Diablo-like Legends: Rise of a Hero launches on Zynga.com

Legends: Rise of a Hero is a free-to-play role-playing social game that focuses on collecting loot, recruiting friends, and building your kingdom.

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 when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …

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 founder Mark Surfas.

This funding will aid Mob Science as they promote their new role-playing game …

Zynga launches Zynga.com, to expand beyond Facebook in a big way

In a gigantic strategic step, Zynga announced today that it is launching a new Zynga.com destination website where users can play its social games without going directly through Facebook.

The move has big implications for the entire social-game industry, and …