In early September, Epic Games sent a petition to the court asking Apple to ban Fortnite from being removed for the duration of the proceedings. Yesterday, the court heard the arguments of the parties and decided: the battle royale will not appear in the App Store yet, and the case itself should be handed over to the jury. A new hearing will take place no earlier than July 2021.

Apple has published Christmas dates on which the App Store will not accept new games and updates for approval.

In November of this year, an average of 792 new games were published in the App Store every day. Such data was shared by the Pocket Gamer resource.

Due to Apple’s new guidelines, at least 27% of applications will have to be renamed. This is reported by the analytical company Sensor Tower.

Over the past year, users have left $20 billion in the App Store. This became known from the official press release of Apple.

Apple will celebrate the Christmas holidays by closing its main services for a week, from December 22 to December 29 inclusive. This became known from a blog post for developers.

Apple has a Twitter account that will be dedicated to games from the App Store. It will be led by the editors of the store.

Eric Seufert, vice president of acquisition and user engagement at Rovio, explained exactly how Apple creates prices in the App Store, and why this system needs to be improved.

The App Store does not accept applications whose ads contain mentions of other platforms. This is reported by the resource Pocketgamer.biz , referring to their own data.

Kushal Dave, senior director of the technical department at Forsquare, believes that it’s time for Apple to change its policy regarding application verification. In its current form, it harms users.

The App Store in the UK has started to feature IAP in a shareware game.

Once a week, Apple selects the best game in the App Store. It becomes free for the next seven days. This time, Dark Echo, a horror puzzle game from the Canadian studio RAC7 Games, has been announced as such a game.

Apple has increased the size limit of downloaded games and apps from 2GB to 4GB. This happened for the first time since the launch of the App Store.

The App Store will soon be overflowing with “zombie apps” that don’t have a chance to reach the consumer – that’s what a new study from the Adjust mobile analytics agency predicts.

The joint revenue of App Store developers for 2014 amounted to a record $10 billion, – reports Develop-online.

The original version of the popular Papers Please game for iPad did not get into the App Store: the management considered that the images of the human body in the game did not meet the requirements of the store.

Apple announced that the annual Christmas holidays, as usual, will last from December 22 to December 29 inclusive.

The success of the Farm Heroes Saga title on Facebook prompted King to port it to iOS and Android. Now users can enjoy another “royal game” on mobile devices.