The Japanese giant of the social mobile games industry GREE has made another step in the development of Western markets. The company acquired a studio from San Francisco – App Ant Studios.

The new project of the Finnish team threatens to become the most original development in its history. Rovio this time decided not to “wisely” copy the achievements of other studios, but to create a completely original game mechanics.

Igor Matsanyuk and Alexander Vashchenko, ex-heads of the gaming division Mail.ru , we have registered a company Narr8, which will write book series for tablets. 

Yesterday it was exactly one year since DragonVale has been sitting in the top ten American iPhone games at the box office. What is its secret, the British from PocketGamer decided to figure out.

Despite numerous problems, Zynga continues to buy up assets of interest to it. This time, the “victim” was the California studio A Bit Lucky, which released two sims on Facebook: Lucky Train and Lucky Space. 

On the eve of the launch of the new platform, on October 23, the Windows 8 Summit partner conference will be held in Moscow, aimed at business audiences, entrepreneurs, startups and professional developers.

Apparently, the announcement of the next, already the fourth smartphone from the top line of Samsung GALAXY S will take place at the end of February next year. 

The author of the comic book “Spider-Man” is developing a mobile game about saving the Earth from an alien threat.

On the eve of the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has announced competitions for application developers. The best applications will be demonstrated by Steve Ballmer at one of the major Microsoft conferences.

Flash GAMM Kyiv 2012, a conference on the development of mobile, social and, of course, flash games, will be held in Kiev from December 8-9. 6waves, Adobe, Marmelade, Unity and many others have already announced their participation in it. 

By the official release of Windows 8, which will be available on both PCs and tablets, there will be about 3,000 programs in its app store. 

Last Friday it became known that Nokia’s Lumia 920 and Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2 will appear on U.S. shelves on the same day – October 21. According to Examiner journalists, these gadgets may well compete with Apple’s creation. 

According to Meg Whitman, CEO and president of Hewlett-Packard (HP), the company plans to return to the smartphone market.

The most interesting articles and materials from App2Top last week: Thumbstar talks about South America, Tag Games gives advice to young developers, Apple disappoints the public with a new iPhone, and iOS 6 threatens to change the mobile industry market a lot.  

The executive director of Microsoft hinted that you should not wait for a cheap tablet based on Windows 8. 

Square Enix has released a shareware card battler Guardian Cross for iOS. Good news for the company’s fans, since most of its mobile products are paid. 

According to the 9to5mac resource, Google released the J2ObjC translator yesterday, converting code written for Java to Objective-C. 

According to Digitimes Research, the total shipments of 7 and 8.9-inch Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablets by the end of 2012 will amount to 5 million.

On September 19, the final version of iOS 6 will be available for download. There are quite a lot of key changes, not counting the design: updated search, rejection of UDID, improved Siri, the appearance of the Passbook application, new maps. But for mobile developers, the main innovation will certainly be the deep integration of iOS 6 with Facebook.