Zynga misses Q2 earnings estimates by a wide margin, incurring Wall Street’s wrath

Zynga reports increases in overall revenue, users, and advertising business along with some short-term challenges that caused the shortfall in estimates.

Zynga Poker’s daily payout of 16 trillion chips could cover the national debt (and other mind-boggling stats)

Zynga's mind-boggling player stats: If Poker winnings were converted into dollars, players could pay off national debt...in a day.

Zynga With Friends to feature live synchronous multiplayer

Zynga With Friends is a new social multiplayer platform that unites all Zynga players, no matter what device they're playing on.

Investors eagerly await Zynga’s Unleashed event today

Today, all eyes will be on Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, to see whether he can keep his developers churning out games that can continue to capture the hearts of hundreds of millions of social gamers.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

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.

Zynga launches Bubble Safari as it moves into arcade-style social games

Zynga is moving into new territory in social games today as it launches Bubble Safari for Facebook. The game is a “match-three bubble shooter” game where you play a monkey who shoots bubbles at fruit, with the goal of hitting …