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Anonymous Threatens to Attack Zynga on Guy Fawkes Night

By Matthew Bennett, Associate Editor
Posted on October 29, 2012 AT 04:16am

Anonymous has threatened to release several key documents and unreleased games from the developer's servers on Guy Fawkes Night. READ MORE

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Zynga: Analyst Says Now Is The Right Time To Purchase The Company

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on October 6, 2012 AT 03:00pm

Crash stocks, a talent brain drain, and mounting financial losses have Zynga scrambling to offset a year of huge losses, but their misfortune could be another company's gain. Why not just buy the whole company? READ MORE

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Zynga Games Headed To Physical World, Gamers Ask “Why?”

By DigitalNoob Staff
Posted on October 1, 2012 AT 11:50am

Two of Zynga biggest hits, Words With Friends and Draw Something, are effectively social media/digitally-adapted real world, physical games. READ MORE

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Zynga Files Countersuit Against EA, Says Rival’s Lawsuit Has ‘No Merit’

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on September 15, 2012 AT 03:30pm

EA's lawsuit against Zynga for alleged copyright infringement of The 'Ville against The Sims Social is going to hit a snag. Zynga's filed a countersuit, saying their rival company's claims don't hold water. READ MORE

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Zynga Releases Farmville 2, Says It Won’t Replace Original Farmville

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on September 5, 2012 AT 01:00pm

Lawsuits and rapidly-declining stock regardless, the show must go on at Zynga, where the social gaming company has launched a sequel to their most successful title yet. It's Farmville 2, now available to play on Facebook. READ MORE

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Zynga Copies Pokémon Formula With New Mobile Game, Montopia

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on September 1, 2012 AT 12:00pm

Zynga is bringing a new mobile game out of their studio, and as usual, it seems to be something less-than-original in design. Dubbed Montopia, the role-playing app features 400 monsters you can capture and evolve. READ MORE

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EA On Sims Social, Zynga Lawsuit: ‘We’re Standing Up For The Industry’

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on August 20, 2012 AT 03:12pm

Although some of the noise around Zynga's crumbling empire has waned in the last week or two, EA is still adamant that they're doing the right thing by suing their competitor over copyright infringement. As EA tells it, they're fighting for the whole industry. READ MORE

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New for iOS: Horn

By Carly Frith - DigitalNoob
Posted on August 17, 2012 AT 11:11am

That game that has been teasing us all with pretty screenshots is finally out for iOS devices. READ MORE

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Zynga Reportedly Passing Out Free Equity Stock To Pacify Employees

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on August 10, 2012 AT 11:20am

Zynga has been giving its staff generous amounts of equity stock to its full-time employees in reaction to vastly lowered earnings this year. READ MORE

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Here’s Picture Evidence Of How Zynga Rips Off Other Game Companies

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on August 8, 2012 AT 12:50pm

Do these screenshots confirm that Zynga outright copies other small gaming developers in order to mass produce quick cash-in titles? READ MORE

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Zynga Says EA Clearly Doesn’t ‘Understand’ The ‘Ville, Calls Them Copycats

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on August 6, 2012 AT 11:14am

EA's pending lawsuit against Zynga for copyright infringement is quickly turning into a public relations brawl, as both companies are now openly sniping at each other for stealing gameplay concepts and ideas from each other. READ MORE

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The Smashing Combat of Horn

By Carly Frith - DigitalNoob
Posted on August 4, 2012 AT 12:40pm

There is a mobile game on the horizon from Phosphor Games and man, it looks pretty cool. READ MORE

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EA Says Fallen Rival Zynga Has ‘Hit A Wall’ In Mobile Games Race

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on August 4, 2012 AT 09:00am

Zynga has had one of their worst weeks ever, and the resulting fallout led several competing companies to take turns at proclaiming San Francisco-based social gaming developer dead on arrival. READ MORE

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EA Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Vs. Zynga Over ‘The ‘Ville’

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on August 3, 2012 AT 11:14am

Another day, another dollar, and another major lawsuit has been filed against Zynga, the world's largest and most successful social gaming company. READ MORE

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Facebook Needs Space, Says Their Relationship With Zynga ‘May Fail’

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on August 1, 2012 AT 01:34pm

As Zynga continues its sudden financial crash, Facebook is now publicly addressing the fact that the social gaming network's revenue woes are hurting both companies. READ MORE

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Zynga Hit With First Insider Trading Charge, Four More Lawsuits Incoming

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on July 31, 2012 AT 12:02pm

Unsurprisingly, social gaming corporation Zynga is facing their first insider trading lawsuit, courtesy of New York law firm Newman Ferrara. READ MORE

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Boston Festival of Indie Games Is Awaiting Your Submission

By Amanda Marron - DigitalNoob
Posted on July 30, 2012 AT 05:58pm

Boston Festival of Indie Games is accepting independently developed video games for their showcase on September 22nd at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. READ MORE

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California Law Firm Investigating Zynga Stock Cash Out, CEO Marc Pincus

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on July 27, 2012 AT 03:49pm

Social gaming giant Zynga has had quite the tough year since going public in the stock market, with a new development seeing the company under investigation by California law firm Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe. READ MORE

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Zynga Suffers $22.8 Million Q2 2012 Loss, Pulls Down Facebook With It

By McKinley Noble, Contributing Editor
Posted on July 25, 2012 AT 09:24pm

Zynga continues to face setback after setback ever since going public and joining the stock market, this time posting a $22.8 million net loss in sales for the second quarter of their 2012 fiscal year. Ever worse, Facebook's stocks took a hit as a direct result. READ MORE

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Harmonix, Zynga Announced As Boston FIG Curators

By Evan "King Baby Duck" Bourgault
Posted on July 15, 2012 AT 09:24am

MIT Game Lab and Boston Indies' first annual Festival of Indie Games has grabbed themselves a couple of well-known curators for its inaugural event. READ MORE

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