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Farmville Violates Facebook Privacy Rules

Are you inundated with unsolicited advertising of the spam variety? Ever wondered where the bastard gets your info from? If you’re a regular player of unfathomably popular Facebook games like Mafia...

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Zynga is now worth more than EA

Take THAT all you gamers who sneer at casual games on Facebook (I’m including myself in that group by the way). It’s somewhat depressing to learn that Zynga’s estimated market value is now greater than...

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Free games coming to Xbox Live

Rumour has it that Microsoft will start to allow free to play games such as Farmville and Cityville onto the Xbox 360 in the near future.

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Mom leaves kid to drown while she plays games

The deliberately psychologically addictive nature of Facebook games like FarmVille and its ilk is under the spotlight again, this time highlighted as one of causes of the death of a 13 month old boy....

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Zynga insider spills the beans, details spying and “unfun” design ideas

They may be a social games Behemoth, but it appears that the gaming development behind the scenes at Zynga is also one that uses underhanded tactics to make as many dollars as possible, as one former...

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Draw Something CEO proves that he’s an ass, or just human

OMGPOP's CEO has gone off pop at a previous colleague over twitter

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Is Zynga guilty of insider trading?

Farmville creator zynga's stocks have nosedived - and it looks like its leaders sold off stock before the crash.

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If video game companies were your friends…

What if video companies were real life people, and your friend as well? We take a look at what could be.

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So, what’s Zynga worth?

Social gaming giant Zynga, behind Farmville, might not be so big afterall.

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Zynga to make gambling games

Social gaming giant Zynga's next step is to eter the world of real-money online gambling.

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Zynga closes 11 games, what now?

Zynga is in trouble and has announced it is closing 11 online games.

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Zynga defends copying, says all games are derivative

Zynga has defended its practices of copying other games, saying that all games are derived from one another.

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EA shuts down Facebook games

EA's cancelled a number of its Facebook social games - and naturally, some people are rather upset.

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Zynga is losing gamers by the truckload

Your Facebook games from the Zynga stable might be failing pretty hard right now. And it's all your fault. Well done!

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Zynga closing more studios

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus has confirmed more cuts coming to beleaguered casual game company Zynga - 18% of the work force.

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Don Mattrick will earn How much at Zynga?

Former Xbox head Don Mattrick could earm a heck of a lot of money in his new role at Zynga.

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Zynga posts massive losses, slashes headcount

Zynga's first financial earnings report since Don Mattrick joined them isn't pretty.

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Zynga sues Bang With Friends

Words with Friends developer Zynga is not happy about a casual sex app called "Bang With Friends"

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Social and Mobile gaming continuing decline

With a decline in online spending, is it the end for mobile gaming?

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Farmville Violates Facebook Privacy Rules

Are you inundated with unsolicited advertising of the spam variety? Ever wondered where the bastard gets your info from? If you’re a regular player of unfathomably popular Facebook games like Mafia...

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