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Zynga, the company behind such hits as Mafia Wars, Farmville, and CityVille, released yet another game today called Scramble with Friends. The game appears to play off of the success of the incredibly popular game, Words with ...
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After making the biggest Internet stock offering since Google, online game maker Zynga debuted on the Nasdaq Global Market with an uninspiring performance as shares closed at $9.50 on Friday, down 5 percent from IPO price.
“In Wall ...
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The writers of Toy Story have decided to capitalize on the huge success of Zynga's Facebook game Farmville by attempting to write a script around the popular social game.
One Toy Story writer told IGN:
"We're in conversations with Zynga ...
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If you're like me and you haven't been swayed by the current Facebook gaming options like FarmVille, social gaming developer Zynga has something that just might get you on board with the whole social gaming fad.
In comes ...
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I don't know how much money developer Zynga has made from FarmVille, but it must be a crapload because it's somehow encouraged Lady Gaga to sign up to a Gaga/FarmVille crossover thing called GagaVille. *checks date* Nope, ...
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An interesting theory has been posited by Adweek, concerning the mostly-concurrent rise of social gaming via social networks- like FarmVille on Facebook- and the death of daytime soaps.
A few weeks ago, two long-running TV soaps were cut ...
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In the general run of the mill business world trademarks make sense but when it comes to the web company world it seems like no-one has any sense at all.
According to the Fusible blog Zynga has decided ...
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A new Facebook game called BlingVille has apparently pissed off Zynga, the company behind hits FarmVille and CityVille, because it uses the 'Ville' suffix. Zynga - like the schoolyard bully it is - is preparing to take ...
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This is a thing that is happening.
FarmVille for Dummies just became available for preorder at Amazon, ahead of its release on February 15th, 2011. The perfect ... Valentine's gift? For $13.14, the book promises to "get novices ...
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In a super-lengthy interview with game developer Jonathan Blow, Gamasutra uncovers the thought process that goes into the creation of the plague of social games on Facebook like FarmVille, Mafia Wars or FrontierVille.
It turns out the ...
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The massive Facebook-centric game Farmville, which in the past has gotten headlines for getting people fired, is in the news again for a less than positive reason.
A young Florida woman has pled guilty to second-degree murder for ...
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If you've ever tried to use a too-small iPod or iPhone app on the iPad, you're aware of how it is distracting to the point of uselessness.
The remaining Farmville addicts who have splashed out on the devices ...
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Mark Pincus, head of FarmVille and Mafia Wars maker Zynga, is about to be cast as the gaming industry's latest pantomime villain. Speaking to SF Weekly, an ex-Zynga employee has revealed how Pincus told him:
"I don't fucking ...
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The still pretty popular Zynga property FarmVille is getting its first branded crop in-game in a partnership with General Mills subsidiary Cascadian Farms.
FarmVille gamers will get the option of planting Cascadian Farms blueberries on their fake farms, ...
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iPhone just added one more thing it's capable of doing when it's busy dropping phone calls- FarmVille for iPhone is slowly making its way across the world.
Chris first mentioned Zynga's forays into mobile FarmVille gaming in April, ...
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Social gaming company Zynga, who are behind the popular Facebook games FarmVille and Mafia Wars, released a new game today called FrontierVille.
FrontierVille is, as described by Zynga chief game designer Brian Reynolds, "Oregon Trail meets Little House ...
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Last week, relations were said to be at a potentially fatal low between Zynga, makers of FarmVille and Mafia Wars, and Facebook. This week, they're all chummy again, both companies having hit the "Accept Friend" button and ...
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Things are apparently getting tetchy between Zynga, creator of FarmVille and Mafia Wars, and Facebook, host site of said games. A bunch of sources informed TechCrunch that the relationship is currently "intense." In fact, things have reportedly ...
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It looks like FarmVille might soon be extending its tentacles beyond Facebook, and will soon appear on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or as a ... SMS game? However the hell that works.
In what can only be described ...
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It was really only a matter of time, wasn't it?
A city councilmember in the Bulgarian town of Plovdiv was ousted in a close vote because fellow councilmembers were really sick of (all the requests for barn roof ...
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"Real" gamers can turn their noses up at Facebook gaming hit FarmVille all they want, but with over 1% of the world's population playing it, the farming sim isn't going away any time soon.
That's why creators Zynga ...
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FarmVille, the in-Facebook game that simulates... farming, has gotten a new feature that users are buzzing about, and the horses finally have a place to go. Apparently this was a problem.
FarmVille, according to this post, outstrips the next ...
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![[Moron Dept.] Zynga files to a trademark on “Ville” in Europe](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/03/farmville-100x100.png)
