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Legal battle's tension increases as casual studios lock horns
Read More »Zynga sues ex-Cityville GM Alan Patmore
Former exec accused of stealing corporate secrets
Read More »Zynga’s CityVille GM heads to Kixeye
Double Fine vet Alan Patmore joins browser gaming firm as vice president of product
Read More »Zynga board game lands retail exclusivity, offers digital content
Argos has been unveiled as the exclusive UK supplier of Zynga’s upcoming board game FarmVille Hungry Hungry Herd. The product will release in October with an RRP of 19.99. It will also include a DLC code that grants players of the Facebook title a virtual currency boost. The release is …
Read More »Zynga shares drop 10%
Zynga has seen its shares fall 10 per cent following a damning analyst report. Doug Kreutz of Cowen and Co said Facebook games were ‘in an accelerating user tail spin’. NASDAQ stock exchange has temporarily stopped short selling of stock. The CityVille developer closed today’s trading at $4.98, down from …
Read More »Draw Something dethrones Zynga on Facebook
New casual games sensation hits 12.2m daily active users
Read More »CityVille lead designer quits Zynga for Idle Games
Michael McCormick becomes director of game design at San Francisco-based startup
Read More »Zynga releases ForestVille on iOS
We’ve already seen the success of FarmVille and CityVille – now Zynga has launched ForestVille on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The free-to-play building simulation game follows other iOS App Store titles from the casual games giant including Mafia Wars Shakedown, CityVille Holidaytown and Dream Zoo. Players of ForestVille can …
Read More »Zynga settles CityVille copyright lawsuit
Social games giant Zynga has ended its legal action on Brazilian games firm Vostu for alleged copyright infringement. Zynga took legal action on Vostu in June for ‘infringement of its creative works’ including titles such as Zynga’s popular Facebook game CityVille. Now Vostu has agreed to pay a fee to …
Read More »Facebook metrics in flux after calculation change
Cityville monthly active user figures drop by more than 20 million
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