Halfbrick is promoting its new educational game for kids Fruit Ninja: Math Master with the help of the recently launched “family” section of Google Play. They told the resource about their experience Pocketgamer.biz .

Over the year, the number of downloads from Google Play has grown 1.3 times, and the platform’s revenue has increased 1.4 times, App Annie reports in its latest research.

The search giant has added a new feature to its mobile app store – pre-registration. The first game with its support was Terminator Genisys: Revolution from Glu Mobile.

A new collection of apps called Games You Can Feel has appeared on Google Play. It presents games in which the player’s actions will be accompanied by vibrations of varying intensity.

Google has introduced a new program called Designed for Families. With its help, developers will be able to promote “family-friendly” games and applications.

The mobile software development company Apus Group conducted a global study of the Google Play store. There are an average of 37 apps per user, and if you live in Japan, at least 5 of them are games.

As part of the GDC conference that began yesterday in San Francisco, tinyBuild told how many new games on iOS and Android appeared per day last year.

Google is launching a test version of advertising on Google Play. It will allow developers to promote their proposals directly through the store. This is reported in the official blog of the company.

Google, following Facebook and Apple, sums up the results of the year. The company has published a list of the most downloaded games and apps on Google Play.

To increase revenue from mobile applications, Google is going to give developers the opportunity to create lightweight versions of their products, writes The Information.

Now the app purchased on Google Play can be returned within 2 hours.

While everyone is waiting for a new revolution from Apple, Google together with Philips are going to release TVs based on Android 4.4 this summer. 

Last week, Flappy Bird took first place among the free apps of the App Store and Google Play. The simplicity of the game’s graphics is compensated by a rather complex gameplay, which probably caused its popularity.

Supercell and King have captured the free and cash tops of Google Play, and in the paid one you can find far more than one game two years (or more) ago – this and much more in the weekly review of the American Google Play games market.