Zynga has successfully purchased the developers of successful mobile app/game Draw Something, OMGPOP. It is estimated that the purchase price would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $150m to $250m, as OMGPOP itself is a company that’s already fueled by $17m worth of investor cash as is. Zynga scheduled a call at 3:00 PM Eastern [...]

Social gaming company Zynga today unveiled Zynga Direct, its new online distribution service. Zynga Direct will give Zynga an alternative way to deliver its games to players on computers or mobile devices, without having to go through Facebook. Zynga semms to be securing its foothold in the casual games market, Should Facebook be worried? “It’s [...]

Some domain sleuths have found out that Zynga has acquired the domain FamilyVille.com and is running it on its nameservers. This has led to widespread belief that Familyville is Zynga’s answer to The Sims franchise which EA is bringing to Facebook via The Sims Social app. I had a great dinner with some Zynga guys [...]

A couple of respected tech sites (Techcrunch and VentureBeat) are reporting that Google secretly has invested somewhere between 100 and 200 million USD in social games developer Zynga. This reported investment is alleged to be part of a Zynga partnership in preparation for the launch of Google Games. Google Games is reported to allow folks [...]

Frontierville is Zynga’s newest social game on Facebook and a lot of social gamers are flocking to it. Energy is FrontierVille’s most valuable and scarce resource. Fortunately we have the FrontierVille energy cheats, tips, and news to have you constantly refreshed in the wild wild west. Energy in FrontierVille is similar to how it works [...]

Warstorm and Ponzi developer Challenge Games has now been acquired by Zynga. Challenge Games executives, including chief executive, founder and serial entrepreneur Andrew Busey, and its 35 employees will immediately begin serving as Zynga’s Austin studio. On Facebook, Challenge Games has turned Duels into an app, launched Warstorm, another card-themed fantasy game, dabbled in role-playing [...]

Farmville is a popular web game found on facebook, by game publisher Zynga. Farmville allows players to manage their own farm by taking care of farm animals and growing vegetables and fruits. The two key objective is to build experience points so you can move ahead and to make money so you can build a [...]