With the regulators looming, Google Play now shows a price range for in-app purchases
Google Play is also exposing the addresses of developers that sell in-app microtransactions.
Sega's Crazy Taxi: City Rush rolls over its mobile game rivals in August downloads
Old stalwart Sega manages to beat Dong Nguyen's Swing Copters to the top spot in late-summer downloads.
Google recognizes that its plan for gaming domination hinges on how people pay
Google doesn't have years of credit card information like iTunes, so it's investing in new ways to pay.
Amazon's Fire Phone — even with 'dynamic perspective' — is pretty junky for gaming
The phone's marquee new feature doesn't really work, and the Amazon Appstore is not the best platform for people looking for the latest mobile games.
Announcing our next trio of speakers for GamesBeat 2014: a store guy, a broadcaster, and a reporter
Bob Meese of Google Play, Malathi Nayak of Reuters, and Jonathan Simpson-Bint of Twitch will join us on Sept. 15-16.
iOS still dominates Google Play for making money as China and Japan turn up the spending
Google Play is actually outpacing iOS in terms of downloads, but people open up their wallets more for Apple.
Google Play growing, growing, growing: Downloads up 1.5x, revenue up 2.5x
Games now generate 90 percent of Play revenue, and 98 percent of that revenue comes from freemium apps, according to a new report from mobile analytics company App Annie.
Epic Games launches Tappy Chicken to show off cross-platform Unreal Engine 4
A single artist with no programming knowledge built the game as a showcase for Unreal Engine 4.
The Google Play Store saw a boost in game revenues after creating better categories
Distimo says that it's easier to find games and easier for titles to get discovered thanks to fine-grained categories.
How Google can fix the broken app store for indie-game devs — and leapfrog Apple in the process
However, the new requirement doesn’t really address a core, underlying cause for the practice: broken app discovery. Fortunately for Google, it has a number of means to quickly gain the edge on discovery over Apple. In the process, the search giant can greatly help the independent developer community.