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In midst of employee theft lawsuit, Kixeye CEO takes a blast at Zynga

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga sued former CityVille general manager Alan Patmore after he left the company to work for social gaming rival Kixeye. Zynga alleges that Patmore (pictured below) took 763 confidential files from Zynga that contained game designs from teams around the company. Today, a judge in the case ordered Patmore to preserve any evidence as the case heads to trial.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.