Big Fish Games launches shameless copycat Mime Something game
Big Fish Games is beating Zynga to the punch with a copycat title dubbed Mime Something. The game is debuting on April Fool’s Day,...
OMGPOP CEO tweets that only employee not to transition to Zynga was the “weakest” one (UPDATED)
In a pair of tweets, CEO Dan Porter of Draw Something developer OMGPOP called the one employee who turned down Zynga "selfish" and "the weakest one" on the team. Many fans of the sketching game for smartphones stated that they're uninstalling Draw Something based on Porter's behavior.
Zynga confirms engineering head on Zynga.com has departed
Zynga has confirmed that one of its key technologists, Neil Roseman, has resigned from the company. Roseman served most recently as vice president of engineering...
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
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The DeanBeat: “Evil” Zynga learns that old labels can come back to haunt you
Is Zynga evil? When Zynga paid $180 million for OMGPOP, the maker of the wonderfully creative Draw Something app, it was a great moment....
The post-OMGPOP boost: Zynga prices secondary offering at $12 a share
Fresh from the $180 million acquisition of OMGPOP, Zynga has priced the secondary offering of its stock at $12 a share. The San Francisco maker of...
Martha Stewart guest stars in Zynga’s CastleVille social game
Social games are becoming a mass-market medium. A clear sign of that today is Zynga’s announcement that Martha Stewart will make a cameo appearance...
Meet the one OMGPOP employee who turned down a new job at Zynga
In the torrent of coverage about Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP last week, most of the focus was on the price, eventually revealed to be...
Mob Science raises $1M for social games on Zynga’s platform
Mob Science, a social games developer and Zynga Platform partner, received $1 million in seed funding from Joynet CEO David Young and GameSpy Industries...
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...