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Mobile studio boss leaves after three and a half years
Read More »Zynga appoints new chief creative officer
Former FarmVille 2 lead Tim LeTourneau to be responsible game design across social games giant
Read More »Zynga loses treasurer to Twitter
Executive departs as company stock makes small rally
Read More »First GDC 2013 sessions revealed
Developers from Double Fine, Insomniac, Microsoft and Zynga set to speak at conference
Read More »Zynga CFO resigns as new COO steps up
Chief accounting officer Mark Vranesh to fill post
Read More »Former Zynga vets join Rumble Entertainment
Brian Schneider and Steve Desilets assume senior roles at free-to-play studio
Read More »November Software joins Zynga
Team to focus on mid-core mobile titles
Read More »Is free-to-play the future of gaming or just a cheap fad?
People don’t want to pay for games. That’s what MCV was told repeatedly at E3. And indeed many of this year’s high-growth or most controversial games – World of Tanks, League of Legends, CSR Racing amongst others – were absolutely free. Of course anyone that has followed this market as …
Read More »Anonymous threatens to take down Zynga
Hacker collective to act on November 5th, unless Zynga drops plans to cut staff
Read More »Anonymous threatens Zynga with fireworks night attack
Infamous hacker collective Anonymous has threatened to release confidential information about casual gaming company Zynga on November 5th. It is doing so, it claims, in response to the company’s outrageous treatment of their employees and their actions against many developers”. This presumably refers to last week’s closure of 13 of …
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