Zynga lets you show off your CSR 2 race cars with augmented reality Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 17, 2017 3 min CSR Racing 2 has been popular as a mobile game because it offers car racing fans the fantasy of collecting and owning their own... Continue Reading 3 min
Zynga CEO: How the company is staying on the comeback trail Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 11, 2017 8 min Zynga hit its peak in stock price and revenues a while ago. But the San Francisco company is still a force in mobile and... Continue Reading 8 min
Words with Friends 2 launches with new social features like co-op play Posted byby GamesBeat November 8, 2017 4 min The word of the day is “sequel” — as in Zynga launched Words with Friends 2 today to follow up its hit puzzle game Words with... Continue Reading 4 min
How Zynga plans to grow through acquisitions, new games, and live ops Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 7, 2017 3 min 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... Continue Reading 3 min
Zynga pays $100 million for Peak Games’ casual card game studio Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 7, 2017 2 min 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... Continue Reading 2 min
How Trivia Crack put Argentina on the world’s game industry map Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 7, 2017 13 min Here’s some trivia about the world’s most popular trivia game. Trivia Crack has more than 300 million users. Those players have answered more than... Continue Reading 13 min
Zynga launches partnership with Ferrari in CSR2 mobile game Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 14, 2017 2 min Zynga is partnering with Ferrari in a marketing deal to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the car company through a new line-up of vehicles... Continue Reading 2 min
Has Facebook become the game developer’s best friend? Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 6, 2017 12 min Gaming is better with friends. And gaming is important at Facebook. Those are the takeaways that Brian Boland, vice president of publisher solutions at... Continue Reading 12 min
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
Zynga’s mobile revenue zooms up 31% in Q2 thanks to CSR Racing 2 Posted byby GamesBeat August 2, 2017 1 min Just as in Q1, Zynga broke some of its own records in Q2, generating $179.9 million in revenue in the mobile market. “We saw... Continue Reading 1 min