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Xbox exec Don Mattrick to leave Microsoft for Zynga

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.
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Zynga VP: “Originality in games is vastly overblown”

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 …
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Zynga Shuts Down 11 Game Titles

Here’s bad news for those playing Zynga created social games over at Facebook. The company has just announced that they are shutting down 11 game titles which have failed to live up to their expectations. The company is currently implementing cost cutting measures as stocks have …
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Humpday Bump: Zynga’s Staff is Jumping Ship Edition

In the middle of the week I spend my time looking for a digital buffet of gaming goodies – I post them here on the Humpday Bump. This week’s bump features even more distressing news for social media giant Zynga as yet another big-wig has jumped …
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EA Sues Zynga, Maybe they aren’t ‘The Worst Company in America’

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 …
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Almost Humpday Bump: Engineer vs. Engineer Edition

In the middle of the week I spend my time looking for a digital buffet of gaming goodies – I post them here on the Humpday Bump. This week’s bump features a glimpse of what can happen when a professional gets their hands on Valve’s Source …
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Brave Omgpop Developer Says No to Zynga Acquisition

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 …
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Zynga accused of ripping off Buffalo Studio’s Bingo Blitz

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 …
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Zynga Gets Jealous of a New Startup and Starts Suing!

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 …
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Zynga’s Value Now Surpasses Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts recently splurged on social gaming developer Playfish; but they themselves have now reportedly been eclipsed by the biggest player in the emerging industry — Zynga.
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