Zynga prepares launch of expansion game FarmVille English Countryside
In one of its most important moves as a young company, Zynga is announcing today that it will launch a follow-up expansion to its...
How the Angry Birds deal could lead to mobile gaming nirvana
The $42 million investment in Angry Birds creator Rovio could be a watershed event for mobile games. The deal shows that at least one...
Week in review: A bigger display for the iPhone 5?
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories that VentureBeat published in the last seven days: iPhone...
FarmVille 2? Why Zynga needs to start making sequels, fast
[Peter Yared is the vice president of apps at Webtrends, which acquired Transpond, a social-apps developer he founded.] Do your best impersonation of a...
Do women play more games than men?
Women now play games more than men, according to a report by mobile app analytics provider Flurry. At least that’s true in the realm...
CityVille maker Zynga rumored to be raising $250M round at $7B valuation
Social game maker Zynga is reportedly talking to investors about raising a new $250 million round of funding that values the company at $7 – $9...
Richard Garriott: My plan to beat FarmVille and CityVille (video)
Richard Garriott is known as a video-game pioneer, an undersea diver and an astronaut. Now he wants to outdo Zynga, the creator of FarmVille...
Zynga’s CityVille grows to 100 million users in 43 days
Zynga keeps making history with CityVille, the fastest-growing game of all time. Today, the Facebook game broke another record as it reached 100 million...
Zynga’s CityVille becomes the biggest-ever app on Facebook
Who would have thought that a simple city simulation would become the biggest-ever app on Facebook, eclipsing FarmVille? Zynga‘s CityVille game crossed 84.2 million...
FarmVille co-creator working on stealthy startup BetterWorks
Is your job about to get a lot more addictive? Maybe — Sizhao Yang, one of the original team members behind insanely popular Facebook...