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 rolls out new games for casino, arcade, and mobile — are they clones?

Zynga announced several new games at its Unleashed event today in San Francisco. These games aren’t likely to do much for the company’s reputation for cloning the games of other companies.

Among the obvious titles that could draw flack is …

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: Xbox 720, 3DS XL, and surviving the zombie apocalypse

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 focuses on simplicity with its latest social game, Ruby Blast

Ruby Blast is Zynga's latest arcade-style Facebook game. It combines a bit of Bejeweled, a bit of Diamond Dash, and a whole lot of mining.