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Zynga Inks Deal With Hasbro to Bring FarmVille Into the Real World

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 9 at 12:40 pm PT

Zynga has partnered with Hasbro to develop a wide range of toy and gaming experiences based on Zynga’s most popular Facebook games and characters.

Zynga's FarmVille with crops whithering.

Zynga’s First Super Bowl Commercial … Kind Of

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6 at 11:55 am PT

Zynga’s popular puzzle game Words With Friends was featured in Best Buy’s Super Bowl commercial yesterday, calling attention to the game’s founders as some of the “greatest mobile innovators.”

A Pair of New Social Games: Google+ Captures Pirates, Facebook Takes EA’s Risk

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 11 at 12:41 pm PT

Google is launching a new social game today on Google+, and Electronic Arts rolled out a new title on Facebook that represents a follow-up to its big hit The Sims Social.

Alec Baldwin Addresses Words With Friends-Gate by Spelling S-N-L (Video)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 12, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

While hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, Alec Baldwin apologized for the meltdown that resulted in him getting kicked off a plane. Except that it wasn’t much of an apology at all.

RealNetwork’s GameHouse Focuses on Facebook Instead of Spinoff

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 22, 2011 at 7:50 am PT

RealNetworks is a cornucopia of businesses, but this story is about GameHouse, the Seattle company’s $100 million casual games business.

Zynga Bringing Words With Friends to Facebook

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 1, 2011 at 11:22 am PT

Zynga is bringing its very popular Words With Friends mobile application to Facebook. This is the first time the FarmVille and CityVille creator has brought a game from mobile to Facebook and not the reverse.

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Zynga Launches Hanging With Friends Mobile Game

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 6, 2011 at 8:19 pm PT

Social games maker Zynga is launching a new mobile game called Hanging With Friends, which builds off the hit game Words With Friends that it acquired late last year through its purchase of Newtoy. The latest mobile game replicates the game of hangman, much like the first game copied Scrabble. It is available now in Canada on iPhone, and then will roll out more broadly with both free and premium versions.

Top iOS Apps of 2010: Flipboard, Hipstamatic, Plants Vs. Zombies and Osmos

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 9, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

Just nine days into December and the “Best of 2010? lists are already piling up like early snow. The latest, Apple’s iTunes Rewind, highlights the store’s most popular content of the year and, while its lists of music and movies are certainly worth a look, its breakdown of popular iOS apps is most interesting.

Kindle Lover Oprah Fawns Over the iPad

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 26, 2010 at 5:06 pm PT

Is Oprah Winfrey shifting gadget loyalties? The question comes to mind following some comments by Winfrey–a prominent past booster of Amazon’s Kindle–during a short segment of her influential TV show last week that featured tech analyst Omar Wasow and the Apple iPad.

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