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 directs popsicle-dispensing zombie hordes to San Francisco and New York City

Zynga unleashes hordes of undead in San Francisco and New York City to promote its upcoming game Zombie Swipeout. Leave your shotguns at home, folks -- they just want to hand out popsicles and walk around.

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.

Slicing zombies and chasing coins in Zombie Swipeout (preview)

Zombie Swipeout, a new mobile title by Game Doctors and Zynga, offers a fun zombie-slaying diversion for iPhone and iPod touch systems.