Kickstarter has announced plans to create a “decentralized future” for its platform. Next year it will switch to the blockchain protocol. The company’s decision was criticized by many indie developers, promising to switch to other crowdfunding platforms.Kickstarter told about its plans on the official website.

iOS developers have new features. The App Store has officially launched the Custom product pages tool. It allows you to create additional pages for a published mobile application.

Apple has a backup plan on how not to lose money if it cannot reject the court’s decision in the proceedings with Epic Games. The company is thinking about taking a commission on all in—app purchases – it doesn’t matter if they are made through its payment system or bypassed.

Against the background of GOG’s losses, CD Projekt shared its plans for the store’s future. The main task is to restructure in order to increase its financial stability. Some of the employees will be transferred to the game development team. GOG itself will no longer be financially dependent on other CD Projekt divisions and will continue to develop the concept of selling titles without DRM protection.CD Projekt told about this during a conversation with investors…

The Xbox Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming service has become officially available on consoles. Xbox users will now be able to play games from the Game Pass library without installing them on their hard drive. Russia, however, is not yet on the list of supported countries.Microsoft announced the launch of Cloud Gaming on the official Xbox blog.

A few days ago, a number of mobile publishers accused Apple of secretly buying Google ads for selected applications. The company allegedly does this to increase its revenue from subscriptions. Apple claims that all such campaigns were coordinated with the developers and do not violate the rules of the App Store.What happened?

META Publishing has agreed with Steam to hold the second Pancake Week 2022 Carnival Festival. The company has already opened the acceptance of applications for participants. An important condition is that the developer studio or publisher of the game must be from the CIS countries.The second Carnival Festival will be held from February 28 to March 6, 2022.

Apple traditionally does not consider applications in the App Store Connect during the holidays. However, this year the company decided to make an exception — it will be possible to submit an update request for its application even at Christmas. Developers are still advised to hurry up.Apple told about this on November 8, publishing a small blog post for developers.

The year 2021 has already become the largest in the history of the Nintendo Switch in terms of the number of new releases. Over the past two months, almost 200 fresh games have appeared on the platform on average.Statistics on new releases for Nintendo Switch were shared by Thomas Bidaux, founder of Ico Partners.

South Korea has become the first country for which Google has specifically changed the rules of its app store. Now developers will be able to freely use third-party payment systems, while giving the company 4% less. This is necessary to comply with the so-called “Law against Google“.Google announced this last week in its blog.

Microsoft has announced metaverse, a project based on its mixed reality Mesh platform. It is designed to work together in a virtual space and will be integrated into Teams. In the future, the company plans to add its own games to the metaverse.The Mesh for Teams project was presented at the Ignite conference, which took place on November 2.

Google talked about the latest changes in its store. As part of the Android Developer Summit, the company shared details about new tools for improving security, opportunities for monetization of applications and improving their quality. Google also announced the launch of a program for certification of marketers.

Yesterday, Facebook Corporation officially changed its name to Meta. The company has announced a number of new products and technologies that will help it on its way to creating its own metaverse. We tell you in detail about Meta’s ambitions, its concept, main functions and the reaction of market experts to the rebranding.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation has opened a case against Apple. The company is accused of abusing its dominant position in the market. Now Apple faces a fine for prohibiting developers from informing users about alternative payment methods outside the App Store.The FAS announced this on its website on October 27.

Apple has made changes to the App Store guidelines. One of the points concerns the lifting of the ban on informing users about alternative payment methods outside of iOS. This is a direct response to a class action lawsuit from developers that the company settled in August.In total, Apple changed three points of its rules on October 22.

Google continues to modernize its commission policy on Google Play. She announced that she would reduce the commission from 30% to 15% for all applications with subscriptions — immediately from the first day of use.

The editors of the App Store, if desired, may refuse to publish the application if they consider the category “oversaturated” and the product devoid of uniqueness.

Three representatives of the TikTok advertising platform spoke at the WN Conference today: Andrey Hristyuk, Ignatiy Bodrikov and Konstantin Inin. They shared tips on creating creatives for their platform and showed a couple of cases with games.

Mail.ru The Group was renamed VK. As part of the rebranding, the group of companies updated the logo and announced the creation of a single ecosystem that will unite all existing and new services. Some products will be renamed.This was announced by the company’s CEO Boris Dobrodeev during a news broadcast.