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The World is Drawing a Lot Less of Something
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...Facebook + NBA Jam = …Bubble Safari?
Tuesday, May 8, 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...Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell
Wednesday, April 18, 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...East Coast Game Conference Lists Conferrers
Tuesday, March 27, 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...RockYou Expands Team and Announces New Key Hires
Thursday, February 10, 2011
RockYou, a TriplePoint client, just announced new key hires this week. Katrina Osio joined RockYou’s executive team as SVP of Marketing and John Yoo was appointed as Creative Director for an unannounced game from RockYou’s Redwood City studio. The company’s new leaders are planning to assist in driving RockYou’s goals to expand their portfolio of [...]
Continue reading...Help Your Family in FrontierVille’s “Aunt List” Quests
Thursday, September 30, 2010
A new series of quests has appeared in FrontierVille for some users. We’re assuming that these missions will pop for all users over time, as Zynga likes to roll new features out over time, rather than all at once to maintain stability within such a large player user-base (if we find that the missions are [...]
Continue reading...BREAKING: Build A Super Combine in FarmVille – Harvest, Plow, and Plant in One Click!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
In the official FarmVille podcast from the second week of September, we were given a small teaser letting us know that something called a Super Combine would be coming to the game in the future. Very few details were known about the item then, but now the Super Combine has launched to the world, and [...]
Continue reading...User Appreciation Month Brings Inventory Search, New Cottage Items to YoVille
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Not to let User Appreciation Month go out without a bang, Zynga has added a greatly anticipated feature to YoVille in the form of Inventory Searching. In addition, more English Cottage items are available in the game’s store, along with two new fall-themed collectible items. Find Exactly What You Want With Inventory Searching! Two of [...]
Continue reading...Complete FrontierVille Quests to Earn Items in FarmVille, Cafe World
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
In an effort to grow the 30+ million user family that is known as FrontierVille, Zynga is offering users a chance to earn new items in other Zynga games, like Cafe World and FarmVille, for playing FrontierVille. For the Cafe World cross-promotion, we see a quest called “Homestead Cafe Part 1.” This quest asks you [...]
Continue reading...Dublin Challenge Mission Chapter 2 Now Open in Mafia Wars
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Last week, Zynga launched a new challenge mission in Mafia Wars entitled Challenge Mission: Dublin – Rob the National Bank. This week, Chapter 2 of the mission has been released, but in order to access it, you will first have to complete Chapter 1 (check out our coverage of Chapter 1 by clicking on this [...]
Continue reading...Make Some French Fries, Send A Jack-in-the-Box – FrontierVille Updates!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
In addition to unleashing a large new system of Badges in the game, Zynga has been hard at work adding other new features to FrontierVille over the past few days. The first comes in the form of an entirely new quest that introduces a new food item, and the other is in the introduction of [...]
Continue reading...Send More School Supplies for Haiti, New German Decorations – FarmVille Updates!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Last week, we brought you the news of Zynga’s latest fundraising attempt to help Haiti, this time asking users to send school supplies to one another in the hopes of crossing the 400 million sent mark, triggering a large donation on Zynga’s part of $100,000. That 400 million barrier has come and gone, but the [...]
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