Players use social games to pick up others, according to Zynga poll.
Bettner is funding the effort himself and has pulled a team together to make an Ouya game.
Guest Post How can a company that brings in $1.2 billion a year, and recently cut costs in order to achieve profitability, have a market value that's effectively zero? It doesn't make sense. Here's why Zynga is undervalued -- provided it does the right thing next.
In a phone interview with GamesBeat, brothers Paul and David Bettner confirmed their departure but wouldn't say what they'll do next.
Can't get enough of Zynga games? Now you can play CityVille Monopoly or Words With Friends as board games.
Zynga has a reputation for making games that...well, lack originality, so people are likely to raise eyebrows when they see its newest game, Gems With Friends, even if unfairly.
Here are seven (lame) ways that people cut corners in the most low-pressure games in existence.
Mark Pincus wants Zynga to reach a billion players. Facebook has been good to Zynga over the past five years, but the social network is not going to give it that many users. To get there, he’s counting on David …
Shiny Timeline cover images of mobile and social games like Angry Birds Space, CityVille, and Bejeweled Blitz for your Facebook profile.
Editor's Pick We've looked long into the eyes of the Android, and we've come back with 10 must-have games, the best alternative app stores, and other tips for getting the most out of your mobile device.
Editor's Pick After Zynga, the second-biggest player on Facebook isn't Electronic Arts anymore. It's Wooga, a Berlin-based studio that has become Europe's largest social game publisher with more than 49 million monthly active users on Facebook.
Now Wooga has raised $24 million in venture capital and has grown to more than 150 employees. The company now faces a number of strategic decisions, such as doubling down on Facebook or spreading out to platforms such as Google+ or Zynga.com. We caught up with co-founder Jens Begemann at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Here's a transcript of our interview.
Zynga has dominated the top charts of Facebook games for what seems like forever. So it’s surprising to note that Draw Something from OMGPOP has taken the No. 1 position in terms of daily active users this week, according to …
Perhaps it’s time to start calling it Words With Friends With Benefits.
Fans of Zynga‘s Words With Friends social game on Facebook are making love connections. For Valentine’s Day, Zynga polled 100,000 of its 19.9 million players and found that …
Hanging With Friends is a multiplayer puzzle game by Zynga where you guess the secret word your opponent has entered. It’s like Hangman, without the lynching.
Zynga has been kind enough to share the top five most-played Hanging With Friends …
Some of the most popular mobile games are simple ones. With that in mind, Zynga is launching Scramble With Friends on the iPhone and iPod Touch today.
The game is part of Zynga’s strategic expansion into mobile games, a market …
Zynga launched its first game for the Barnes & Noble Nook e-book reader today, Words With Friends.
The wildly popular Scrabble clone will debut as an app for the Nook tablet today. The move is one more attempt by Zynga …
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 …
If you made plans for your weekend, you might want to kiss them goodbye. Apple yesterday released its iTunes Rewind 2011 list, with the 40 top iPhone and iPad apps of the year. The iTunes store now has more than …
No single game maker dominates smartphone and tablet games the way Zynga is dominating social games on Facebook. But now Zynga may have its sights set on dominion over the mobile market too.
The company is stepping up efforts to …
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 …
