Zynga CEO explains his vision for long-term gaming leadership
Don Mattrick says Zynga is being "purposefully competitive."
Zynga misses Wall Street expectations, but it invests in NFL and Tiger Woods games for the ‘long term’
A year into his tenure, CEO Don Mattrick is having a hard time growing revenues, but he remains an optimist about investing in social mobile games.
Former Zynga developers secure $2.5M in seed funding for startup JuiceBox Games
JuiceBox Game will use its cash to help pay for the furthering development of HonorBound.
Fates Forever will test whether MOBAs designed for tablets can attract those who play League of Legends or Dota 2 (interview)
Fates Forever, a new multiplayer online battle arena game (MOBA) for tablets, debuted on iOS last week. The title has gotten good reviews and...
Nexon, Wargaming, and Zynga's Don Mattrick team up with London Venture Partners for new gaming fund
The seed fund will focus on game startups in Europe following LVP's success with Supercell, NaturalMotion, and others.
Global growth for social casino games slows to 8.6% in Q2 as big companies dominate
Social casino games grew 8.6 percent in the second quarter to $663.7 million, according to a report by Eilers Research. That growth isn’t as fast as it once was, but it shows that the market is becoming mature and established. Social casino games have become a $2.7 billion worldwide industry in a short few years thanks to rapid growth on Facebook and mobile.
Zynga's former developer-relations boss Rob Dyer joins Tapjoy
Dyer will oversee developer relations at Tapjoy now as its senior vice president.
Storm8 wants to become a household name in mobile games (interview)
Though it has 40 mobile games, 250 employees, and 50 million monthly active players, the publisher is still considered a bit of a small fry among the familiar mobile game industry leaders like King, GungHo Entertainment, and Supercell.
Nexon's new CEO wants creative devs, free-to-play to be fair — and cloners to take a hike (interview)
Owen Mahoney, new CEO of Asian free-to-play game giant Nexon, says we've gone through five years where the best game creators weren't being rewarded.
Exclusive: Zynga affirms its support of LGBT people & their rights after launching Duck Dynasty slots game
Zynga's experienced a host of problems over the last couple of years. You might want to add a public-relations kerfuffle to that list now.