Well, this is an unexpected (and kind of hilarious) turn of events: USA Today is reporting that Don Mattrick, the head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, will be quitting the company in order to take over as CEO of struggling social games developer Zynga.
Social games giant Zynga is famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask,) for “borrowing” ideas from other companies’ games and adapting them (or again, depending on who you ask, copying them verbatim,) into their own products. According to a blog post by Zynga VP Dan …
The digital dust has settled over Zynga’s blatant copying of NimbleBit’s Tiny Tower back in January. Besides a clever infographic from NimbleBit and a load of bad press, there were no real ramifications for Zynga, no fines, no lawsuit, nothing. It’s not surprising; after all it …
It turns out that not everyone at Omgpop, developers of Draw Something, was down with Zynga’s acquisition of their company. Even though they paid over $210 million to acquire Omgpop and offered jobs to their employees, one brave developer decided working for Zynga just wasn’t for …
Zynga gets a lot of flack for their tactics, and a more common one is them making a complete knockoff of someone else’s game within months of its release. A few days back, the makers of Tiny Tower accused Zynga of ripping off their game, making …
As a lot of you know, Zynga is the second biggest Facebook games developer and make almost all the games you play on Facebook. However, that is just not enough for them and they are now suing another Facebook game developer, Blingville, over a word fragment …
