The zCloud revisited: lessons from Zynga’s public-private cloud experience
Recently, we were proud to publicly unveil the private cloud computing infrastructure that we use to scale our social games — infrastructure that we...
Amazon App Store snags an Android exclusive with CrowdStar’s Top Girl mobile game
CrowdStar‘s Top Girl mobile game is one of the top-grossing titles on Apple’s iOS platform. Now it is moving over to Google’s Android platform...
Zynga IPO set for Dec. 15 at $10B valuation?
Social game maker Zynga is reportedly planning to go public on Dec. 15 at a valuation of $10 billion, according to a report by...
Take Two CEO attacks Zynga for “sketchy” metrics and biz model
Zynga‘s tens of millions of regular players and burgeoning revenues have many investors excited about its fast approaching Initial Public Offering, but Take Two...
Tiny Speck “unlaunches” its Glitch game, taking it back to beta to rework game play
Back in September, game startup Tiny Speck launched an unusual online game called Glitch. Today, the company said it is “unlaunching” the game. The...
Video chat service Rounds continues to focus on entertainment with the addition of nine new games
Rounds, described as the world’s only “communitainment” platform, combining video chat and social apps into a single experience, today announced that nine new games...
Former Marvel CEO invests in kid’s superhero MMO Herotopia
Herotainment, developer of popular children’s massively multiplayer browser game Herotopia, has announced a new round of investment from Cuneo & Co., headed by former Marvel...
Sojo Studios’ WeTopia social game lets players do good in the real world
Sojo Studios is announcing its first online social game, WeTopia, which is designed to be part of a series of games where players can...
Kiip and GameSalad integrate ad-based rewards directly into game development platform
Kiip and GameSalad are announcing a partnership today that could ensure lots of new mobile games will have ad-based rewards baked into them from...
Zynga employees give Mark Pincus a 46 percent approval rating
The claws are out for Mark Pincus, chief executive of social game maker Zynga, today. First, the New York Times published a negative story...