Why Zynga’s smiling on Dawn of Titans after killing Mafia Wars Posted byby GamesBeat August 2, 2017 3 min Earlier this month, social game developer Zynga shut down Mafia Wars, the mobile reboot of the original web game that soft-launched back in April.... Continue Reading 3 min
Guns, goats, and bomb scares: When video game PR goes bad Posted byby GamesBeat July 5, 2014 8 min We've collected 12 extreme examples of video game PR and asked the professionals why it always has to be so "edgy." Continue Reading 8 min
Ex-Zynga developers raise $1.4M to fund new studio and casino games Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 8, 2013 1 min Bee Cave Games has a new casino game in beta right now and plans to release more. Continue Reading 1 min
Kixeye steals a general manager from Zynga, rescuing him from the ‘dark side’ Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 23, 2012 3 min Kixeye recruits a general manager away from Zynga so he can make "real" games. Continue Reading 3 min
Zynga earnings preview: what the analysts think Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 26, 2012 2 min Zynga’s stock price has been falling in recent days in advance of the company’s first quarter earnings report today. The shares are trading at... Continue Reading 2 min
Timeline: A chronology of the life of Zynga Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 12, 2011 6 min Zynga is expected to go public any day now. The social game maker could raise more than $1 billion at a valuation of $8.9... Continue Reading 6 min
From castles to card games: a rundown of Zynga’s biggest titles Posted byby GamesBeat December 12, 2011 7 min Zynga is the most recognizable name in social gaming. Facebook members and iPhone owners alike have seen Zynga’s games continuously rise and fall from... Continue Reading 7 min
How Zynga grew from gaming outcast to $9 billion social game powerhouse Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 12, 2011 87 min Update: This article is now available as a 63-page e-book on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. Zynga has turned the video game world upside down in... Continue Reading 87 min
Zynga adds better graphics and game variety to Mafia Wars 2 Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 3, 2011 4 min Zynga unveiled details of its Mafia Wars 2 game today, a deeper and more graphically appealing version of its early social game Mafia Wars,... Continue Reading 4 min
Zynga launches Mafia Wars Atlantic City for mobile phones Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 20, 2010 1 min Zynga launched a mobile version of its Mafia Wars Atlantic City game today. The game is the social game company’s first designed for the... Continue Reading 1 min