Google Corporation will strengthen the protection of children. She said that in the coming months she will start blocking targeted advertising for minors. The restrictions do not end there. Google will also secure YouTube, its search engine, app store and much more for teenagers.

The investment division of MY.GAMES and Google have launched a short-term business accelerator Game Drive 2021 for mobile developers. The companies promised to bring the best projects to foreign markets. The event fund may amount to $30 million.

Roskomnadzor will temporarily block Atomic Heart trailers on YouTube, in which the song “Music connected us” sounds. This decision was made by the Moscow City Court as part of the proceedings between Andrey Lityagin (founder of the Mirage group) and Google.

The conflict between Epic Games and Google continues to develop. Fortnite developers have updated their lawsuit against the corporation, adding several new proofs of Google’s monopolistic behavior.

Google intends to pay developers money depending on the number of gaming sessions in the paid cloud service Stadia Pro. However, not everyone in the industry has positively received this model. Some fear that it will force studios to create stretched games and artificially increase user engagement.The discussion arose against the background of the new Google Stadia strategy.

Google wants to attract more developers to Stadia. To do this, the company introduces a new commission system. Now the authors of the new games will pay Google only 15% of the first $3 million in revenue received on its cloud platform. However, there were some nuances.This became known at the Google for Games Developer summit.

In Africa, as in most other regions, the pandemic and lockdowns provoked an explosive growth of mobile gaming. Compared to the first quarter of last year, local users have become more active in downloading games and making more in-app purchases. This is reported by AppsFlyer in a joint report with Google.Note: The study covers the period from the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021 (ended March 31).

Google has announced Play as you download, a feature that will allow you to play games without waiting for their final download from Google Play. The innovation will work on devices with Android 12.

Google was sued. The authorities of Washington and 36 US states accused the corporation of monopolizing Google Play. They are concerned that Google allegedly does not allow other stores on Android and pays competitors not to make their own app stores.

Google has allowed Android developers to register in a program that reduces the commission for a portion of the amount earned on Google Play to 15%. At the same time, she told about the conditions of participation.

Android developers have been notified of the imminent changes to the Google Play rules. They relate to the advertising identifier and resemble Apple‘s IDFA policy.

At the beginning of the year, Google Stadia began to have big problems after the closure of internal development studios and the departure of Jade Raymond. Despite this, the company assures that the platform feels great and continues to develop. Among the arguments are regular replenishment of the library of games and cooperation with indie studios. However, Google still doesn’t say anything about the size of the service’s audience.About the current state of Stadia in…

Not only the Russian authorities can tighten the screws. Already this June, Google is introducing a “tax on bloggers.” We are talking about rules that will oblige all owners of YouTube channels to make deductions in favor of the United States from the income received from American users. This will also affect Russians.

Today it is difficult to satisfy the personnel hunger of domestic gaming companies. Their global success requires significant scaling, which is impossible if only specialists from game dev are involved.

In early February, Google decided to close the internal development studios of Stadia, but their employees did not know anything about the company’s intentions. Just a few days before, the management praised them for their progress and promised to share their plans for 2021.This was reported by Kotaku with reference to four sources familiar with the situation.

Another Google project was under attack. The corporation announced that it was discontinuing game development for Stadia and closing internal studios. The platform itself will continue to work for now, but without exclusives.

While Apple is investing in virtual reality, Google is shutting down VR services. The company has announced that it will no longer officially support the Tilt Brush 3D drawing application. From now on, its source can be found on GitHub.

Google has slightly updated the icons in the Play Store. Thanks to the innovation, users can see whether an application is falling or growing in the charts.Now you can see an arrow under the position of the application or game in the chart.

This week, the Google Play Pass service, which allows you to play premium games when paying for a subscription, will be available in Russia. For our country, the subscription price will be 149 rubles per month.However, according to the official Google Play website, Play Pass is already available with us (although the editors failed to launch it: