The case of copying Triple Town will be continued. So it was decided in an American court. According to Gamasutra, the judge refused 6waves Lolapps to terminate the lawsuit against them initiated by the SpryFox studio.

Today, the company presented official data on the results of iPhone 5 sales and the number of downloads of the updated iOS 6.

The authors of Plants vs. Zombie, Bejeweled and Zuma have confirmed the liquidation of one of their largest studios. They assure that EA has nothing to do with it. 

Last Friday, sales of the iPhone 5 started in eight countries. Officially, the novelty will be available to Russians in December. But impatient Russian users have been able to purchase it at exorbitant prices since last Friday.

Not everyone was happy about the App Store changes in the sixth version of iOS 6. According to Chris Newman, executive director of Lightwood Games, for independent companies, updates in the Apple app store are a real disaster. 

“Kupertinovtsy” demand to increase the size of the fine for patent infringement by the Korean giant Samsung by $ 707 million” 

The day before yesterday, the main Disney puzzle game Where’s My Water? – exactly one year has passed. In honor of this event, the company presented an infographic on the project, and also said that the number of installations of the game exceeded the 100 million mark.

The most interesting articles and materials of App2Top last week: DragonVale dragon farm has been sitting in the top ten grossing USA for a year now, HTC showed its fashionable smartphones on WP8, Zynga lost 12 directors in a couple of months, and the author of Pocket Legends told how to make money on gamers if you make an f2p game.

Rovio has signed an agreement with Egmont children’s publishing house to release books under the Angry Birds brand.

According to the Superannuation resource, the Quantic Dream studio, known for the thriller Heavy Rain, is in search of a programmer for iOS and Android.

The mascot of the largest European game publisher, Ubisoft, “ran” to mobile iOS devices in the recently released game Rayman Jungle Run.

Colleagues have thrown a cool screenshot – well illustrates the desire of Android users to pay for software :)

The German company Xyologic has opened access to the beta version of its mobile search technology to iOS users. So now it covers not only Google Play, but also the App Store. Any user can use the new search, as well as get recommendations from the company itself, having familiarized themselves with the original charts and the showcase of Xyologic-promoted applications. 

Just 24 hours after the release, the new version of Apple’s operating system was installed on 15% of the company’s devices. A year ago, iOS 5 reached a comparable figure (20%) only in 5 days from the date of publication. 

Qualcomm, which manufactures Snapdragon processors, has announced two competitions for developers.  Their total prize fund is 370 thousand dollars.

The Japanese company DeNA has announced the conclusion of an agreement with the Japanese studio gloops. Within its framework, the studio is going to launch as many as 11 mobile projects on the Mobage platform in 2013.

Pricing for IAP in mobile games is a sore point for developers. Why one item should cost a buck, and the other should be offered for free, how to make users want to pay themselves, and how not to scare them away from the game with high prices – these and many other questions were answered in her article on the Pocket Gamer portal by the creator of Pocket Legends mobile MMO Zoya Street from…

Those who closely follow Zynga may have noticed that recently the company’s executives have been leaving one by one. The flight became massive after it became known that the financial results of the second quarter were lower than expected.