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An analysis firm has calculated that social gaming firm Zynga is spending no less than 150 dollars (116.4 Euro) in order to bring in one new player for its titles, even though the overall average contribution from one is smaller than that over time.Arvind Bhatia, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for... |
23 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Other gaming companies, well at lest Angry Birds creator Rovio, are making a killing selling anything else besides games so why not Zynga, who's games are enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people.That seems to be the idea behind a set of FarmVille-inspired and seasonally themed plush toys hitting Best Buy store... |
14 November 2011
12:41 GMT |
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After a major financial publication claimed that the leadership at social game developer Zynga asked employees to return shares given to them in the early days of the company or face threats and dismissal, the leader of the company launched a counterattack, saying that those who claim foul play did not understand the... |
14 November 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Despite the fact that recycling operations can keep our planet clean and our streets waste-free, people aren't always interested in improving their eco-conscious attitude mainly because there's no fun in it.
If they are able to count their recycled items and notice their progress while comparing their r... |
12 November 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Hollywood is not exactly known for its originality. Between remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels and titles based on anything from classic books to toy brands, movies that have to stand on their own are far and few between. So, should a movie based on FarmVille surprise anyone at this point?
Surprising or not, it m... |
10 October 2011
05:21 GMT |
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It seems that at least one of the Republican candidates that are currently fighting for the nomination of the GOP for the 2012 presidential elections is interested in bringing politics to Farmville, the most popular social game on the Facebook platform.Representative Michele Bachmann, who hails from Minnesota and has... |
27 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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With the clear trend in recent years towards 'casual gaming,' the name given to the (huge) market made up of people who would much rather play FarmVille than Call of Duty, two companies have come out, seemingly out of the blue, to dominate the two main areas where casual gaming has taken off, social network... |
11 August 2011
10:30 GMT |
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Zynga, the company behind massively successful Facebook games like FarmVille, CityVille or the more recent Empires & Allies, has highlighted its core gaming principles, ahead of its Initial Public Offering (IPO), during which it hopes to raise over $1 billion in funding.
Zynga took the world by storm in recent yea... |
5 July 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Al Gore is best known for having invented the Internet during the '80's (a statement which is not factually correct) but after tackling important subjects like climate change the former vice president and almost president of the United States of America is now talking about video games and about how they ca... |
21 June 2011
15:11 GMT |
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In what is definitely an out-of-the-ordinary partnership, social games publisher Zynga, owner of titles like FarmVille or CityVille, and famous pop singer Lady Gaga have announced the introduction of a big promotion scheme called GagaVille, complete with unique items for Zynga games and access to new songs and videos... |
11 May 2011
03:50 GMT |
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A new survey scam targeting FarmVille players is currently spreading on Facebook by luring people to surveys with promises of a limited edition Husky.According to Facecrooks, the spam message spread by the scam's victims reads: "Do you want to claim this Husky? [user] came across a Husky on their farm! This Husk... |
16 April 2011
07:44 GMT |
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Zynga has been one of the most successful companies when it comes to social based gaming in the last years, with some people putting the value of the company well above 10 billion dollars, and much of the success, representatives are saying, is because of how quickly the company can move. Speaking at the Game Develo... |
1 March 2011
08:02 GMT |
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A series of FarmVille-themed scams have targeted Facebook users recently by offering them rewards and prizes in the form of in-game cash or rare animals.One of the most recent ones advertises a so called "FarmVille Rewards Program" and produces spam messages that read "This rare Ptarmigan Willow needs a home, help hi... |
19 January 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Facebook scammers are taking advantage of FarmVille's popularity again to trick users into taking surveys by luring them with a news page for the game.For a lot of time, FarmVille was the most popular game on Facebook, and even though it has been overthrown by CityVille, it still has tens of millions of active p... |
13 January 2011
12:48 GMT |
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CityVille, Zynga's latest social gaming sensation is breaking record after record and is already the most popular Facebook app of all time. The game is now close to passing another milestone, becoming the first Facebook app to have over 100 million monthly active users. In fact, it may have already passed that s... |
10 January 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Zynga's new CityVille game, released for Facebook, has broken popularity records for the social network, reaching a jaw-dropping 84.2 million active monthly users, overtaking another Zynga title, FarmVille.
Zynga revealed CityVille little over a month ago, but the title has already broken Facebook's old ... |
5 January 2011
02:50 GMT |
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Barely a month after its launch, Zynga's latest game CityVille has become the most popular app on Facebook, surpassing the famous FarmVille. Close to 70 million people have played CityVille in the past 30 days, according to the latest numbers from AppData. Meanwhile, 'only' 57 million have played FarmV... |
28 December 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Sophos warn that a new survey scam quickly spreading on Facebook produces spam messages that promote an adoptable dancing snowman.The messages are sent from the victims' profiles and read "wow I just got a Free Dancing Snowman for my farm grab yours from [link]"The link... |
16 December 2010
10:44 GMT |
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Despite some claims that the social gaming world is somehow not seeing the kind of growth and numbers it once did, it looks like each Zynga launch is bigger than the previous. Zynga's latest game, CityVille - a name which, apparently, is meant to be taken seriously - has seen the kind of growth that puts the com... |
13 December 2010
10:02 GMT |
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Zynga, the company behind massively successful Facebook games like FarmVille, FrontierVille or Mafia Wars, is getting ready to launch a brand new game called CityVille, which will see Facebook members start their own cities and take care of them and their inhabitants.
Zynga is ready to expand its social gaming gra... |
18 November 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Several of Facebook's most popular applications, including the social game phenomenon which is FarmVille, are being accused of breaking the privacy rules of the social network by sending their users' personal information to ad companies.Facebook, even though it is the biggest social network in the world, is... |
19 October 2010
17:11 GMT |
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A new Facebook affiliate marketing scheme tricks users into spamming their friends and family by promissing them the opportunity to adopt a rare FarmVille cow. However, instead of receiving the virtual domestic animal, victims get the chance to buy useless stuff for the benefit of the scammers.With hundreds of millio... |
3 July 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Zynga is regarded as a social gaming powerhouse thanks to its huge audience and successful games like the ever-popular FarmVille. But, in proving that you don’t always need to innovate to win, all of its games so far have actually been based on ideas ‘borrowed’ from existing products. Not anymore, Z... |
9 June 2010
12:14 GMT |
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Zynga, the social-gaming powerhouse, has been going from strength to strength lately. Things weren’t looking so great for a while, but a long-term partnership with Facebook ensures that its games will continue to be available on the largest social network in the world. With that behind it, it’s time to lo... |
24 May 2010
07:57 GMT |
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One of the most interesting initiatives presented at the Game Developers Conference, which took place in San Francisco, has been that Apps for Healthy Kids program that the White House initiated, aiming to use videogames as a direct and powerful way of educating a young audience about the way they should eat and exer... |
15 March 2010
04:38 GMT |
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Ask any gamer what's the most popular game of all time and one answer you're not likely to get is Farmville. But, like it or not, Zynga's Farmville, which has been clogging our Facebook news feeds for months now, is by far the game played by the most people in history with the sole exception of, perhap... |
22 February 2010
05:02 GMT |
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One of the big stories of 2009, which is sure to also develop this year, is the rise of so-called social games, mostly played through Facebook. The biggest developer of such titles, Zynga, is currently saying that there are 235 million people playing its games at the moment, while the second placed player in the mark... |
19 February 2010
15:31 GMT |
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A Web security researcher has disclosed cross-site scripting weaknesses in the two most popular Facebook applications. He claims to have found similar flaws affecting other apps as well, including an SQL injection vulnerability in a Facebook-verified one.The self-confessed white hat hacker goes by the online handle o... |
3 September 2009
05:53 GMT |
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