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A year ago, Facebook said that Zynga was responsible for a big chunk of its yearly revenue. Fast forward to the company’s most recent quarterly results, it’s obvious that Facebook doesn’t need Zynga as much as it did before. Lately, Zynga has been trying to distance itself from Facebook and to dim... |
15 May 2013
08:23 GMT |
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If you like Spain’s national bull-charging sport, you’ll love Zynga’s new “Running with Friends” game for iOS, where you run away from a stampede of bulls on the streets of Pamplona. In this free game for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, players dodge charging bulls, speeding cars, and flyi... |
10 May 2013
04:35 GMT |
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Farmville 2 remains Zynga’s biggest hit, as 8 million people play the game daily.
As the company isn’t doing too great financially as they try to distance themselves from Facebook, they seem to be in dire need of a new hit game, Business Insider notes.
Launched about six months ago, Farmville 2 is sti... |
9 May 2013
03:27 GMT |
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iOS developer Zynga Inc. has released Draw Something 2 Free, a brand new version of the popular drawing game enjoyed by over 100 million players around the world. Draw Something 2 is reimagined with all-new ways to draw and guess, and packs new sharing abilities, complete with a feed that friends can subscribe to in... |
26 April 2013
09:56 GMT |
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Zynga has announced that it will be launching the second Draw Something game in an effort to recover after steep revenues drop during the first quarter of 2013.
The company has been reorganizing and has been focusing on the four core game genres in the portfolio – casual, casino, mid-core and invest-and-expre... |
25 April 2013
06:09 GMT |
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Zynga has released a new IP on the iTunes App Store called War of the Fallen, a multiplayer card battle game where you must follow your Dreamling spirit guide Lexa as you collect cards, level up, and use them to crush your enemies. A classic card game, War of the Fallen has anything you'd want: from boss fights... |
15 April 2013
07:33 GMT |
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Much troubled developer Zynga believes that the tablets that many companies are currently launching are the best gaming platforms for the future and that they will replace the traditional PC and home console.
Steve Chiang, the president of game development at Zynga, tells GamesIndustry that, “Imagine FarmVille... |
19 March 2013
21:31 GMT |
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Zynga’s popular Draw Something game for mobile devices is about to get a sequel, the company recently confirmed.
Initially teased by TV host Ryan Seacrest, the game is likely to be launched soon on multiple mobile platforms, including Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
“I somehow convinced them (Zynga) to ... |
19 March 2013
06:14 GMT |
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Dan Porter, the leader of the Zynga studio based in New York, says that video game developers have been copying each other ever since the industry started and that his company is not to blame for the similarities between its titles and those of other developers.
In an open letter, the developer states, “Before... |
12 March 2013
21:41 GMT |
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Social network Facebook wants to become a better home for video games during 2013, which means attracting more ambitious titles like ChronoBlade and adding more titles that use traditional mechanics and features.
Sean Ryan, the leader of the game partnerships division at Facebook, is quoted by VG247 as saying, &ldqu... |
5 February 2013
12:11 GMT |
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Brian Reynolds, the former chief game designer of Zynga, says that he might set up his own development studio in the coming months in order to test a number of game ideas. The veteran game creator tells Venturebeat that he is interested in creating an environment where he can “experiment more than m... |
4 February 2013
17:19 GMT |
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Video game developer Brian Reynolds, best known for working alongside Sid Meier on the Civilization series, is leaving his chief game designer position at social game developer Zynga.
Gamasutra has independent confirmation of the news and says that the designer wants to leave the company in order to pursue other opp... |
30 January 2013
04:44 GMT |
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Security firm ESET has presented its analysis of a botnet called PokerAgent. Identified around one year ago, the threat was designed to steal payment information from Facebook users who play Zynga Poker, one of the most popular online poker games in the world.
PokerAgent was mainly active in Israel. In March 2012, i... |
29 January 2013
09:33 GMT |
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With more than 10 million downloads on Google Play Store, Zynga’s Words With Friends is one of the most popular game for Android devices. The latest version comes with a few improvements that do not change the overall gameplay experience, but extends support for more devices. According to Zynga, the updated W... |
18 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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Security researcher Rafay Baloch has identified cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection vulnerabilities on the “With Friends” website of social game developer Zynga, zyngawithfriends.com. Shortly after being notified, the company rushed to address the security holes. “The response and the fi... |
4 January 2013
05:59 GMT |
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Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has talked about free-to-play games and emphasized that companies behind social games, like Zynga, have done the free-to-play genre a great disservice because they were too eager to make players pay money for certain things.
Free-to-play games are becoming extremely popula... |
19 December 2012
03:06 GMT |
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It may be teaming up with Apple to buy a bunch of Kodak patents, but Google is still a big critic of the patent system and software patents in particular. In theory you can't patent an idea or a mathematical formula, yet most software patents are a little more than that. Google along with Facebook, Zynga, as we... |
10 December 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Games industry analyst Michael Pachter believes that Activision, the company behind the popular Call of Duty series, should certainly buy Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of huge franchises like Grand Theft Auto or BioShock, or even Zynga, the large social games developer.
Activision, part of the larger Activisio... |
7 December 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Zynga is trying to set up a real money gambling operation in the United States in order to generate more revenue as the popularity of its traditional social game franchises continues to decline.Apparently, the company is aiming to get up and running in Nevada and the application it has filled is ... |
6 December 2012
22:31 GMT |
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The development team at Zynga announces that it plans to close down its social game Mafia Wars 2 on December 30 of this year, shutting down the entire infrastructure linked to the title and encouraging players to switch to one of the other similar experiences that it is offering.
According to Games.com, all those in... |
4 December 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Zynga has just announced the immediate availability of its new arcade game for Android devices, Clay Jam. The new title is now up for free download on Google Play store.
However, even though this game is available for free and can be played without spending real money, Zynga states that players can buy extra clay vi... |
30 November 2012
11:02 GMT |
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A few years ago Zynga signed an exclusive deal with Facebook, something no other developer had or could get. Given that Facebook was making hundreds of millions of dollars from Zynga alone at the time, it made sense.
The contract was for a five-year period, during which Facebook got exclusivity on some Zynga games, ... |
30 November 2012
09:17 GMT |
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The amazingly popular “Words With Friends” is close to achieving the 50 million downloads milestone on Google Play store.
The game is even more popular on iOS platform, especially due to the fact it was initially launched on Apple’s mobile platform.
Zynga, creators of the game, have just released ... |
27 November 2012
06:46 GMT |
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Social game developer Kixeye has launched a countersuit against Zynga, the leader of the current field, linked to its anti-competitive practices, which are hurting the entire genre and lowing the company’s ability to compete.
GamesIndustry.biz is quoting the court documents that say the Kixeye wants to block Z... |
15 November 2012
20:21 GMT |
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One of the most popular Poker games for the iPhone, Poker by Zynga has received a new update that secures your chip stack in case of an Internet outage.
Zynga Poker lets you choose a 5 or 9-person poker table or jump right into a tournament against your friends and over 6 million others on a daily basis.
Such a big... |
1 November 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers have initiated an operation called “maZynga.” The campaign was launched shortly after the company revealed its plans to lay off around 5% of its workforce.
The hacktivists published a video statement to announce the start of the operation, but the clip was removed from YouTube... |
29 October 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Zynga may be going through a rough patch, but Facebook says gaming on the platform is at all-time high. In fact, while Farmville may have faded in popularity, there are now 251 million people playing games on Facebook, compared to 226 million last year. Granted, Facebook also added some 200 million more active users... |
26 October 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Peter Moore, the chief operations officer working at Electronic Arts, believes that despite the problems that Zynga is currently having, the video game market can still support social games, as long as they offer the audience a quality experience.
The executive tells Eurogamer that, “The overheating and overhy... |
25 October 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer at Facebook, says that Zynga is the main culprit in the fall of video game revenue that the social platform has recently seen. CVG is citing an earnings call that the executive has attended, during which he stated that he would like to see the gaming side of Facebook perf... |
25 October 2012
05:14 GMT |
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A new report states that 85 percent of those playing social games abandon them after their first session and never return to see how they have performed. The report, cited by Gamasutra, comes from Playnomics and was carried out from July to September of this year. It also shows that 95% of those who have started pl... |
19 October 2012
14:31 GMT |
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An analyst for J.P. Morgan has estimated that the actual real-world value of Zynga stock is smaller than that of the physical assets of the company, which is a bad sign for the overall health of the social game developer. Doug Anmuth believes that cash on hand, securities and the property that Zynga currently has ar... |
12 October 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Matt Wyndowe, who is the product manager linked to apps and games at Facebook, has announced that his company is interested in adding synchronous gameplay to the platform in order to expand the range of gaming experiences that can be offered on the social service.
Speaking to Gamasutra, the executive stated, “... |
9 October 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Zynga hasn't been doing great lately. It hasn't been doing great for quite a while now, since it went public. But it's getting worse, in its latest financial preview for the third-quarter, Zynga warns of lower than expected revenue and a huge write down for OMGPOP which it acquired earlier this year.
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5 October 2012
04:45 GMT |
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A new study from EEDAR reveals that women gamers are dominating the increasingly important mobile market and that most of them are interested in playing multiplayer and social-enabled titles.
The report shows that 60 percent of all mobile gamers are female and that 63% of those are interested in games which involve ... |
4 October 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The upcoming Total War: Rome 2 will not require an always-on Internet connection to be played but the developer at The Creative Assembly will require Steam to be used in order to cut down on the impact of piracy. James Russell, who is a lead designer working on the game, has told Eurogamer that, “It’s al... |
4 October 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Doctor Ian Bogost, who is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has suggested that the Zynga strategy of repackaging old titles and adding minimal improvements might not be a wrong one of the video game market when taking into account the inherent scarcity of very good titles.
Speaking to Gamasutra, Bo... |
3 October 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Mitch Lasky, a venture capitalist who has backed such video game projects as League of Legends and Journey, believes that the social platform Facebook is no longer seen as a way to make money by developer and publishers.
The venture capitalist has stated, “Facebook is still a viable platform for independent de... |
27 August 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts has repeated its claim that the lawsuit it has launched against social game behemoth Zynga over the similarities between The Sims Online and The Ville is also a way of standing up for all the other companies that have seen their own concepts copied.
Peter Moore, the chief operations officer... |
22 August 2012
15:21 GMT |
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One of the co-founders of one of the biggest publishers in the video game space has blamed Zynga for the bad reputation of the casual games genre and suggested that they could have tough times in the near future.
David Crane, who is one of the co-founders of Activision and has created Pitfall, has told Game Informe... |
13 August 2012
07:41 GMT |
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The lawsuit that publisher Electronic Arts has launched against social game creator Zynga over the copyright issues linked to The Sims Social and The Ville is not a clear win according to at least one major analysis firm that’s watching the video game industry.
The analysis firm Wedbush Morgan stated in a note... |
7 August 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Eric Goldman, who is a professor at the School of Law of the Santa Clara University, has offered his opinion on the copyright case that publisher Electronic Arts has launched against social game company Zynga over the similarities between The Sims Social and The Ville.
Goldman is a specialist in Internet and intelle... |
6 August 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has launched a copyright infringement suit against social game creator Zynga, stating that there are similarities that are more than coincidental between The Sims Social and The Ville.
Lucy Bradshaw, who is the leader of the Maxis studio inside Electronic Arts, told an internal c... |
6 August 2012
03:07 GMT |
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One of the most outspoken executives at publisher Electronic Arts has spoken about the problems at rival social game developer Zynga, comparing the company to a runner who is competing in an Olympic event and has hit a wall.
Peter Moore, who is the chief operations officer at Electronic Arts, has stated, “To u... |
3 August 2012
09:25 GMT |
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A video game analyst criticized the move that social game developer Zynga made to take video game development duties away from John Schappert, the chief operation officer of the game, and hand them over to David Ko, the leader of mobile development, and Steve Chiang, a vice president. Michael Pachter, who watches th... |
2 August 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has launched a new trailer for its social city building title, SimCity Social, which is now in beta stage, and the company could not resist taking a shot at CityVille, the successful release from Zynga.
The trailer is named “More City, Less Ville” and tries to emphasi... |
29 June 2012
09:43 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Atari has announced that it has plans to celebrate its 40th anniversary both by showing off the glorious history of the company and by getting fans a chance to win a number of interesting prizes.
A complex infographic created by Atari shows the important milestones in the history ... |
28 June 2012
10:28 GMT |
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Video game developer Zynga has announced that it is launching a new social multiplayer platform, called Zynga With Friends, and that its next major title will be called simply The Ville. The new Zynga platform will offer players a new unified lobby for all their games and their friends, accessible from any device vi... |
27 June 2012
07:43 GMT |
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Zynga has been trying to grow past its current limitations, i.e. being tied to Facebook. It ventured out onto new platforms, mobile, Google+ and so on, but figured it had to do its own thing if it ever wanted to be independent.
It's been working on that over at Zynga.com where users can play most of the compan... |
27 June 2012
05:50 GMT |
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The popular Words With Friends HD has been optimized for the new iPad’s Retina display and, thanks to a recent update, players can now enjoy the game in landscape mode, by rotating their Apple tablet. Developer Zynga has announced a bunch of interface enhancements for its popular Words With Friends HD that wil... |
26 June 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Facebook has been known for its social games and the tie-ins that big publishers tend to link to their core home console and PC franchises, but the leaders of the company are ready to see core titles launched on the social platform in the coming year.
Matt Wyndowe, who is the games product manager working at Faceboo... |
22 June 2012
08:07 GMT |
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