Google has confirmed that it is going to move Android games to Windows soon. She has officially announced the desktop version of the Google Play Games app. The project is scheduled for release in 2022.

Google has begun to summarize the results of the year. She published a list of games that she considered the best in the outgoing 2021. Pokémon UNITE, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Bird Alone and about twenty other titles got into it.

Google together with Newzoo have prepared a large study of the global video game market. This year, the industry will slow down its growth slightly, but in 2023 its turnover will exceed the $200 billion mark for the first time. Analysts also talked about key trends and how the audience of video games in the world is changing.The study is based on Newzoo data and responses from 16,900 respondents from four main regions:

Epic Games is one of the first gaming companies to announce its ambitions to create a metaverse. The other day, its head, Tim Sweeney, noted that these plans were partly the reason for his confrontation with Apple and Google.

Epic Games has made a new accusation against Google. She said that in 2018, the corporation was seriously concerned about the developer’s plans to release Fortnite on Android bypassing Google Play. So much so that she created a working group that was supposed to prevent this.

A few days ago, a number of mobile publishers accused Apple of secretly buying Google ads for selected applications. The company allegedly does this to increase its revenue from subscriptions. Apple claims that all such campaigns were coordinated with the developers and do not violate the rules of the App Store.What happened?

South Korea has become the first country for which Google has specifically changed the rules of its app store. Now developers will be able to freely use third-party payment systems, while giving the company 4% less. This is necessary to comply with the so-called “Law against Google“.Google announced this last week in its blog.

Google talked about the latest changes in its store. As part of the Android Developer Summit, the company shared details about new tools for improving security, opportunities for monetization of applications and improving their quality. Google also announced the launch of a program for certification of marketers.

Google continues to modernize its commission policy on Google Play. She announced that she would reduce the commission from 30% to 15% for all applications with subscriptions — immediately from the first day of use.

Last year, Epic Games filed a lawsuit not only against Apple, but also against Google. However, only now Google has decided to put forward counter-claims to the developer. The company said that the creators of Fortnite knowingly violated the agreement with Google Play, and demanded to pay her compensation.

Two weeks ago, South Korea banned Apple and Google from imposing their payment systems on mobile developers. But it seems that companies still do not follow this requirement. The Korean authorities are ready to wait until mid—October – they have given so much time to prepare a plan to comply with the new law.

In the first half of the year, the App Store has lost a lot of weight. The Pixalate platform found that about 221 thousand applications were missing from the store*. Almost two-thirds of them violated Apple‘s privacy rules.

Google could have violated labor laws in dozens of countries. The media found out that the corporation for at least two years consciously paid freelance employees less than those who were on the staff. To hide this, she distorted quarterly financial reports.

Google has summed up the results of the Indie Games Festival 2021. This year the winners were 10 games from independent developers. Three for Europe, Korea and Japan, plus one best game according to users.

South Korea has become the first country to legislatively limit the power of Apple and Google over mobile app stores. According to analysts, this could set a precedent.

Not only American officials are fighting the monopoly of Google and Apple in mobile stores. The South Korean authorities are preparing to adopt a law that will allow developers to use third-party payment systems and not pay a commission for transactions inside applications.

Google has announced changes to the app rating system in the Play Store. Starting in November, the estimates will be linked to the region. This means that users from Russia will not be able to see reviews and ratings from the USA and vice versa. The company wants the system to become more useful and convenient for developers.Google announced this in the official blog for Android developers.

Details from the trial of Epic Games and Apple continue to emerge. This time they are about Google. It turned out that the company was thinking about buying Fortnite authors with the help of Tencent. She also paid smartphone manufacturers to abandon third-party marketplaces and gave at least “hundreds of millions of dollars” to popular developers so that they would not leave the Play Store.

The US has prepared a bill that could seriously reshape the business model of mobile stores. If accepted, it will allow developers to add third-party payment systems to applications and tell users about discounts outside of stores. The initiative has already been approved by Epic Games.