While moderating the SXSW panel on Women in the Video game industry on Tuesday, A.J. Glasser of Inside Network made a few basic points that are often overlooked by male gamers. Women play games. Women make games. Women write about games. A woman who does any of these things is not, in Glasser’s words “a […]
A developing story out of Austin – Zynga is rumored to have laid off over 100 employees, essentially shuttering the office. News first spread around Twitter: So far, I’m hearing closures of Zynga in Boston, Chicago, and Austin. INTERESTING TIMING, EH? — Alex Navarro (@alex_navarro) October 23, 2012 Zynga just fired over a hundred people, […]
Zynga, Zynga, Zynga. How many hours of my life have I lost to you, Zynga? Zynga is one of those companies people love to hate. Some of their biggest games, measures in active players and revenue, were concepts copied from other companies. Farmville, released in June 2009, was the most popular game on Facebook for […]
Kabam, an online game developer, is bringing The Godfather to Facebook with their newest browser-based game, The Godfather: Five Families. They’re currently testing their beta and inviting select users, who sign up on their website, to play. I signed up, got access to the beta several days ago, and quickly began the arduous journey into […]
If you listen closely, you can hear real game designers all around the world laughing in Zynga’s face. Zynga, the Vanilla Ice of the gaming industry, was hit by yet another patent suit last Wednesday. According to a press release by Agincourt Gaming, “Agincourt, a recent entrant into the social gaming space, owns foundational patents […]
