Zynga

Nothing on the market, big or small, indie or mega-published, can’t seem to tickle the guys’ fancy. Any suggestions? Read More »

In an effort to boost Xbox’s social gaming output, former Xbox boss Don Mattrick, who’s now the CEO of Zynga, tried buying the social gaming giant. Read More »

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UK-based station Channel 4 has announced a new gameshow called “Draw It!” which has been created in collaboration with Draw Something owners Zynga. The show will adapt the format of the app and will see two teams battling for cash prizes. Read More »

Hacker group Anonymous has turned its eyes to Zynga, social game creator. “Operation maZYNGA” has began, as stated on their website. On November 5th, the Guy Fawkes day, “they key to the data files” of Zynga executives’ confidential documents will be released, as they say. Also, they’re threatening to release all the games found on the company’s servers. Anonymous is ... Read More »

John Schappert, well-respected games industry executive who has held senior positions at major firms including Microsoft and EA, has resigned from embattled social games company Zynga. Read More »

Just before Zynga saw its stock collapse two days ago, the firm’s top executives, including its founder, dumped 43 million shares, cashing in pretty big as others who had no knowledge of the company’s poor financial state watch their investments go down the drain. Read More »

Zynga’s stock suddenly dropped a whopping 41 percent in after hours trading today. The company’s stock is now valued at $2.99 per share, the lowest its ever been. Read More »

As Zynga preps to launch Dream Heights on the App Store worldwide (the social game powerhouse is currently testing the title on the Canadian App Store), indie developer NimbleBit has spoken up about the game’s close resemblance to their own Tiny Tower. Nimblebit employee Ian Marsh took to Twitter yesterday, posting this infographic (posted in full below) comparing the two ... Read More »

If you have a FaceBook account, then of course you’re familiar with the popular social-network game FarmVille. There are 57.6 million users playing it, and six out of the ten most popular games on FB are owned by Zynga. Who’s Zynga? It’s the developer who owns FarmVille, and SharePost has just valued the firm at $5.51 billion, greater than EA ... Read More »