How many idle games do you have clogging up your Draw Something queue? According to the app’s data on AppData (by way of Kotaku), I’d guess about a third of your games are sitting idle. In the last month, roughly 5 million players (about a third of its nearly 15 million users a month ago) have [...]
Continue reading...8. May 2012
Okay. So, Mark Turmell, the guy behind legendarily awesome sports-mayhem-game NBA Jam, just put together a Facebook game for Zynga. Everyone who predicted the game to have nothing to do with either sports or farming, but to instead be a new take on match-three bubble shooters, raise your hand. None of you? Well, me neither, but [...]
Continue reading...18. April 2012
The SNES was a young kid’s dream (in the early 90′s). Every game felt brand-spanking new, because it was. When video games first came along, “copycats” were neither a logical thing to consider, nor an option. Video games were casual. They were made for mainstream audiences. And back then, even the games that dared deal [...]
Continue reading...27. March 2012
Curious why you ought to go all the way to the East Coast to hear people tell you what they know about games? Well, maybe if we tell you that those people are from Zynga and BioWare, that would be adequate incentive. The organizers of ECGC (a TriplePoint client) have announced the keynote speakers for [...]
Continue reading...28. September 2010
In the world of the internet, it’s sometimes easy to forget about the services that power just about everything we do, but also the audience that can use them. Today, we’re going to discuss the CEO of PopCap Games calling out Zynga on its strategies, along with the deadline of the Indie Game Challenge coming [...]
Continue reading...25. September 2010
This past week, Zynga has been very busy in not only updating their games, but discussing growth in them as well as expanding with their latest acquisition. At the Oracle OpenWorld Conference, Cadir Lee, CTO at Zynga revealed some interesting statistics concerning Zynga’s growth along with server sizes, employee numbers and data transfer levels from [...]
Continue reading...25. September 2010
It’s Cafe World’s one year anniversary, and to help celebrate, Zynga is offering discounts on tons of items both inside the game and out, as well as offering an entirely new Catering Business mission that will have you working to earn (and keep) a series of limited edition recipes. Last but not least, a “one [...]
Continue reading...10. September 2010
“Free” is the operative word in Mafia Wars this week, as users are being given free items at every turn. There are two particular areas of interest where users can score some free loot. One is triggered by purchasing a Mafia Wars Game Card, while the other is achieved for simply clicking on a few [...]
Continue reading...10. September 2010
Earlier this year, Facebook and Zynga signed a five-year partnership that would see the developer’s games remaining on the social networking site throughout that period, and has now seen the developer transition to using Facebook Credits exclusively in the vast majority of their titles. As reported by our friends at Gamezebo, both Facebook and Zynga [...]
Continue reading...6. September 2010
Attention FrontierVille players! Are you looking for a way to earn a whole slew of free Horseshoes for doing little more than clicking a few buttons? You’re in luck, as Zynga has officially released the FrontierVille toolbar, as part of their ongoing Tool or Game Bar support for their most popular Facebook games. The FrontierVille [...]
Continue reading...4. September 2010
It appears as though the Camp Yo theme has finally come to an end in YoVille, as the game’s Furniture Store is now being stocked with items in a “New Romantic” theme. This theme looks to contains a lot of over-the-top, classical furniture, with bright and busy patterns and interesting lines. So far, only the [...]
Continue reading...1. September 2010
Just yesterday, we brought you the news that Playdom has brought Social City to the Android, and today we can add another Facebook title to that list. In other Facebook news, we see that Playdom has now passed CrowdStar in terms of overall user numbers. Happy Island Now Available on Android Back in early July, [...]
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9. May 2012
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