Online Games

By Barb Darrow, GigaOM Zynga, the newly public company behind Farmville, Mafia Wars and other games played by gazillions of people, is relying far less on Amazon's public cloud than it has in the past. On the company's fourth quarter earnings call Tuesday, buried in the numbers about growth of daily active users, monthly active users and monthly unique users was a little bombshell: Zynga has already moved a huge chunk of its workload from...  

“The risk/reward scenario is a little different at these levels.” Zynga is best known for popular Facebook games such as “CityVille,” “FarmVille,” “Texas HoldEm Poker” and “Words with Friends.” Its newly launched “Hidden ...  

The online game maker of hits like FarmVille and CityVille issued its ... Still, on both metrics, the company managed to beat analysts’ expectations. “We saw great momentum in mobile and advertising and ended the year with a strong pipeline ...  

Zynga Inc., the company behind the most popular Facebook games — "FarmVille," "CityVille" and "Zynga Poker," to name a few — reported a large net loss for its fourth quarter, weighed down mainly by stock compensation expenses. Its revenue ...  

The maker of internet games FarmVille and Words With Friends posts fourth-quarter revenues of $307m, but shares fall in tradingSocial gaming firm Zynga released its first set of results as a public company on Tuesday and beat Wall Street's expectations, but only just.The game maker behind CityVille, FarmVille and Words With Friends delivered fourth-quarter revenues of $307m, or 5 cents per share.Analysts had expected the company to report...  

... world's largest social game developer with more than 227 million monthly active users playing their games which include CityVille, FarmVille, CastleVille, Indiana Jones Adventure World, FrontierVille, Words With Friends, Mafia Wars, Mafia Wars 2 ...  

Zynga, the maker of popular social games including Farmville, CityVille, and Mafia Wars, has made a major shift in where it gets the computing horsepower for its more than 227 million monthly active users, in effect, upending its dependence on Amazon Web ...  

The GuardianHasbro inks deals with Zynga to make new board gamesBoston HeraldBy Brendan Lynch Pawtucket, RI-based Hasbro has struck a deal with San Francisco's Zynga, the maker of popular Facebook games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and Words With Friends, to translate those digital games into physical board games.Zynga, Hasbro partner to make toys, gamesReutersHasbro to develop toys based on Zynga gamesBoston.comFarmVille-opoly? Hasbro inks...  

Social network revealed in SEC filing that Farmville, CityVille and Mafia Wars maker accounts for up to 12% of total revenueShares in the social games firm Zynga have soared after Facebook revealed in its $5bn initial public offering filing that the Farmville maker accounts for up to 12% of its total revenue.Investor appetite in Zynga peaked in early trading on Thursday, sending the company's shares price soaring 16% to $12.60 – the highest it...  

Zynga is the world's largest developer of online social games. It was founded by Mark Pincus in January 2007. The company's offerings include FarmVille, CityVille, Words With Friends, CastleVille, and Zynga Poker. Zynga's games are popular in social ...  

Zynga -- the huge developer of social games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, Words with Friends, and many others -- has been under siege of late with accusations of ripping off other developers. Things aren't going to get easier any time soon, as ...  

San Francisco-based Zynga is the biggest developer of Facebook games, including "CityVille" and "Texas HoldEm." The revenue comes from Zynga's sales of virtual goods and from direct advertising purchased by Zynga. In addition, Zynga produces a ...  

Cloud gaming company Gaikai confirmed today at the Cloud Gaming Europe conference that its online game-streaming service is coming to Facebook. The move puts streaming video games on a social network that has over 800 million users. Gaikai chief executive David Perry explained that the company is planning to offer demos of high-end gaming titles via Facebook soon, reports GI.biz [registration ...  

A Chinese Internet company has said it is paying French football player Nicolas Anelka 2.7 million euros ($3.4 million) to endorse a new online game, as the striker gears up for his first season in China.  

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