As social games boom, Spark Capital hires former Zynga exec as first venture partner
Zynga’s rise to a social gaming juggernaut traded on the public markets—which now boasts a market cap roughly equal to long-established companies like Electronic...
Hasbro licenses game characters and brands from Zynga
Hasbro and Zynga are announcing a deal where the big toy company will create toys based on Zynga’s game characters and social gaming brands....
Nexon invades Zynga’s turf with plan to launch Kart Rider on Facebook
Nexon and Zynga are dueling to be the darlings of the new game industry. Nexon got big with free-to-play online games that you download...
GamesBeat weekly news roundup
Here’s some of the stories that ran only on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more stories exclusively on the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat now,...
The DeanBeat: Billionaire Mark Pincus breaks out of quiet period (exclusive interview)
Mark Pincus is the newest billionaire in Silicon Valley, thanks to the December initial public offering of Zynga, the social game giant he founded...
Elite game group recruits board members from the new guard at Nexon and Zynga
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences is an elite professional game group that puts on the annual Dice Summit gaming event in Las Vegas...
Zynga accounted for $445M, or 12 percent of Facebook’s revenue, in 2011
Zynga, the largest app publisher on Facebook, accounted for 12 percent of the social network’s total revenue in 2011, according to Facebook’s inital public...
Zynga CEO: We aren’t the copycats on Bingo social game (exclusive interview)
Mark Pincus, chief executive of social gaming giant Zynga, denied that Zynga copied a rival’s Bingo game on Facebook. Instead, he said in an...
Zynga Bingo debuts on Facebook as part of casino suite
Adding to its Zynga Casino suite, Zynga is announcing today it has launched Zynga Bingo in a closed beta test on Facebook. The game...
THQ launches a Margaritaville Online Facebook game
In a major attempt to diversify, traditional video game publisher THQ is launching its Margaritaville Online social game on Facebook today. Inspired by the...