Tag Archives: Zynga

Zynga is one of the most well known video game publishers in the mobile space, having released classics such as Farmville, Words With Friends and more. Their repertoire within the mobile space must have piqued the interest of Take-Two Interactive as they have acquired the company for $12.7 Billion. Making …

It looks like Echtra Games now has new ownership, as an acquisition agreement has been reached with Zynga. The San-Francisco based studio is best known for bringing back the Torchlight IP with Torchlight 3, which exited Early Access in 2020.  While Echtra has developed one PC and console game, Zynga …

With a net income of more than  $120 million in the red, Farmville creator Zynga is not in the strong financial position it once was. Perhaps because of that it's hired on a new chief financial officer (CFO). Drawing from a similar well as it has in the past, Zynga …

Once upon a time Facebook gaming kingpin Zynga, has had a changing of the guard at the very top of its organisation. Two time CEO and founder, Marc Pincus is gone again, this time being replaced by ex-executive vice president at EA Games, Frank Gibeau, who has sat on the …

Zynga has fallen far from its peak when share prices were good and tens of millions of people played its games every day via Facebook. It still makes a reasonable living from its various freemium titles, but things aren't what they once were. Which is perhaps why the higher ups …

When Don Mattrick made a pig's ear of the Xbox One unveiling, suggesting that users without decent internet should just buy an Xbox 360 among other things, no one thought he would be hired on by another large gaming company, but that's exactly what happened. Just a short while after …

Miniclip, one of the world's most popular online flash-game portals, is purportedly still trying to find a buyer for itself after potential deals with both Zynga and Disney fell through. Now it's hoping to court the likes of Candy Crush Saga maker King, according to rumours, by hiring on some …

Having a breakout application like Candy Crush Saga is a great way to earn yourself a lot of money very quickly, even if only a small per centage of the user base actually pays anything. Buy as we saw with Zynga in the past, it's not easy to continue the …

In case you hadn't heard, Cliff Blezinski, one of the minds behind the development of Unreal Tournament and the Gears of War franchise at Epic Games, has a new gig. He's opened his own studio, Boss Key Productions and he's making a free to play, PC arena shooter, set to …

Zynga, the Facebook game maker with an ex-CEO that doesn't really like contemporary gaming, and a current one that said if your internet sucks, get an Xbox 360, has announced the acquisition of another developer, taking on all of its staff and facilities. This time around its CSR Racing developer …

Zynga yesterday released it's quarterly report for earnings, the first one since ex-Xbox One launch man Don Mattrick jointed the company as CEO and while profits and revenue are down on this period last year, it wasn't quite as bad as expected. According to Bloomberg estimates, while it was predicted …

CEO of Facebook game maker Zynga, Mark Pincus, has taken the interesting move to tell a group of investors at a Garage Geeks event in Tel Aviv, that he doesn't have a favourite game at the moment, because he's pretty much bored with gaming in general. What's would get him excited …

Original Draw Something developer OMGPOP, was bought by Zynga last year for a cool $180 million (£117.36 million) and then closed down this year after the world and his dog forgot about the pictionary style game and its sequel. The team didn't go down without a fight though. They even …

Zynga, the well known casual game creator have filed a lawsuit against the company behind ‘Bang With Friends'. They said it was a breach of trademark against their ‘with friends' software. Zynga said in a complaint which was filed with the Federal District Court in San Francisco “This is a …

While Zynga higher ups might have been hoping that the staff members it fired out of the blue just a few days ago, would ride off into the game development sunset, that's not how it works when there's an internet to please. One disgruntled ex-employee has conducted a Reddit AMA, …

Remember when Zynga bought up the developers of hugely popular fad game, Draw Something, last year? Remember when it signed the cheque for $200 million? Remember when Zynga went on to shut down that same company and fired almost everyone involved, just over a year later? That just happened. We …

Zynga has been bleeding staff and studios all over the world since its height, early on last year. Since then, it's consolidated and consolidated some more and recently, it's felt the need to do so again, cutting another 520 staff from its roster, in what's being described as a “restructuring …

The first financial reports for Zynga's 2013 financial year are in and while income is on the rise, the number of people actually playing the games made by the Facebook publisher have continued to fall, with a 21 per cent drop off in active players since the same time in …

EA and Maxis have spoken up about the impending closure of three games featured on social network Facebook: Sims Social, Simcity Social and Pet Society. All of these games will no longer be available as of 14th June this year. But should this really surprise anyone? Free to play games …

Zynga's general manager at the New York studio, has officially left the company in what has been described as a “mutual decision,” with Zynga's current VP of mobile development, Sean Bueroi, taking over the studio until a replacement has been found. Porter was initially picked up by Zynga as part …

Zynga has announced that three of the six planned game releases for the end of 2013 will no longer be continuing development. This follows on from staff layoffs, earnings and a heavy hitting lawsuit from EA that are collectively piling on the pressure for a company that looks like it has tough …

Following on from its announcement earlier in the year that it planned to end the lives of 13 of its games, Zynga has begun that process, closing down 11 of them, including: Petville, Mafia Wars 2, Vampire Wars, ForestVille and Fishville among others. Don't worry though, Zynga has recommendations for …

Zynga has confirmed that it will be shutting down its Japanese studio, in an effort to curb the less profitable parts of its business. Despite quickly becoming a billion dollar company, in the past year it has seen layoffs, lawsuits and player reductions that have really hit home that all …

Anonymous has targeted Facebook game maker Zynga, in its latest hacktivist action, announcing its intention to release reams of internal information about a possible layoff of nearly 1,000 more employees. The collective also plans to let loose the developer's entire game catalogue for free, unless it goes back on its …

Zynga announced yesterday that a further 5 per cent of its staff – totalling 120 people – had been let go and the Boston Studio had been officially closed. The Chicago office is also being downsized and there are suggestions that both the UK and Japan based branches of the …