In its death throes, Adobe’s Flash kills off Zynga’s original FarmVille
Adobe is terminating its Flash software today, and with it will go Zynga’s original FarmVille game from 2009. That brings to an end an...
The game industry is finally making its way into emerging markets
The recent Game Developers Conference had a diverse collection of attendees and speakers from all over the world. Some of them had trouble making...
FarmVille co-creator Mark Skaggs leaves India’s Moonfrog Labs after 2 years
Mark Skaggs, co-creator of FarmVille, surprised everyone in 2015 when he left Zynga and took a job as a game designer at India’s Moonfrog...
Moonfrog taps FarmVille creator to build epic Baahubali mobile game
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, a major film from Indian director S.S. Rajamouli, debuted this week. And it is accompanied by a new mobile game from...
Dhruva’s Rajesh Rao is still bullish on India’s game market — after two decades
Rajesh Rao is one of the founding fathers of India’s game industry. He started Dhruva Interactive in Bangalore almost 20 years ago. Dhruva was...
Data-driven versus intuition-driven game design
When it comes to game design, we’ll find out one of these days if artificial intelligence can beat a human being at creativity. But...
FarmVille co-creator Mark Skaggs catches the express train to India to make mobile games
Mark Skaggs is a seasoned game designer whose hits such as FarmVille and Empires & Allies reached more than 365 million people. But after seven years...
An era closes at Zynga as FarmVille co-creator Mark Skaggs resigns
Mark Skaggs, a seasoned game designer that created hits such as FarmVille and Empires & Allies, has decided to leave Zynga after nearly seven...
Zynga goes hardcore with Empires & Allies on mobile
Zynga entrusted Empires & Allies to former Command & Conquer developer Mark Skaggs, whose games have been played by hundreds of millions.
Zynga starts testing Empires & Allies as a modern military combat game on mobile
Will a modern combat game help Zynga compete with the likes of Clash of Clans?