Confirmed: Zynga laying off 520 employees as it restructures to focus on mobile
Zynga is shutting offices in Dallas, New York, and Los Angeles.
Zynga unleashes Gauntlet-like Battlestone on iOS
Battlestone is a fantasy arcade-action free-to-play game available now for iOS devices.
Candy Crush Saga dominates a volatile casual gaming market
Zynga and Disney are struggling as new competitors start to take control of the lucrative casual market.
Beware the Angry Bulls: Zynga launches Running With Friends
The seventh in the With Friends series is set in Pamplona, Spain, where you have to outrun the bulls.
Zynga reveals League of Legends-like Solstice Arena for mobile
Zynga has its own MOBA, but it is focusing on mobile rather than on competing with League of Legends or Dota 2.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Minecraft sells 10M on mobile, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Apple hits 50B apps, and more
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Smell could be the last frontier in making games more immersive and realistic
Making sound more adaptive could also benefit games.
Zynga to publish Disruptor Beam’s Game of Thrones: Ascent social game
Game of Thrones Ascent has gained 500,000 users in two months, and now Zynga will promote it to its 250 million monthly users.
Let’s put a dollar on it: Skillz brings real-money cash wagering to Android
You can start wagering and winning/losing real money in games on Android right now.
Gree searches for the billion-dollar game from its swanky S.F. headquarters (interview)
With 450 people at its U.S. headquarters, Japan's Gree is chasing after the giant mobile game.