Zynga’s hybrid zCloud lets it get rid of two out of every three servers
Social game maker Zynga has shifted 80 percent of its game traffic to its own private data center servers, known as the zCloud, the company revealed yesterday...
MXP4 and Mobile Roadie take social music games to mobile devices (exclusive)
MXP4 and Mobile Roadie have partnered to take social music games to mobile devices. Under the partnership, MXP4’s Bopler Games social music games will...
Prince of Persia creator returns to games with remake of Karateka
After a stint in film, Jordan Mechner, a legendary game developer who created The Prince of Persia blockbuster video game series, is coming back...
Zynga teams up with Slingo to publish Bingo-slot-machine hybrid game on Facebook
Zynga has teamed up with cross-media gaming firm Slingo Inc. to create a new version of the casual game Slingo on Facebook. Slingo is...
Competitive RPG Components
Competitive RPGs take a few different forms. The newer variant is Defense of the Ancients, which is characterized by picking from a pool of characters and leveling it up over the course of a single round.
AMD pumps extreme performance into mid-range computers with 1-gigahertz Cape Verde graphics chips
Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out new graphics chips today that will bring screaming performance to the mid-range of the gamer PC market. The...
Looking beyond Facebook, Zynga hits 15M daily mobile game users
Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus said the social game company now has more than 15 million daily active users for its mobile games, compared...
Zynga’s quarterly report by the numbers
Zynga announced its first-ever quarterly reported as a public company today. Here are the relevant numbers: Q4 GAAP net loss: $435.0 million loss vs....
Zynga beats earnings estimates for its first-ever quarterly report as a public company
Social game maker Zynga reported a modest profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report today. The non-GAAP earnings per share were five...
Brazilian social gaming firm Vostu lays off staff
Brazilian social gaming firm Vostu confirmed that it has laid off an unspecified number of employees. The company confirmed the layoffs but declined to say...