Snack your way to FarmVille success, as Zynga teams up with Frito-Lay
For better or worse, snacking and gaming seem to be inexorably linked. Now social gaming giant Zynga is building on this relationship, by teaming...
The Facebook gaming boom is fizzling out, analyst firm says
Facebook's gaming boom has come to an end, according to a report from IHS Screen Digest Media Research. The subject is open to debate and players such as Facebook and Zynga will no doubt dispute this. But IHS Screen Digest has put together an argument that will likely get a lot of attention, as games such as those made by Zynga have driven the growth of the social network...
Game analyst Michael Pachter: The Wii was a bubble, but social gaming isn’t
Michael Pachter, an oft-quoted video game analyst, said the social gaming explosion of the past few years isn’t a bubble; rather, the Nintendo Wii...
Bejeweled maker PopCap bets on Facebook casino-game gold rush
Ever since the Justice Department opened the door to the legalization of online gambling, the leading creators of social games are feeling increasingly lucky....
Disney Playdom launches Blackwood and Bell Mysteries to race ahead of Zynga
Disney-Playdom is announcing today a new hidden-object game, Blackwood and Bell Mysteries, on Facebook as it tries to stay one step ahead of Zynga...
Mobile ad startup Kiip hires Zynga’s advertising chief as COO
Kiip is announcing today that it has hired Zynga’s ad boss Manny Anekal as chief operating officer. San Francisco-based Kiip is a fast-growing startup...
Oops: Counterfeit Pokémon game approved by Apple
You know how app developers are always talking about Apple’s mysterious and allegedly thorough iTunes app approval process? Apparently it can’t be too restrictive...
Zynga’s hybrid zCloud lets it get rid of two out of every three servers
Social game maker Zynga has shifted 80 percent of its game traffic to its own private data center servers, known as the zCloud, the company revealed yesterday...
Zynga teams up with Slingo to publish Bingo-slot-machine hybrid game on Facebook
Zynga has teamed up with cross-media gaming firm Slingo Inc. to create a new version of the casual game Slingo on Facebook. Slingo is...
Looking beyond Facebook, Zynga hits 15M daily mobile game users
Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus said the social game company now has more than 15 million daily active users for its mobile games, compared...