Tweet Zynga, the social gaming company whose “Mafia Wars,” “FarmVille,” and other games have amassed millions of devoted fans, is now worth billions of dollars and, on December 16, made its debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The company, which is named after founder and CEO Mark Pincus’ bulldog, “Zinga,” priced shares at $10 a piece and raised
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Tweet Several features of Google‘s new social network are quite similar to Facebook features, and rumor has it that the two will become even more similar with time. According to Engadget, Google Plus’s source code reveals that a social gaming network may be in the works. Facebook has had major success with social games like
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Tweet Wish you could be on Facebook both as yourself and as a virtual avatar version of yourself? Good news: here come “The Sims.” EA will launch “The Sims Social” for Facebook as an extension of the popular Sims franchise. According to Mashable, a Facebook page for the game is already up, though no information
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Tweet ynga, the creators of FarmVille and CityVille, is about to unleash its newest social game upon the world: Empires & Allies, the company’s first combat strategy game. The social gaming giant describes Empires & Allies as “CityVille meets Risk.” Unlike FarmVille, where your goal is to build up your property through trade and commerce,
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Tweet Zynga, the force behind wildly popular social games like Farmville, Mafia Wars, and FrontierVille, is preparing to file its initial public offering, writes All Things D‘s Kara Swisher, citing unnamed sources “close to the situation.” According to All Things D, Zynga may file with the Securities Exchange Commission “as early as this week, or
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Tweet It’s not a good sign for a social network when game developers begin to shut down applications all together. And it appears that Zynga is shuttering its Mafia Wars game on beleaguered social network Myspace. According to a notice on the Mafia Wars homepage within Myspace, Zynga is discontinuing Mafia Wars on Myspace beginning
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Tweet Facebook will limit the Facebook Feeds based on its games. Facebook games designed by Zynga has truly revolutionized computer games by luring our friends into competing with us through feeds boasting of their achievements or asking us to join them in the fun. The Facebook game feeds are often posted online along with our
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