The mobile gaming giant that owns "Words with Friends" and "Farmville" is being purchased in cash and stock deal worth $12.7 billion.

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US casual gaming giant Zynga is buying Turkish mobile game developer Peak for $US1.8 billion, the company confirmed Monday. The cash-and-share deal will see Peak’s 100-strong team and its portfolio of mobile game franchises join Zynga. Zynga name checked two titles: “Toon Blast” and “Toy Blast” which have consistently ranked […]

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden called video game developers “little creeps” who make games “to teach you how to kill people” in a recent interview with The New York Times. Biden’s criticisms for video game developers came unprompted when he was asked about Silicon Valley mergers, […]

“Words with Friends” developer Zynga has suffered a data breach that may have exposed player data to hackers. A hacker who claimed to be behind the attack told The Hacker News that the database he accessed included data for more than 218 million users – including passwords, names, and email […]

Zynga, the mobile-first developer behind games like “Words With Friends” and “FarmVille”, reported second-quarter results that revealed the company is on track to generates its best sales since 2012. The company posted a 41% year-over-year increase in revenue to $US306 million, with mobile revenue accounting for $US287 million and recording […]

Words With Friends is one of the most popular mobile games ever, and is very similar to the game that inspired it,Scrabble. I’m a nationally ranked tournament Scrabble player, and I can safely say playing Scrabble is way more satisfying than playing Words With Friends. I prefer Scrabble because it […]

Proposition C is a ballot measure in San Francisco, California that would tax the city’s largest corporations to provide more funding to homeless services. On Saturday, the gloves came off over Twitter between Zynga chairman and co-founder Mark Pincus and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Pincus tweeted: “Prop c is the […]

Rare Bits is a marketplace where you can buy and sell digital goods using cryptocurrencies. On Rare Bits, you can buy collectibles that you actually own through blockchain technology. For the team behind virtual goods marketplace Rare Bits, dealing in digitised assets is second nature. Three of Rare Bits’ four […]

Zynga founder Mark Pincus announced in a Medium post Wednesday that he is stepping down from his executive chairman role at the gaming company and converting his super voting shares into ordinary shares. The decision to scrap the dual class stock structure is an unexpected move, at a time when […]

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