TechCrunch, together with the analytical company aveden, tried to figure out how much the mechanism for ranking applications has changed in the new version of Apple’s mobile OS.

Developers from the Best Apps Market presented the original search engine for games on the Android platform. It selects suitable applications based on the specific desires of the user. 

Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, said at an internal corporate meeting in Taiwan that Windows 8 will be released raw.

Warner Bros. Film Company I entrusted the development of as many as two game adaptations of Peter Jackson’s future trilogy “The Hobbit” to the creators of Kingdoms of Camelot.

Pixle studio has created two useful and uncomplicated tools for mobile developers that allow you to determine the optimal ratio of the screen with a picture on it without the presence of the device itself.

There has been no news from the Finnish Jolla Mobile team for many weeks. And so, as they say, they are back. Jussi Hurmola, executive director of Jolla, said in an interview with Gigaom that the company will announce its first device before the end of this year. 

Another game news. Again about quests, again about classics. Revolution Software company, led by its permanent head Charles Cecil, has announced its intention to develop a sequel to the cult cyberpunk adventure Beneath a Steel Sky. The game will be released on iOS, Android and PC. 

As part of the Tokyo Game Show, which ended recently, Gameloft announced the fourth part of Modern Combat – Zero Hour.

The cult adventure game The Last Express, which tells about the misadventures of the American doctor Robert Cat on the trans-European express on the eve of the First World War, will appear on the iOS platform on September 27.

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.