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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 …
Read More »Zynga posts third quarter of losses
A loss of nearly $53m for the last quarter means that Zynga has now posted total losses of nearly $161m over the last nine months. But it wasn’t all bad news, and with numbers coming in ahead of expectations investors may this morning be feeling that there’s some reason for …
Read More »Zynga weighed down by OMGPOP purchase
Social gaming giant plans 150 total layoffs
Read More »After stock uncertainty and headlines comes the real cost of Zynga’s failure
Social games publisher Zynga has closed 13 of its studios resulting in the losss of around 100 jobs. The news was relayed to staff in a company-wide memo by CEO Mark Pincus which Zynga public relations reps also shared with the press. Specifically, the firm plans to: – Close down …
Read More »Zynga kills 13 games, proposes closure of UK and Japan offices
Social games giant streamlining operations to 'make Zynga into an internet treasure'
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