Speech by Grigory Ivanov (Greg Ivanov) from Google at the White Nights 2014 conference.

The search giant Google reports that the Android gaming hub will soon receive as many as 18 “new things”.

Failure stories rarely end well, but Green Throttle Games, which released a gamepad for Android games a year ago, was lucky. Today it became known that Google acquired it (or rather what was left of it). 

The developers of the device demonstrated what it will be possible to play with virtual reality glasses. 

The search giant has announced the launch of an open physics library for two-dimensional projects (2D physics library), a plugin for Unity and new game categories on Google Play.

At the last Vas Forum conference, Dmitry Martynov from Google shared the secrets of successful applications.

Every day, 5,000 new user companies join the Google Apps platform. However, the update of the Apps Marketplace for Business shows that Google does not want to stop there.

According to IDC, global shipments of tablet devices increased to 47.6 million in the third quarter of 2013. This indicates a 7% increase compared to the figures of the previous quarter and 36% compared to the figures for the same quarter last year.  And again, the bulk of deliveries are accounted for by Android tablets.

Just a couple of days after EA was accused of receiving a reward from Apple for delaying the release of the Android version of Plans vs. Zombies 2, the company launched the game on the Google mobile platform.

According to Google Ventures partner and Android co-founder Rich Miner, there is no such problem as fragmentation for the average user.

One of the most interesting rumors at the Develop developer conference in Brighton concerned Unity. They say her management was offered to sell the company for $750 million.

According to our colleagues from Techcrunch, Facebook is testing a new mobile game distribution system that will bring direct profit to the social network.

Following Ouya, a console from Google itself may appear on the market. Wall Street Journal sources are sure of this.

Last Friday, May 17, Google talked about the work of the Google Play search engine, as well as how developers can improve the visibility of their programs with its help.

Speaking at the Google I/O 2013 conference, Google Play product manager Ibrahim Elbuchikhi gave a lot of interesting figures and facts regarding the monetization of mobile applications in the official Android store.