Zynga stock surges as it slightly beats analysts’ reduced targets for third quarter

Zynga's stock is rising in after-hours trading as a result of the better earnings and a stock buyback program.

Zynga CEO’s letter to employees: We’ve laid off 5 percent of our workforce

Zynga has closed its Boston studio. Plans to close Zynga Japan and U.K., while Austin loses a significant portion of its staff.

Markets pummel Zynga’s share price (update)

The social-gaming company "preannounced" a slumping earnings report yesterday and is paying the price today.

Zynga confirms it hired real-money gambling chief

Zynga confirmed it has brought aboard a real-money gambling executive to guide its way into online gambling.

Executive turnover continues: Zynga loses its chief marketing officer Jeff Karp

Zynga has suffered a number of executive departures recently. The latest is Zynga's chief marketing officer, Jeff Karp.

The DeanBeat: The race between the game giants and the startups

Who will win the race in the video game business: startups or giants?

In latest departure, Zynga loses its chief creative officer

The loss of Mike Verdu is just the latest setback for the struggling social-game giant.

Kixeye steals a general manager from Zynga, rescuing him from the ‘dark side’

Kixeye recruits a general manager away from Zynga so he can make "real" games.

Zynga sets aside a huge pile of low-priced stock for employees

Social game giants plans to use this to keep employees around and on target, even as its stock price sinks downward.

The DeanBeat: What’s next for Zynga as its ‘happily ever after’ fairy tale ends?

Zynga had a bad quarter, but this does not mean that social gaming is completely and utterly collapsing.

Zynga COO John Schappert steps down

Beset by charges of copyright infringement and insider trading, the bad news keeps rolling in for Zynga as the social game company confirms the departure of chief operating office John Schappert.

The DeanBeat: How fast will the shift to huge growth for mobile games happen?

With the console market looking a little shaky and Facebook starting to slow down, mobile stands before the gaming industry as a potential savior.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Gamescape 2012, a history of Batman in video games, and Donkey Kong’s failing liver

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

BustVille: Zynga shares down an astounding 35% in after-hours trading

The company's stock closed the day at $5.19, but it dropped, at one point, by 40 percent on news of the terrible earnings.

Zynga to launch real-money gambling online games in 2013

Zynga's first real-money online gaming game will likely launch outside the U.S. until other legal markets emerge.