Valve has decided to tighten the rules regarding promotion on Steam. Now game developers can promote only Steam versions of their products on the platform.  Other sites cannot be mentioned.

Facebook still managed to release Facebook Gaming on iOS after five refusals from Apple. However, in order to do this, the company was forced to remove all games and related functions from its application.At the same time, Android users, where Facebook Gaming appeared in April, have access to all the functions of the application.

Last week, VKontakte announced the appearance of a catalog of downloadable games on its pages. We asked about the working conditions with the initiative Elizaveta Zharkova, Head of development and support of the gaming platform.

The European Union has launched an official antitrust investigation into the Apple App Store. The government is concerned that it is possible to sell content in the Apple store only through its own payment system, whose commission is 30%.

The story continues with the removal of games from the Chinese App Store that have not received a local license. This time Sensor Tower shares new details.

The authors of the VR Heaven blog interviewed Reddit users about whether VR helmets cause “seasickness”. It turned out that this problem depends on the gender of the player.

The imminent end of the Flash era means the end for some Facebook gaming services, too. The social network announced that it will support Gameroom for only a year. Even earlier, the ability to launch new web games on Facebook will disappear.

On the Defold engine, you can now make games for Switch. The Defold Foundation announced the integration with the Nintendo console.

The Android release of GameClub took place. This is a service that, for a monthly subscription of $4.99, opens access to a library of 100 old mobile titles (including The Heist, Gravity Hook, Toki Tori, Frozen Synapse and others).

The relationship between Apple and Facebook is not going well. The Apple company does not want a Facebook app with its own library of games to appear in the App Store.

Apple continues to please with news on the eve of WWDC 2020. Yesterday, without any announcements or warnings, she updated the App Store Connect, the manager for working with iOS applications.

Sega has announced the re-release of the retro Game Gear console. The new device is called Game Gear Micro. And it’s very tiny!

Valve is really preparing a new cloud service. It is called Cloud Play and allows you to play Steam games through third-party cloud services.

Another piece of news from China. The local PlayStation Store has suspended operations due to security breaches. It is unclear when the site will open again.

The coronavirus crisis has hit Kickstarter. The crowdfunding platform will lay off up to 45% of its staff due to a sharp reduction in revenue.

The WN Hub digital game dev platform continues to work. Here you will find the schedule of the site’s online lectures for Wednesday, April 29. 

We publish the schedule of lectures on the WN Hub digital platform for Tuesday, April 28. Recall that the platform works from April 22 to April 30 in open mode.

The work of the digital platform for game dev WN Hub continues. We are sharing the schedule of online lectures for Monday, April 27.

Today, on April 22, the WN Hub was released. It is a platform for developers, marketers and game publishers. We tell you how it looks and works.