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27 articles

First Reported May 16 2012 - Updated May 16 2012 - 1 Documents

Brian Reynolds

Zynga's Soren Johnson on why company is shifting focus to game design

Noted game designer and programmer Soren Johnson, who has worked on titles like Spore and the Civilization series, has left Electronic Arts to join rival company Zynga.Johnson cited shifts in the game industry away from big-budget retail games with long ... [ Published May 16 2012 by Gamasutra ]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, Electronic Arts Inc, Barry Cottle, Brian Reynolds, FrontierVille

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Zynga suing over Pyramidville’s alleged trademark infringement

Social gaming giant Zynga is back in court again, issuing a lawsuit against Kobojo. According to GamesIndustry , the publisher alleges Kojobo’s Pyramidville infringes on Zynga’s trademarks, namely Farmville, FrontierVille, CityVille and the like. Zynga ... [ Published May 09 2012 by VG247 ]

Entities: Zynga Game Network Inc, FrontierVille, Trademark, Cityville, Farmville

First Reported May 01 2012 - Updated May 01 2012 - 1 Documents

2012 Game Developers eXchange Announced

Details for the 2012 Game Developers eXchange have been announced, with a speaker's list and review of the program for this year's conference in sunny Savannah. GDX is open to gamers as well as developers and game professionals, and the 2012 conference ... [ Published May 01 2012 by N4G.com ]

Entities: FrontierVille, Art Director, Zynga Game Network Inc

First Reported Apr 25 2012 - Updated Apr 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Facebook Inc

Gaikai CEO: Why Cloud Gaming Works on Facebook

It looks like FarmVille and FrontierVille have some competition on their hands after Gaikai announced a beta app for its Facebook gaming service. The cloud gaming service recently launched its app in an effort to bring console quality games to Facebook. ... [ Published Apr 25 2012 by N4G.com ]

Entities: Gaikai Inc, Gaming, Facebook Inc, FrontierVille, Farmville

First Reported Apr 10 2012 - Updated Apr 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Electronic Arts Inc

Electronic Arts - Why has it's financial performance been so poor? - by Gerald Belman

Electronic Arts - Why has it's financial performance been so poor?So in my previous blogs I wrote about how I think EA will recover in the few years and will return to profitability.In this blog post I want to talk about why I think EA has been performing ... [ Published Apr 10 2012 by Gamasutra ]

Entities: Electronic Arts Inc, Activision Blizzard Inc, Farmville, Mobile Games

First Reported Apr 09 2012 - Updated Apr 09 2012 - 1 Documents

iPhone

Magic Tree Review (iPhone, iPad)

Magic Tree is something you don't see quite so often as you used to, even on iOS: a pretty straightforward farm sim. It includes some gameplay elements borrowed straight from Frontierville, like erecting buildings and following a loose sequence of events ... [ Published Apr 09 2012 by Gamezebo ]

Entities: Cloning, iPhone, iPad, Farmville

Quotes

...social game design is being led by metrics towards decisions which maximize revenue over fun," said Johnson in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. "Tim and Brian, however, convinced me that Zynga is shifting its primary focus to game design."

Zynga's Soren Johnson on why company is shifting focus to game design [Gamasutra - May 16 2012]

...and competing and trying to drive their competitors into the ground so they can one day stand atop the mountain of game industria and proclaim "behold! I have slain my foes, now you shall play only my games" The reason that it is so competitive is because everyone wants to be a part of it

Electronic Arts - Why has it's financial performance been so poor? - by Gerald Belman [Gamasutra - Apr 10 2012]