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[Every other week, we examine the most popular Facebook games (according to monthly active users), looking at the top titles and developers on the social network to see who's attracting or losing players.] In our last tally of the most popular Facebook...
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[Every other week, Gamasutra examines the fastest growing Facebook games (according to monthly active users), looking at which titles and developers are having the most success attracting new players on the social network.] Zynga's Texas HoldEm Poker i...
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Developer Digital Chocolate filed a lawsuit against rival social games studio Zynga for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and other charges concerning the Mafia Wars trademark. Digital Chocolate says it created a mobile game titled Mafia Wars...
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& #8203;The San Francisco City Attorney's office is investigating alleged "illegal marketing tactics" practiced by Zynga to promote Mafia Wars: Las Vegas with "acts of sidewalk vandalism". Zynga launched Las Vegas, an expansion to its popular socia...
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In-game commerce network PlaySpan secured $18 million in a new round of funding, which it will put toward its expansion into Europe and Asia, and growing its global publisher network and userbase. This Series C investment round was led by Vodafone Vent...
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Social games company Zynga has launched its public beta for Zynga Texas Poker, the FarmVille developer's first internationally-localized game, in traditional Chinese. The localized title is based on the studio's Texas Holdem Poker, the third most popul...
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Social games company Zynga announced its acquisition of Cambridge-based Conduit Labs, which will now operate as Zynga Boston and is in the process of closing down its Facebook games, Music Pets and Super Dance. Financial terms for the deal were not dis...
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Talking at GDC Europe on Tuesday, Zenimax Online head Matt Firor talked about the complex definitional relationships between the "casual" and "hardcore" in games, showcasing how Zynga's FarmVille "has serious hardcore gaming characteristics." Kicking o...
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FarmVille developer Zynga has appointed Owen Van Natta, formerly CEO of MySpace and an executive at Facebook before that, as its new executive vice president of Business Operations. Van Natta, who is also joining the San Francisco-headquartered develop...
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Zynga's mega-hit social game FarmVille is no longer available at the MSN Games portal, where it appeared last February after a publicized agreement between the farming sim's developer and Microsoft. Though Zynga hasn't yet provided details for why the ...
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