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A group called The Best YoVille Hackers took credit for stealing digital goods from less than 1,000 players of the popular game. The hackers leveraged a number of security issues to gain access to the accounts of others.
Zynga representatives are confident that the vulnerabilities have been addressed. They reassured... |
8 May 2012
04:26 GMT |
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The former co-founder of the EA Tiburon studio says that he chose to move to social game company Zynga because he was where gaming was heading in the near future. John Schappert, who is now a COO at Zynga, told Develop that, “When I was at Electronic Arts I worked very closely with the group that had casual, m... |
7 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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A current Zynga leader who also has experience working with major publishers and hardware developers believes that the cause for the on-going decline of the traditional video game industry can be found in the inability of major companies to adapt to the major changes in the market, from the rise of mobiles to the int... |
4 May 2012
19:31 GMT |
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The Zynga-made social video games continue to be important for the success of social platform Facebook, accounting for about 15 percent of the company’s revenue.
The figure is linked to both virtual goods that are sold by Zynga, of which Facebook gets a cut, and to the advertising that the company pays for to attrac... |
25 April 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Social games developer Zynga has plans to become similar to Google when it comes to brand recognition and to continue growing its community of players.
Speaking at the USA Today, CEO Forum Mark Pinkus, the leader of the company, has stated, “If you play our games, if you give us 15 minutes a day, I’m hop... |
25 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Social game developer Zynga might be ready to announce a direct sequel to the FarmVille game that has powered much of its initial success.
Superannuation has managed to find a copywriter working at Zynga with a CV that states he “contributed concepts and copy for several new business presentations, including t... |
17 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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A start-up in San Francisco believes that the current generation of social games does not live up to their own name and has announced a “holy war” against those titles who lack quality and offer closed experiences rather than helping players discover new social connections.
Jeff Hyman, who is the chief e... |
27 March 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Brian Reynolds, who is currently the Chief Game Designer working at social game developer Zynga, has stated that the next generation of home consoles can benefit from the addition of real or virtual keyboards.Speaking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz the veteran developer stated, “I’m sure they&rsqu... |
26 March 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Zynga has been very successful in delivering bite-sized gaming experiences for mobile device users and for social platform Facebook and it seems that the company now has plans to create technology that allows it to move its games on all platforms, including home consoles.
Speaking to GigaOM, Mark Pincus, who is the ... |
26 March 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Despite the meteoric rise of social gaming, the new genre is not a threat for the traditional gaming concepts on the PC and home consoles.
Mark Pincus, who is the chief executive officer at Zynga, stated, “Our research shows that nearly 70% of people who are playing social games are also watching television. O... |
26 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Zynga has confirmed the rumors that it bought OMGPOP, makers of the hit wonder Draw Something. The iOS and Android app has been a huge hit and has hit some 30 million users in just six weeks after launch, faster than anything before it.
It's currently the top app in most countries and, remarkably, it's als... |
22 March 2012
10:24 GMT |
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Zynga made quite an announcement, though hardly a surprising one, last week when it said that it was introducing Zynga.com not only as a launchpad for its own games, but also as a platform for other developers. Zynga said the site would go live soon and indeed it has, you can now go to Zynga.com, provide your Facebo... |
6 March 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Zynga has announced that it is ready to fly solo, albeit not too far from the nest, thanks to its brand new Zynga.com platform. Zynga.com will be home to some of the company's most popular games, which will still be available on other platforms, social networks and so on, but, crucially, it will also house third... |
2 March 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Analysis firm Wedbush Morgan has suggested that the social games oriented company Zynga will be able to create more successful titles in the coming year and continue to attract gamers and increase revenue.
Recently, Zynga has reported better than expected financial results, although compensation paid to employees af... |
16 February 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Social game developer Zynga has announced better than expected financial reports for its first quarter as a publicly traded company, saying that for the three months that ended on December 31 of last year it has managed to get a revenue of 311 million dollars (236.12 million Euro), slightly above the expectations of ... |
15 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Totally unexpected for most, Zynga shares dropped 12.52% the day following its 2011 Q4 results were made public. Even if the company recorded growth across the board in major site indicators, it still recorded a net loss in the financial column.On February 14th, before the aforementioned Q4 announcement, Zynga stock ... |
15 February 2012
12:54 GMT |
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Zynga and Facebook have had a special deal for a few years now, that's not much of a secret. In fact, parts of the deal have leaked over time and some details were known, even if they weren't official. What was clear was that Zynga enjoyed preferential treatment on the Facebook platform, one that no other d... |
9 February 2012
09:31 GMT |
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The success of social gaming developer and publisher Zynga has long been linked to the Facebook platform, but until now it was unclear how much the social network itself depended on gaming for its revenue streams. Official information delivered by Facebook shows that during 2011 Zynga alone was responsible for the c... |
3 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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After accusations the new Zynga Bingo has been copied from a template offered by that Buffalo Studio in its release, Bingo Blitz, the leader of the company, has stated that Zynga does not copy ideas from other developers but tries to take concepts that are already known and perfect them. Mark Pincus, the chief execu... |
1 February 2012
21:51 GMT |
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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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Social gaming and indie hits have been present during 2011 but at least one analyst believes that they will be even bigger trends this year, with Facebook probably losing some social titles while the indie community might face a split.Billy Pidgeon, who is one of the analysts looking at the video game industry or M2 ... |
4 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Google is continuing to make friends with Zynga and it seems to be paying off, though it's not exactly clear for which of the two companies. Whatever the case, Zynga is now debuting its popular Poker game on Google TV, of all places.Poker is Zynga's first ever game and it continues to be popular. It was als... |
9 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The leading executives of one of the biggest publishers in the world of video games has said that the social games market is complicated and that the best proof is the limited performance metrics offered by Zynga, the biggest player in the field.Strauss Zelnick, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Take Two, stated,... |
1 December 2011
10:29 GMT |
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A newcomer to the social games space believes that despite the domination of companies like Zynga there are still huge opportunities for new developers to make an impact on the market as long as they use mechanics taken from more traditional genres.Frederic Descamps, one of the co-founders of A Bit Lucky, told Gamasu... |
28 November 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Perhaps surprising no one, Zynga's latest *Ville game, CastleVille is turning out to be the company's fastest growing yet and, in fact, the fastest growing game on Facebook in history.It debuted on November 15 and it gained several million daily active users within days. In less than a week after launch, it... |
26 November 2011
05:38 GMT |
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A new study conducted by Information Solutions Group and commissioned by video game maker PopCap has shown that 118.5 million people are now playing social games at least once during each week, which is an increase of 71 percent when compared to the level seen during 2010.The study is called the PopCap Social Gaming ... |
15 November 2011
17:31 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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In a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission social gaming company Zynga has announced that for the second quarter of the year it has obtained revenue of just over 306 million dollars (221 million Euro), which is about 80 percent more than during the same period of last year.The problem is that the com... |
7 November 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Zynga might be one of the most successful video game companies in existence at the moment but that does mean that it's ready to get complacent and at an event in San Francisco the company has announced that it will launch something called Zynga Direct, previously known as Project Z, a new online community that w... |
12 October 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Zynga has big plans, already being the biggest player, by far, in social gaming, but it’s got its sights set on much more. Project Z, its own, stand-alone gaming social network is a big part of that, but it's going to take games to fill it. Luckily, Zynga has this covered as well.
At its Unleashed event, wher... |
12 October 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Zynga has made plenty of announcements at its Unleashed event, it had plenty of new games and made its first foray into mobile gaming, but the big strategic move is Project Z which is, in a way, a stand-alone social network tied to Zynga's games. But it's based on Facebook. Stick with up on this one, it mak... |
12 October 2011
06:01 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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Social gaming is one of the biggest trends in the industry at the moment but at least one leading analyst believes that they will soon have to evolve in order to keep players engaged in the long term and continue to get increased revenue.Speaking to IndustryGamers Jesse Divnich, who is an analyst watching the video g... |
7 October 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Zynga has announced that it's bringing its most popular game to date, CityVille, over to Google+. The game will be dubbed CityVille+ on the Google platform, but should otherwise be identical with the one currently topping usage charts on Facebook. Google+ debuted a games section less than a couple of months ago... |
26 September 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Zynga, the extremely successful social gaming company, has confirmed that it will soon release Mafia Wars 2, the sequel to one of its older titles, complete with 3D graphics and a variety of new adventures for players.
Zynga made a name for itself with hugely addictive casual titles like FarmVille or CityVille, bu... |
21 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Seeing as how games have become an incremental part of the Facebook experience, the social network's director of platform partnerships, Ethan Beard, highlights that gaming will actually drive the service forward in the next couple of years.
Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, but much of... |
31 August 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Google has made the inevitable announcement, Google+ is getting a Games section. There have been plenty or rumors about this and the feature was pretty much a given, but Google has only now made it official.It's rolling out the Games section of Google+ to all users gradually, but it may be a few days, at least, ... |
12 August 2011
03:38 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's path to the top of the social gaming companies pile may have been a bit controversial, but now that it's there it's not moving over too easily. The company is suing a Brazilian social gaming studio, Vostu, for copying pretty much all of its most popular games.
The fact that Vostu was more th... |
4 August 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Facebook has recently emerged as being on the most important video game platforms in the last few years and companies like Zynga have managed to make fortunes delivering experiences to gamers who are also interested in social interaction.
And now one executive at the company says that in many ways Facebook is like... |
28 July 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Zynga has updated its Securities and Exchange Commission filing with a lot of details on its investors and its deal with Facebook. The deal is interesting since it's anything but standard. Of course, as the biggest developer on the Facebook platform, it's a given that it gets a custom deal. Zynga is heavil... |
19 July 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Zynga, the biggest social gaming company around with a massive audience on Facebook, is preparing to go public and has been making all of the necessary paper work.
It has now made an addendum to its S1 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in which it reveals all of its minority investors and the... |
19 July 2011
05:15 GMT |
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After yesterday's surprising news that Electronic Arts has acquired Bejeweled and Plants versus Zombies developer PopCap, new rumors have appeared, saying that Facebook giant Zynga also made a bid for the casual games developer.
PopCap made a name for itself by releasing dozens of high-quality and extremely a... |
14 July 2011
12:31 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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Zynga is a social gaming powerhouse. As it heads towards an IPO, the company has hundreds of millions of users, many of them playing every day. All of these users pose a major problem, you need a lot of computing power to serve them all.
While Zynga games use the Facebook Platform, they need to run on Zynga'... |
5 July 2011
05:03 GMT |
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The conventional wisdom among video game publishers is that a successful intellectual property should be used as much as possible, with the aim of launching a new game linked to it every year, if possible, in order to keep gamers hooked on a particular game world.
Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the in... |
4 July 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has stated that an online gamer needs to create 3 dollars worth of value during one hour of play in order to keep himself entertained and engaged with the title he is playing.
The figure has been offered by Bing Gordon, who is a partner at the firm, and he says... |
4 July 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Video game company Zynga has announced that more than 148 million unique players are engaged with its title as of March 31, according to information that was made public as part of its application for an Initial Public Offering.AppData, a measurement service that targets all Facebook applications, currently shows tha... |
4 July 2011
09:55 GMT |
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Social game developer Zynga is rumored to be preparing an Initial Public Offering on the stock exchange that will be worth between 15 and 20 billion dollars, with investment bank Goldman Sachs set to handle the financial matters.
Sources that are familiar with the IPO efforts from Zynga have told financial-oriente... |
29 June 2011
13:31 GMT |
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