There are two newcomers in the American box office top of iPhone games at once: Temple Run: Brave and Zynga Slots. In the top of gaming applications for iPad, there were also some updates: a fresh game from Wizards of the Coast – Magic 2013 showed itself well. But as for Google Play, everything is the same here.

The authors of Tiny Village and Tiny Pets from TinyCo claim that the Android platform has already caught up with iOS in a number of important “payment” indicators. 

Yesterday in San Francisco, Zynga held a press conference called Zynga Unleashed 2012, at which a number of announcements were made.  The greatest interest was aroused by the announcement of the creation of a new social network Zynga With Friends, through which the company intends to unite users of its products on several platforms – iOS, Android and Facebook.

Apple has changed the search algorithm in the App Store. Read about the changes and the first victims of the innovation below. 

The other day, appMobi, which supplies tools and services for creating HTML5-based applications, shared interesting statistics regarding this platform.

In the American App Store in the iPhone version, the most popular game is Flow Free, developed and published by just one person. The best growth for the week was shown by the bdsm clone Temple Run: Brave.

Developers from Remedy Entertainment claim that their Death Rally, being a paid application, earns up to $350 thousand every month just by being in the top 200 of the App Store.

Many companies are now saying that the iPad is a replacement for large consoles. Gameloft clearly explains why.

The German game studio Wooga, which develops mobile and social projects for Facebook, spoke about its experience with HTML5, at the same time opening the sources for Pocket Island.

Just a few weeks after the announcement of Xbox SmartGlass, a cloud platform that supports iOS, Android and Windows Phone, Microsoft has published an SDK for developers.

The Chinese publisher spoke about his own achievements in the field of distribution of mobile projects.

iOS 6 fully supports, as Indian journalists found out, only iPhone 4S. All other mobile devices of the company were functionally deprived of one or another function. So, apparently, fragmentation on this platform is becoming an increasingly urgent problem with each new Apple release. 

At the WWDC 2012 event, Apple employees shared impressive indicators of the iOS operating system. 

Catapult King, a new game from Chillingo, topped the American top paid iPad apps on the third day after its release, displacing such old-timers as Angry Birds Space HD and Where’s My Water? 

The revenues of Russian operators from the sale of mobile content for the first quarter of 2012 increased significantly compared to the same period of 2011.

In the near future, the Google corporation platform may not only give way to the conditional palm of iOS, but also lose the mobile device market. 

Analysts from comScore shared the latest data on the American market of mobile phones, smartphones and operating systems. It turned out that Apple is doing the best right now, but Android may soon have to tighten its belt. 

Peter Molyneux, the former head of Lionhead and Bullfrog, the creator and ideologue of games such as Fable, Black& White and Dungeon Keeper, announced a mobile experimental application Curiosity.

For the game adaptation of Brave, a new cartoon from Pixar, Disney has contracted the developers of one of the most successful games for iOS – Imangi Studios, the creators of Temple Run.