A look at Take-Two's $12B Zynga deal in 2022, just as casual games peaked post pandemic, Apple introduced ATT, and the mobile game market headed into a downturn
Video-game giant's push into smartphone titles was expensive and late. — Excitement over the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto VI … Bluesky: @janety.bsky.social . X: @cecianasta , @technology , @...
Meta plans to shutter the Facebook Gaming app on iOS and Android on October 28, 2022, transferring games, content, and groups to the main Facebook app
as Facebook Gaming app is sunsetting, the VP who oversaw the org in the past has recently departed from Meta https://t.co/CAlM4ySGu4 Ryan Browne / @ryan_browne_ : Facebook is closing down Facebook Gam...
Profile of Mehmet Aydın, a Turkish citizen who turned mobile game Farm Bank into an $80M Ponzi scheme; he surrendered on July 1 after three years on the run
play a fun mobile game, make some extra cash, and support the country's agricultural sector all at once.” Fascinating story by @Paul_Osterlund in @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... Damon Beres /...
[Thread] As a promised replacement for Flash, HTML5/JS is still in the stone age as a newbie-friendly animation/graphics-first authoring toolset
Flash had to die. It had too many knocks … Alexandra Ramos / ScreenRant : FarmVille Has Officially Shut Down After 11 Years Caleb Chen / Privacy News Online … : Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: J...
Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children who played video games into spending their parents' money
It turns out moving fast and breaking things might … AJ Dellinger / Engadget : Facebook willingly let kids spend their parents' money and didn't stop it Alan Martin / Inquirer : Facebook is lovely but...
Mark Pincus, Reid Hoffman launch Win the Future to rethink the Democratic Party; project's site will put political topics up for a vote, crowdsource proposals
It's called Win the Future, and Pincus is even courting potential WTF candidates like the frontman of '90s rock band Third Eye Blind. Tweets: @saksappeal and @josheidelson Tweets: Jim Saksa / @saksapp...
Zynga beats estimates with Q1 loss of $0.01/share on revenue of $167M; shares up over 7% in after-hour trading
but it's cutting 364 jobs Salvador Rodriguez / International Business Times : Zynga (ZNGA) To Cut 364 Jobs As First-Quarter Earnings Beat Analyst Estimates Mike Futter / gameinformer.com : Zynga Lays ...