Zynga buys 1010 maker Gram Games for $250 million
Zynga has acquired 1010 mobile game maker Gram Games for $250 million in cash plus other considerations. Frank Gibeau, CEO of San Francisco-based Zynga,...
Zynga teams up with IGDA to champion female game developers
Zynga has teamed up with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) to support women in games. Zynga will be a platinum sponsor for the...
Zynga closes 2017 with strong poker and Words With Friends 2 revenues
Zynga is on a roll as it hit its financial targets for the past three quarters, including the fourth ended December 31. The company reported...
World Series of Poker: How Playtika’s Montreal team has kept the mobile game on top
Social casino games have become a $4.2 billion business, and Israel-based Playtika has about a quarter of the market. The company, which was acquired...
Zynga lets you show off your CSR 2 race cars with augmented reality
CSR Racing 2 has been popular as a mobile game because it offers car racing fans the fantasy of collecting and owning their own...
Zynga CEO: How the company is staying on the comeback trail
Zynga hit its peak in stock price and revenues a while ago. But the San Francisco company is still a force in mobile and...
How Zynga plans to grow through acquisitions, new games, and live ops
Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau wants to make sure that the company’s strong performance for the third quarter that ended September 30 isn’t a fluke. The...
Zynga pays $100 million for Peak Games’ casual card game studio
Zynga has acquired the mobile card game studio of Turkey’s Peak Games for $100 million in cash. The move is one of the biggest...
Zynga picks Unity Technologies to provide ads across its games
In what could trigger a shake-up in the mobile ad business, Zynga has chosen Unity Technologies as its exclusive mobile game advertising partner. Zynga...
USC film school taps ex-THQ exec Danny Bilson to run games division
The University of Southern California has always had a stellar reputation as being one of the best game design schools in the nation, and...