nintendo has announced the release of over 60 games from independent developers on the new Switch platform.

Video streaming service Twitch will start selling games and game content this spring. Viewers will be able to buy games directly during the broadcasts of their gameplay.

In 2016, the average check of Apple smartphone users in the United States increased by $5 and amounted to about $40.

On February 16, the results of the first European Google Play Indie Games Contest were summed up in London. A jury of experts from the mobile games industry awarded the victory to the Reigns project of the British studio Nerial.

Search giant Google and MMO game developer NetEase are in talks to launch Google Play on Android devices in China.

As part of a major Windows 10 update, Microsoft will introduce a number of new features aimed at gamers: a gaming section in the settings, streaming from the system, a game panel and a game mode that increases the performance of games.

With the release of iOS 10.3, developers will be allowed to respond to user comments in the App Store. How this will affect the work with the audience, App2Top was told by representatives of ZeptoLab, Mail.Ru Games, IGG, devtodev and Publisher Wanted.

Can the price of an app affect its visibility and position in the App Store? – ASOdesk and Kindermatica received the answer to this question as part of a joint study.

Live testing of applications that do not require downloading a distribution kit and installation to work has started on Android.

Subscriptions are the fastest growing type of monetization on Google Play. Over the past three years, user spending on subscriptions has increased 10-fold. Google has decided to accelerate this pace with the help of new functionality.

Since Friday, it has become easier for developers to “dump” in-game currency to testers and journalists. Apple has introduced the ability to make promo codes for in-app purchases.

Representatives of the Odnoklassniki social network answered the questions App2Top.ru concerning plans to pay developers only 10% of payments made by users made by Bonus OKS.

Yesterday, on September 7, the Odnoklassniki social network announced that from November 1 it will pay developers only 10% of the game payments made by Bonus OKS. App2Top.ru I asked representatives of top Russian-speaking companies in the social games market about their attitude to the innovation.

Odnoklassniki is going to pay developers only 10% of the Bonus Shackles spent by network users in games.

Mobile apps for iOS that have not been updated for a long time, as well as those whose names are too long, will be removed from the App Store.

Android apps that are in the open beta stage can now receive a feature on Google Play. The app store has launched a selection of Early Access specially for them.

Google has introduced new features for searching and working with user reviews on Google Play, A/B testing and updating APK games.