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The DeanBeat: Zynga’s new strategy reveals the agony and the ecstasy of mobile games

Zynga’s Don Mattrick and Clive Downie describe their strategy for 2014 and today’s results (excerpts)

Zynga’s layoff of 314 employees — 15% of its workforce — shows the tough times aren’t over

Zynga stock price up 23% after-hours even while the publisher continues to leak monthly active users

Zynga plans to acquire CSR Racing developer NaturalMotion for $527 million

Analyst: Brazil, Russia, India, and China as well as Steam will help PC gaming top $24 billion by 2017

Updated: Zynga to finally shut down one of its oldest games, YoVille

Now you can make in-game purchases in Farmville 2 (and other Zynga games) with Bitcoin

Holiday helping: Zynga’s Farmville players raise $1M in 20 days to feed the hungry

Zynga’s Mark Pincus asked Obama to pardon NSA leaker Edward Snowden

Zynga teams up with Elvira, ‘Duck Dynasty,’ and ‘Sex and the City’ for celebrity-endorsed slots game

Jens Begemann on Wooga’s plan to create million-dollar mobile blockbusters (interview)

How China’s Perfect World plans to be a player in mobile games — and the West

Zynga’s share price up 10% after a ‘less terrible than expected’ third quarter

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Making the PlayStation 4 controller, Apple’s new iPad Air, and GamesBeat 2013

Zynga expects to be profitable for full fiscal year, so to speak

Zynga losses aren’t bad, but the decline in social gamers continues

Zynga announces a hiring, not a departure: DeNA West’s Clive Downie is its new chief operating officer

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Ubisoft delays Watch Dogs, times are still uneasy at Zynga, and mobile games soar in value

Analyst: Zynga’s new-CEO honeymoon could end soon as it continues to bleed users

Zynga cofounder leaves the social-game developer

GamesBeat weekly roundup: GTA Online’s rocky launch, Mojang revealed, and going to League of Legends school

Founder of struggling social gaming giant Zynga Mark Pincus ‘bored’ with games

Zynga officially withdraws bid to get gambling license in Nevada

Ads account for up to 30 percent of social-game revenue (exclusive)

Why Schappert’s Shiver Entertainment hired two top game veterans

Wargaming’s Austin office doubling in size to focus on analytics

Zynga launches CastleVille Legends on iOS

Ex-Zynga exec John Schappert starts new game startup with investment from Nexon

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox One adds self-publishing, Nintendo turns a profit despite Wii U

Apple changing app store ranking: adding ratings, now updating every 3 hours

Words With Friends is now fluent in 7 additional languages

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Call of Duty multiplayer (it has women!), Xbox One does not require Kinect

Steam, GamersGate summer sales help digital game revenues reach $1.1 billion in July

Zynga departures continue under new chief exec Don Mattrick

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Quake creator joins Oculus VR, Amazon may create an Android console

Jon Radoff on the tricks of social gameplay in Game of Thrones: Ascent (interview)

Zynga launches a new match-3 game on Facebook: Fairy Tale Twist
