Gate2Play launches Zynga game cards in Middle East and North Africa
Zynga plans on taking over the world with social games. But it’s not so easy in places where there aren’t easy payment mechanisms such...
Call it GlobalVille: Zynga to launch version of CityVille on Tencent’s network in China
In its biggest diversification beyond Facebook to date, game maker Zynga is announcing today that it has partnered with social network Tencent in China and...
Google drops hint about games coming for Google+
Google accidentally confirmed that you’ll soon be able to play games on Google+. The company temporarily posted help pages confirming the existence of an...
Facebook describes how to design the best social games
What’s the key to making a successful Facebook game? Just ask Gareth Davis, a platform manager at Facebook, who has seen thousands of social...
Facebook’s biggest untapped opportunities for game developers
Zynga may look like the all-powerful, dominant game publisher on Facebook. But Facebook wants you to know it’s not too late to get in...
Updated: Facebook to share ad revenue with Zynga, SEC filing reveals
[Updated: Facebook has made a statement about the filing.] Social games maker Zynga it has a revenue-sharing agreement with Facebook. The agreement, disclosed in...
Here are Zynga’s minority investors: Google, Peter Thiel, Softbank and others
Social game maker Zynga has outed its minority investors, which stand to make some serious cash off the company’s upcoming $1 billion initial public...
Is Amazon going to challenge Zynga in social games?
Amazon.com‘s recent hire of a veteran games designer suggests the massive retailer may be about to get into the business of publishing games itself....
Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed. As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was...
Google Ventures partner: Venture capitalists are bad at picking games
Investors haven’t been very good at figuring out which gaming companies will be successful, said Google Ventures partner Joe Kraus. That’s not limited to...