This was the inevitable outcome Google dreaded: Thanks to an antitrust case it lost to Epic Games, the company was forced to open the Play Store to certified, third-party app stores. The first of ...

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Akshay Bhalla was the former game guides editor for Screen Rant and the technology editor at MensXP. He has previously written about smartphones, apps, streaming, gadgets and games for print, digital, ...

Forcing Google to distribute third-party app stores in Google Play was one of several remedies imposed by Judge James Donato after Epic emerged victorious in 2023. The remedies also included lowering ...

Android users in the United States can now find and download third-party app stores directly from within Google Play for the first time — but every app those stores surface will still install through ...

Minecraft's new update is getting a lot of praise for adding a simple, long-awaited feature: Players can now sit. This game has been around for 20 years and players can create beautiful homes, deep ...

Microsoft added 30 new titles to its Xbox Play Anywhere program in the first week of July 2026, pushing the cross-platform ownership library past 2,350 supported games — a milestone that lands 21 days ...

The first addition spells out what many users have long suspected but Google never quite confirmed in writing. System services, the background processes responsible for keeping certified Android ...

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Android’s whole pitch has always been openness. You can sideload apps, get APKs from the web, and even switch to third-party app stores — Google doesn’t stop you from doing any of that (for now, at ...