U4iA Games brings its unusual free-to-play game to Facebook with spectacular results.
Four of these third-party partner games are now live on Zynga.com.
Richard Garriott's new game, Ultimate Collector, will be published by Zynga on Facebook.
It’s like the Sims hacked your family tree: Family Village is a game in which you can play alongside your ancestors (and learn about your family, too!).
Casual games developer King.com announced that its free-to-play title, Bubble Witch Saga, is now available on the iTunes App Store.
Leave it to Facebook to invent yet another way to keep us all glued to the site. The social network has made the status update stickier with the addition of embedded games that people can play as they skim the …
Playdom, Disney’s social games product group, has announced plans to team with developer Spry Fox to publish its latest social game, Triple Town, on Facebook.
Triple Town is a town-building puzzle game, functioning very similarly to a typical match-three …
Zynga may be losing some ground after spending years completely dominating the Facebook social gaming market.
Facebook today announced that it is changing the way it counts the number of active users who access an application on its site, a …
Amid a host other game announcements, Zynga unveiled its newest “Ville” game, CastleVille, at the Zynga Unleashed event this week. CastleVille certainly seems more ambitious than other games — it has better graphics than Zynga’s other titles and the soundtrack …
As annoying as it is to get Farmville requests from friends on Facebook, now there may be no way to escape the popular game: Farmville in talks to be made into a movie.
Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, writers on …
For now, Facebook’s gaming managers aren’t worried about the competition from Google+. If they keep doing a good job growing the engagement and monetization of users on their own platform, they expect that game developers, users, and Facebook itself will …
Social games maker Zynga is launching an Oregon Trail-style adventure within its Frontierville Facebook game today.
The add-on to Frontierville, a spinoff of the company’s smash hit Farmville, gives players the chance to travel on the “pioneer trail” in search …
Social gaming company Zynga today announced that it is bringing its mobile Scrabble-like game Words With Friends to Facebook.
That means players on Android devices and devices running the iPhone operating system iOS will be able to carry their active …
South Korean online-game company Nexon is formally launching the open beta of its MapleStory Adventures game, its first title aiming to tap into Facebook’s fast growth.
Nexon specializes in making big, downloadable role-playing and action games on the web. Its …
Supergiant video game publisher Electronic Arts has acquired casual game maker PopCap for $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock. The deal includes a multi-year earn out bonus, but there were no details released about it.
PopCap is …
Software licensing has hurt innovation in the video game industry — with social game maker Zynga being the exception to that rule — thanks to large game companies like Nintendo, said Electronic Arts founder and social gaming company Digital Chocolate …
The next version of Electronic Arts’ mobile Scrabble game will let players compete against each other across multiple devices and platforms — at the same time.
That means a person playing Scrabble through the company’s Facebook application will be able …
Social games maker Zynga, the developer behind smash hits like FarmVille and CityVille, has raised a total of $845 million in its four years of operation, according to its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange commission on Friday.
The …
Social games maker Zynga, the developer behind smash hits like FarmVille and CityVille, filed for an initial public offering on Friday. It is one of the largest initial public offerings expected this year, alongside group-buying site Groupon.
But the way …
Massively popular social gaming company Zynga today filed for a $1 billion IPO along with some staggering numbers, including that the company had already earned $90 million in profit in 2011. The filing also revealed what sort of compensation the …
