For him, the company interviewed over 14 thousand people around the world. We have selected a few facts from the report.

Back on August 2, Google updated the payment rules of its mobile store. Starting from this date, developers can add third-party payment systems to applications for users from Russia.

Everyone from South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia can play mobile titles on Windows computers. Now they have over 50 games available, including Summoners War, Cookie Run: Kingdom and Last Fortress: Underground.

The innovation was noticed by blogger Bryant Chappel. He managed to launch games through Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, Nvidia GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming by simply typing the title name into the Google search engine.

South Korean authorities suspect that Google, Apple and One Store Co. have violated a law that prohibits owners of mobile stores from imposing their payment systems on developers. Now companies face a fine of 2% of the annual turnover of stores.

The Digital Markets Act, or DSA, has forced Google to review its mobile store policy. The company said that starting from July 19, developers will be free to use third-party payment systems and pay a lower commission on Google Play. But only in non-gaming applications and for users from the European Economic Area.

The European Commission has approved two bills to combat the monopolies of large platform holders. They will also affect Google and Apple, which will have to comply with the new set of rules.

The South Korean organization CUCS, which defends consumer rights, has written a statement to the Seoul police against three top Google managers. Allegedly, they allowed the company to violate the local law on telecommunications business.

On May 11, Google held a conference for developers I/O 2022, at which it presented, among other things, new features for its mobile store.

The ban began to take effect yesterday, May 5. In an official blog, Google stated that, if desired, developers providing “important services” can make their applications completely free.

Yesterday Epic Games started a new confrontation with Google. This time at the center of the scandal is the Bandcamp music platform, which the company bought in early March.

Two months ago, Google said that it was going to eventually abandon the GAID advertising identifier. Instead, she intends to deploy the Privacy Sandbox system on Android, which should increase the protection of users’ personal data.

A series of restrictions from Google continues. Russian companies and private users can no longer create new accounts in AdSense, AdMob, Google Advertising Manager and Google Cloud.

Google has decided to suspend the sale of contextual advertising in Russia. The ban will affect all the company’s services, including search, YouTube and partner networks.This was reported on March 4 by Reuters with reference to the official statement of Google.

In the summer, MY.GAMES and Google launched a business accelerator for mobile developers Game Drive 2.0. Now the companies have summed up the results. One of the finalists of the program was the Novosibirsk studio Game Maverick — it will receive an investment of 15 million rubles.

The Google advertising identifier (aka GAID) will soon be a thing of the past. The company followed Apple’s path and introduced a new system that is designed to increase user security and limit the collection of personal data on Android.This decision was announced by the vice president of Google for product management, security and privacy of Android Anthony Chavez (Anthony Chavez) in the official blog of the company.

Android developers will soon have another option on how to attract users to their applications. Google has announced plans to add the “Offers” tab to the Google Play navigation bar — among other things, it will display discounts on in-game items.

Mobile games from Google Play Games have officially appeared on PC. Google has announced the launch of beta testing of the desktop version of its service. But there were some restrictions — while residents of only three countries can play Android titles on Windows.

Korean Krafton demanded to remove Free Fire from mobile stores. She is unhappy with the excessive similarity of this battle royale and her PUBG game. The company has already filed a lawsuit, in which it also mentioned Apple and Google, for not preventing the distribution of the “fake”.