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Zynga execs (left to right): Frank Gibeau, Matt

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Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau interview — Bouncing back to fast growth

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 4, 2019
8 min

Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau has been doing some victory laps in recent quarterly earnings calls. The maker of social mobile games like FarmVille, Merge...

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8 min

Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, cofounders of Riot Games.

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Marc Merrill interview: Why Riot Games took a decade to come up with new games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 2, 2019
12 min

League of Legends is a hard act to follow. At 10 years old, it’s a cultural phenomenon, and it still has 8 million concurrent...

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12 min

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Hearthstone Battlegrounds is an eight-player, Auto Chess-inspired mode

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 1, 2019
1 min

Blizzard Entertainment announced a new mode for Hearthstone today, Battlegrounds, during the opening ceremonies for BlizzCon 2019. Battlegrounds supports eight players per match. It...

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1 min

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Hearthstone’s year-long story ends with Descent of Dragons

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 1, 2019
1 min

Blizzard Entertainment announced Hearthstone‘s next expansion today during BlizzCon‘s opening ceremonies in Anaheim, California. It is Descent of Dragons, and it debuts December 10....

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1 min

Alec Baldwin has teamed up with Zynga on Words With Friends.

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Zynga teams up with Alec Baldwin for 10th anniversary of Words With Friends

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 31, 2019
1 min

Zynga and Alec Baldwin have been a good match ever since the actor got kicked off a plane for playing Words With Friends as...

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1 min

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Sanrio and MomentSQ are bringing Netflix hit Aggretsuko to mobile gamers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 30, 2019
2 min

Sanrio, AVM, Lab, and MomentSQ are teaming up to take Aggretsuko, based on the hit Aggretsuko Retsuko anime on Netflix, to mobile gaming. Now...

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2 min

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App Annie: How to go after Generation Z

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2019
1 min

App Annie, the mobile market data and analytics firm, released a report today on how to win over the hearts of Generation Z, or...

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1 min

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Blade raises $33 million for its cloud gaming service Shadow

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 29, 2019
2 min

Blade has raised $33 million in venture capital as the Paris-based company continues to expand its Shadow cloud gaming service. Founded four years ago,...