Zynga has closed the MySpace version of its Mafia Wars social game. Players of the MySpace version are being directed to Zynga’s MafiaWars.com if they wish to continue playing the game. At the time of its closure, Mafia Wars was the second most popular social game on the MySpace network with over 13 million registered [...]
Zynga has named former Tecmo Koei CEO Kenji Matsubara new CEO of its Zynga Japan office. Matsubara will take over as new CEO on May 9. Matsubara retired from Tecmo Koei in November of last year. Matsubara joined Dynasty Warriors developer Koei in 2001 and became CEO in 2007, prior to its 2009 merger with [...]
The online gaming industry continues to support survivors of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan with fund-raising initiatives driven by virtual goods and in-game donations. Zynga has raised over $2.5 million for Japan in conjunction with Save the Children and the Red Cross, with an additional $1.5 million directly donated by pop star Lady [...]
British hacker Ashley Mitchell was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing over 400 billion virtual poker chips from social game Zynga Poker. Mitchell made roughly £53,612 ($86,000) over the course of two months by selling one-third of the chips to third-party grey market RMT sites. Mithcell obtained the chips by hacking [...]
Zynga has acquired Floodgate Entertainment, a veteran developer of PC, casual and mobile games. Floodgate was originally founded in 2000 by employees from Looking Glass Studios, which developed influential PC titles like System Shock and Thief. Floodgate’s team will join the Zynga Boston studio formed after Zynga acquired Conduit Labs last August. Floodgate founder Paul [...]
The main site for Zynga‘s RewardVille customer loyalty service has gone live. The service itself became available to Zynga players last week, but only through specific supported games and toolbars. The main site at the time still displayed a “coming soon” image. Now the site is active and available in English, Portuguese, French, Italian, German [...]
Virtual world Gaia Online and social network Zynga are rolling out charity virtual goods to raise money for victims of the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan over the weekend. Gaia Online’s virtual goods will raise money for the Red Cross. Gaia Online says that it will make the value of all charity virtual [...]
Former InstantAction CEO Louis Castle has joined Zynga as its new Vice President of Studios, according to Develop. Castle comes to Zynga from InstantAction, which shut down in early November of last year after its final high-risk project, a social rhythm game called InstantJam, failed to find immediate success. At the time of its closure [...]
Zynga‘s reward site for players of its games, RewardVille, has gone live according to Games.com. The site launches with new in-game items available for CityVille, FrontierVille, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, Cafe World, Treasure Isle, YoVille, PetVille, Vampire Wars, and FarmVille. Right now the RewardVille features can’t be accessed from the main sites, but through an [...]
Social game developer Zynga is partnering with Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies to promote the upcoming film Rango through a special branded mission in FrontierVille. In the mission, players search for the titular Rango character, who tells the player that he or she needs to save their town from a drought just as in the [...]
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