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Zynga’s CEO Mark Pincus has revealed his thoughts on Mafia Wars 2, admitting that the game disappointed and lacked on a ‘fun, core, playable’ level. Pincus shared his assessment on the sequel to the multiplayer social network hit in an interview with Yahoo. Last year "Mafia Wars 2" was a …

Zynga with Friends has been unveiled as part of the social games company’s Unleashed event earlier today in San Francisco. The new feature will link players from across Zynga’s multiplatform network through a single service; essentially a social network for social games. General Manager Michael Bronstein explained the purpose of …

Zynga has revealed two new titles along with a sequel for its Ville franchise. The social games company revealed at their press event in San Francisco that titles The Ville, ChefVille, and FarmVille 2 are on the way. The Ville is a Facebook game where players will be able to …

Social games powerhouse Zynga has announced a trio of new publishing partnerships. The company revealed at its Zynga Unleashed event earlier today in San Francisco that Majesco, 50 Cubes and Portalarium have partnered and will have Zynga handle publishing duties for their applicable titles. Zynga also highlighted Konami, Playdemic, and …

Dawnguard, the eagerly anticipated first downloadable content for last year’s RPG phenomenon The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, is unavailable for Indian Xbox 360 users. While Skyrim was officially released in India and Bethesda does have an official distributor here, no Skyrim content is available on the Indian Xbox Marketplace. On …

Share price drops thirty cents following press conference

Social games network links all Zynga platforms

Zynga's hardware and services now available without local back end servers

Sony has just released the Indian prices for its PS3 and PS Vita line-up for the remainder of 2012-13 along with tentative release windows. Interestingly, while both God of War: Ascension and Beyond: Two Souls are listed, The Last of Us isn’t, suggesting that Naughty Dog’s survival action title won’t …

Earlier this month, kids social network Habbo grabbed the headlines when Channel 4 reported on the sexual predators that allegedly stalk the site’s 265m users. Within two minutes I was being asked ‘do you have a webcam?’, ‘can we chat on MSN or Skype?’,” said Channel 4 News producer Rachel …