Google is looking to get into the gaming world in a major way. Becoming the latest big budget firm to heavily endorse Facebook-related products, Google has invested between $100 and $200 million in social-games maker Zynga (Mafia Wars, Farmville). Adding that to the estimated $300 million the developer has already received this year in additional […]
Gangster movies are popular regardless of their context, and nothing could prove that better than if Zynga’s Facebook game/crack Mafia Wars received the silver screen treatment. According to Pajiba, the casual game is indeed attached to a film adaptation, Radar Pictures having already attached producer Ted Field (The Invention of Lying) to the project. The […]
The iPhone’s has kept a vice-like grip on the portable technology market since its release in 2007, and that success has been wooing some of the best developers in the games industry to make new or port over some of the best IPs to the hardware. The trend continues with both Facebook’s Farmville and Activision’s […]
Already working deals with 7-Eleven and Facebook, social games maker Zynga has announced yet another major deal, this time with Yahoo! and its global network of sites. Users of Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Games and others will be able to play Zynga games and update their respective gamer data, extending the reach of the […]