John Riccitiello’s legacy: EA survives, but its hit points are dangerously low
It's easy to take shots at Riccitiello's record, but his successes and failures were complex.
New departure from Zynga: Omgpop’s chief revenue officer (exclusive)
Zynga has lost former Omgpop chief revenue officer Wilson Kriegel.
Zynga alleges EA’s chief executive proposed an anti-competitive ‘no hire’ pact or he would ‘rain hell’
Zynga alleges EA tried to get it to collude on not hiring each others' employees.
Executive turnover continues: Zynga loses its chief marketing officer Jeff Karp
Zynga has suffered a number of executive departures recently. The latest is Zynga's chief marketing officer, Jeff Karp.
Kixeye steals a general manager from Zynga, rescuing him from the ‘dark side’
Kixeye recruits a general manager away from Zynga so he can make "real" games.
The DeanBeat: What’s next for Zynga as its ‘happily ever after’ fairy tale ends?
Zynga had a bad quarter, but this does not mean that social gaming is completely and utterly collapsing.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Blizzard hacked, Nividia earnings rise, and more bad news for Zynga
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Zynga COO John Schappert steps down
Beset by charges of copyright infringement and insider trading, the bad news keeps rolling in for Zynga as the social game company confirms the departure of chief operating office John Schappert.
Zynga stuck in real-life BadNewsVille: more lawsuits, COO demoted
Zynga’s bad day on July 25 when the company reported horrible earnings turned into a bad week when investors found out that insiders cashed out...
SeeYouInCourtVille: law firms investigating Zynga for possible insider trading
Three months before releasing a quarterly earnings report that slaughtered an already-decimated stock, Zynga executives and investors unloaded some of their stock, raking in...