Apple has changed the rules regarding pre-orders in the App Store. Now developers will be able to offer users to download applications 180 days before the release.The company announced this in its blog for developers.

Microsoft has found a way to circumvent Apple’s restrictions on cloud gaming. xCloud streaming service will appear on iOS next year as a browser application, bypassing the App Store.

The game Sky: Children of the Light has been downloaded over 50 million times on mobile devices since its release. This is an adventure project from the creators of Journey and Flower.thatgamecompany studio notes that word of mouth among Android users, as well as the release of new seasons and in-game events helped it achieve such indicators.

Amazon has found a way to circumvent the rules and the App Store commission. The company has released the Luna cloud gaming service in the form of PWA, a progressive web application. This means that the service will not appear in the store at all — a browser is enough for it to work.

The third highest-grossing genre in the American App Store is strategy. They account for 13% of the revenue of the regional store. However, more than half of the revenue collected by iOS strategies in the States goes to China. The analytical company GameRefinery told about this in its latest report.

Last Friday, August 28, Apple officially deleted the Epic Games developer account from its mobile platform. The main consequence: the company can no longer submit new games, and users download Fortnite and other company projects, even if they were previously installed. Unreal Engine was not affected by the removal.

Employees of the security company Snyk accused the Chinese Mintegral of spying on users and advertising fraud. The suspicious SDK was used in 1,200 applications on Apple devices, which were downloaded up to 300 million times every month.

The confrontation between Apple and Epic Games is still gaining momentum, and some iPhone owners have already seen this as an opportunity to make money. Prices for Apple smartphones with Fortnite installed on them reach tens of thousands of dollars.

Epic Games got an ally in the conflict with Apple: Microsoft sided with the creators of Fortnite. The Xbox chapter requires Epic to retain access to Unreal Engine support tools in iOS and Mac.

The war between Epic Games and Apple has entered a new phase. This time, Apple took retaliatory actions. She threatened to delete Epic accounts and block her access to the tools with which the company provides support for Unreal Engine in iOS and Mac.

The story of the confrontation between Apple and Epic Games unfolds at lightning speed. First, in the iOS version of Fortnite, it becomes possible to pay for content directly to developers. After that, Apple immediately removes Fortnite from the App Store. Epic Games immediately sues Apple.

Fortnite can no longer be played on iOS. Apple accused Epic Games of violating the rules and removed its game from the App Store.

A bad day for iOS developers. Many mobile applications on this platform did not work today. It’s all the fault of a bug in the Facebook SDK. It led to constant “crashes” of those programs in which the SDK was installed.

Starting in July, Apple will begin to exclude games from the Chinese App Store that have not previously been officially licensed in China.

June 30th is approaching. After this date, Western games running in the Chinese App Store without local ratification will be outlawed. How Apple will deal with them is still unclear. But there are other details about the current situation.

Apple continues to please with news on the eve of WWDC 2020. Yesterday, without any announcements or warnings, she updated the App Store Connect, the manager for working with iOS applications.

The coronavirus forced Apple to make allowances for iOS developers. They were given more time to migrate applications to the current iOS 13 SDK.

Last year, iPhone owners spent an average of $54 on mobile games. 99% of the money was earned by fritupley titles.

Mobile games in the Star Wars universe have earned more than $1 billion over the past six years. The lion’s share of the amount fell on the Electronic Arts title.