Former chief game designer Brian Reynolds: On Zynga, games, and the future
Guest Post The former chief game designer of Zynga explains his own exit.
Zynga’s chief game designer, Brian Reynolds, resigns
January 29, 2013 5:30 PM
Dean Takahashi
Brian Reynolds brought gamer cred to Zynga when he joined in 2009.
Mystery narrative and new features headline CityVille 2′s launch
November 1, 2012 9:47 AM
Jeffrey Grubb
The social game has an original story and new gameplay features to expand the developer's reach into the genre.
From castles to card games: a rundown of Zynga’s biggest titles
December 12, 2011 9:30 AM
Jacob Siegal
Zynga is the most recognizable name in social gaming. Facebook members and iPhone owners alike have seen Zynga’s games continuously rise and fall from the top of the charts over the past few years, and with CastleVille’s launch earlier this …
Frontierville hits the Pioneer Trail (and you won’t die of Dysentery)
August 12, 2011 12:01 PM
Matthew Lynley
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 …
Richard Garriott: My plan to beat FarmVille and CityVille (video)
Richard Garriott is known as a video-game pioneer, an undersea diver and an astronaut. Now he wants to outdo Zynga, the creator of FarmVille and CItyVille, in social games. His new game company, Portalarium, will debut its first major game …
Traditional game veterans adapt to a world with CityVille and Angry Birds
There’s a specter hanging over the traditional video game industry, and you can see it in the image above. Social game companies such as Zynga and mobile games on the iPhone are grabbing players by the tens of millions. The …
Fastest-growing game in history: Zynga's CityVille hits 26M players in 12 days
Zynga‘s CityVille has become the fastest-growing game in history. And based on an interview with a key Zynga executive, that isn’t an accident. The company has all but figured out how to turn its game launches into a science, and …
Zynga launches rewards program with Citi
Finding a new way to make money, social game firm Zynga is announcing an alliance with Citi where it will make a line of exclusive game items available for Citi cardholders to purchase with their rewards program points.
The deal …
Zynga has its best launch ever with CityVille social game
Zynga said today that it had its best social game launch ever with the debut of CityVille last week. In its first 24 hours, more than 290,000 people played the city-building simulation game on Facebook.
That’s important to the company, …
RockYou acquires TirNua for next-generation 3D social games (exclusive)
RockYou is announcing today that it has acquired TirNua, a maker of a next-generation 3D game engine for Facebook games.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lisa Marino, chief operating officer at RockYou, said in an interview that the …
With 320M users, Zynga chief wants the company's icon front and center on all platforms
Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, wants a “dog activated world.” That means he wants to see Zynga’s dog logo everywhere. If you see the Zynga logo on an iPad app, for instance, you can launch it to see all …
Is Zynga worth more than Electronic Arts?
Is social gaming upstart Zynga really worth more than traditional video game giant Electronic Arts?
Zynga is currently valued at $5.27 billion on SharesPost, a secondary market, where Zynga employees can sell shares that they own in the private company. …
Gaming legend Brian Reynolds on how FrontierVille might change Zynga
Veteran game designer Brian Reynolds said today that FrontierVille, the game that launched earlier this year, was a way for Zynga to experiment with a new kind of social game design. And the experiment paid off.
Unlike Zynga’s previous games, …
Zynga CTO: We turn on 1,000 new servers a week for FarmVille and other games
Each day, Facebook game developer and FarmVille creator Zynga delivers about a petabyte of data — that’s 1 million gigabytes, or more than six Libraries of Congress — for its array of social games, chief technology officer Cadir Lee said …
DiscoveryBeat 2010: Check out our latest speakers for getting content noticed
We’re pleased to announced some heavy hitters at DiscoveryBeat 2010. The conference addressing the evolving problem of discovery in an era full of app stores and content. Our newest speakers have navigated these stores and managed to get their content …
Zynga's FrontierVille skyrockets to 20 million users in 36 days
Social game publisher Zynga said today that its Wild West pioneer-themed game FrontierVille has soared to more than 20 million users since it was launched on Facebook on June 9, 36 days ago.
The game is now the company’s third …
Zynga's FrontierVille crosses 5M gamers in 13 days
Social game publisher Zynga said today that the company has garnered more than 5 million daily active users in its new FrontierVille game that was launched just 13 days ago.
The Wild West pioneer-themed game is the company’s latest bid …
Zynga launches FrontierVille in bid to turn traffic around
Game maker Zynga hopes to halt a decline in its traffic on Facebook with the launch today of its newest social game, FrontierVille. It’s one of Zynga’s most elaborate titles to date, but it’s aimed at the same mass market …
