Indie developers have repeatedly talked about the negative experience of working with PlayStation. Yesterday it turned out that the feature in the PS Store costs $ 25 thousand. After that, Sony was hit by a new wave of criticism. Developers began to point out many other problems of the company — including lack of support, poor game findability, and, as a result, low sales of indie games.

Google is ready to change PC gaming. The company has officially announced a streaming service Project Stream, which will allow you to play high-performance projects directly in the Chrome browser.

With the support of the Russian publisher Destiny.Games, an MMO platform is currently being developed on The Abyss blockchain. The project is already making progress. In May, he raised $15 million for development as part of a DAICO campaign (an ICO analogue). We talked with Zhanna Goranskaya, Director of platform Development, about what The Abyss will be like.

Valve has officially introduced a streaming platform Steam.tv Currently, the platform broadcasts only the games of the annual 2018 Dota 2 International Championship, which is taking place these days in Vancouver.

Blockchain technology can replace existing solutions in the field of DRM (technical means for copyright protection), according to the founder of Interplay and inXile Entertainment studios, Brian Fargo.

The Hitbox Team studio will develop the first title for the interactive Twitch Extensions format, which allows viewers of the game broadcast on Twitch to interact with the stream.

In August, the G2A marketplace launched a program to work with developers and publishers, within which they were able to independently sell keys to their games. In conversation with App2Top.ru G2A business development specialist Dave Traeger admitted that in the future the platform also plans to promote the best projects.

During a press conference dedicated to the purchase of Oculus VR, Mark Zuckerberg said that last week the number of users of the mobile version of the social network reached 1 billion people. 

Since February 19, complaints of domestic mobile application developers about blocking their iOS accounts and deleting applications have started to appear on the Runet. 

According to Mixpanel, which launched a special dashboard that tracks downloads of the new version of Apple’s mobile OS, more than 25% of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users switched to iOS 7 during the day.

We waited. After 21.00, the seventh version of the iOS mobile operating system became available for download.

The other day Microsoft announced its successes in the mobile field. According to the company, there are as many as 9 million transactions with the Windows Phone Store per day in the world.

An unexpected twist. The management of the Finnish company Jolla has solved the problem of the lack of applications for its own system in an interesting way. They just made Sailfish compatible with Google’s OS.

New axis, new icons. The first information appeared on the web about what exactly designers should pay attention to when developing icons for iOS 7.

Today, the mobile market is dominated by iOS and Android. Apple has a monopoly on the first, Google dictates the rules for the second. Vendors lack room for maneuver – at least one more successful OS.

Judging by sales for the fourth quarter of 2012, the iPhone remains the main smartphone only in two regions – America and Japan. In all other countries, gadgets based on Google’s OS win by a significant margin.