Zynga to close CityVille 2 as it shows no mercy for weak games
FarmVille 2 is the company's best launch in two years.
FarmVille 2 is the company's best launch in two years.
While Zynga is still technically losing money in the fourth quarter, its earnings report is cheering up the stock market.
Koolbit has flipped the switch on its mobile casino games, and they are now available as real-money online and mobile-gambling titles in the United Kingdom.
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December saw an astounding increase in revenues and downloads for mobile games.
Guest Post The former chief game designer of Zynga explains his own exit.
Brian Reynolds brought gamer cred to Zynga when he joined in 2009.
Investors are worried about the U.S. retail game market. But overall game-industry sales are at $68 billion, growing 7 percent a year.
Editor's Pick The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.
The co-founder of Playdom is funding game companies; he thinks Zynga's chief executive ought to give up his supervoting rights.
For the first time in years, Zynga does not have the top game in daily users on Facebook.
About 350M crops are harvested every day in Zynga's most popular social game.
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From game violence to sex chat, game companies got into hot water in 2012.
Zynga is shutting down 11 games soon as part of a cost-cutting measure, according to TechCrunch. The free-to-play games are either unpopular or are older titles that stopped monetizing well. Still, some of those, like PetVille (pictured above), had millions …
2012 went by fast. Here are the trends that mattered in gaming.
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Big failures and surprise successes marked 2012 for the games industry.