VKontakte developers to release a desktop application to access games from the social network

16 October 2017
At the conference VK High Score for game developers VKontakte, held on October 12 this year in Moscow, representatives of the social network told about the next product, which the company will officially launch in the next few months.It is about the launch of a special application that will facilitate access to your favorite games VKontakte from computers running Windows and macOS. Maxim Babichev, the head of the social network's gaming platform, told this. According to him, the company's development strategy will be aimed at cross-platform projects working both on web and mobile gadgets. It is reported that the new desktop application from VKontakte will allow not only to browse through the catalog of games from the social network, but also to download them on the computer and play without opening a page in the social network in the browser. In addition, the program will be available products Mail.Ru Group, which owns the social network, as Warface and "Project Armata". Another interesting feature of the application will be the ability to read the news feed of the gaming communities to which the user chooses to subscribe. Unfortunately, there is no information about the release date of the application. It is only known that the still unnamed project will be launched at the end of this year, or in early 2018.