Cityville is a city-building simulation developed by Zynga. Players take the roll of mayor in a virtual city and develop the city through farming, construction, and collecting rent. This browser based game is free to play, but premium content can be purchased.
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Platform Facebook Publisher N/A Developer Zynga Release Date 12/02/2010

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Zynga closing Baltimore studio and two others, 'consolidating' New York offices

By Samit Sarkar on Feb 25, 2013 02.25.13

Zynga is is closing its Baltimore studio, as well as its locations in Austin and McKinney, Texas, and consolidating its New York offices, said chief operating officer David Ko in a statement on the Zynga Blog. The Austin and McKinney teams are being relocated to Zynga's offices in Dallas and North Austin, Texas. Zynga is consolidating its New York staff into its mobile studio, which consists of Draw Something developer OMGPOP and Monsterz Revenge studio Astro Ape. Zynga's McKinney, Texas, studio was formerly Newtoy Inc., the company that developed the With Friends games, including Words With Friends. Franchise co-creators Paul and David Bettner left the studio last fall. Ko said the Baltimore studio is being shuttered, but added, "We were able to relocate everyone in the Baltimore...

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Zynga is canceling CityVille 2, Party Place and The Friend Game

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Feb 05, 2013 02.05.13

Mobile games developer Zynga is canceling CityVille 2, The Friend Game and Party Place, COO David Ko announced today during the company's quarterly earnings call. According to Ko, the games, all launched last fall, will be canceled because they did not meet the company's expectations. CityVille 2, the sequel to Zynga's 2010 city-building simulator, went into closed beta last October, just one month after the launch of Farmville 2. CityVille 2 launched publicly on Facebook on Nov. 1 as a free-to-play title with additional content available for purchase, but quickly lost active users in the following months. When asked if the success of FarmVille 2 "cannibalized" the audience for CityVille 2, Ko said that Zynga is still learning from its game launches. The company plans to launch fewer...

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Zynga CEO among the worst of 2012, according to Businessweek

By Dave Tach on Dec 17, 2012 12.17.12

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus is among the worst CEOs of 2012, according to an article in Businessweek based on selections from Sydney Finkelstein, a Dartmouth College professor. Finkelstein, who teaches at the Tuck School of Business, cites the social gaming studio's 75 percent stock drop and the recent flight of employees as the kind of "rookie mistakes" that Pincus made. CEOs of Best Buy, Avon and Chesapeake Energy join Pincus on the worst of list. The FarmVille developer's troubles have surfaced several times in 2012. In July, a group of law firms began an investigation into allegations that executives sold Zynga stock before it plummeted 40 percent. In August, COO John Schappert resigned and Electronic Arts filed suit against Zynga for copyright infringement. The next month, Zynga c...

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Donate to Toys for Tots when you buy a FarmVille horse or CastleVille candy cane

By Samit Sarkar on Nov 28, 2012 11.28.12

Zynga is launching an in-game charity drive called Oh, What Fun! that will raise funds for Toys for Tots, the social gaming giant announced today. The program — which runs from today, Nov. 28, through Dec. 31 — allows players to contribute to Toys for Tots by buying in-game items or sending a donation via text message, with 100 percent of the cost going directly to the organization. It will roll out in the following seven Zynga games over the next few weeks: FarmVille: Nov. 28 to Dec. 5 Farmers send your neighbors some holiday cheer with the cheer-ewe-up horse ($1) and in return receive a festive holiday teddy tree to decorate your farm. CityVille: Nov. 29 to Dec. 31 Deck your city halls by completing toy crafting quests where you make, wrap and sell gifts to kids for the...

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Zynga's VP of business development resigns

By Tracey Lien on Nov 20, 2012 11.20.12

Zynga's vice president of business development, Jonathan Flesher, has left the social game company after three and a half years, All Things D reports. Flesher, whose last day was Nov. 9 and who worked on a number of partnership deals for Zynga including Yahoo, Google+, MSN and AOL, joins a growing list of execs departing the company. In recent weeks the company lost its chief financial officer and treasurer, and over the past few months the studio lost its chief operating officer, chief creative officer, chief technical officer of infrastructure and execs who helped run Zynga subsidiaries OMGPOP and Zynga With Friends. The news of Flesher's departure also comes just days after reports of Zynga's CEO Mark Pincus feeling "discouraged" by the company's recent downturn. Zynga recently...

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Treasure Isle and FishVille are first of 13 Zynga games to shut down

By Tracey Lien on Nov 04, 2012 11.04.12

Zynga games Treasure Isle and FishVille will be the first of 13 games to be shut down, according to announcements made on their respective Facebook pages. Back in October Zynga CEO Mark Pincus sent an internal memo to employees detailing a 5 percent cut in staff numbers, the closure of its Boston studio and that 13 underperforming games would be shut down. On Friday a message was posted both on the FishVille and Treasure Isle Facebook pages announcing the end of both games. The message is below. Greetings Fishvillers, Thank you for supporting FishVille and for being a loyal player! We're sorry to inform you that FishVille will be shutting down on December 5, 2012. In place of FishVille, we encourage you to play other Zynga games like Castleville, Chefville, Farmville 2, Mafia Wars...

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Social games are here to stay says King.com CEO

By Tracey Lien on Nov 04, 2012 11.04.12

Social games have a promising future ahead of them despite one of the industry's biggest players, Zynga, experiencing financial losses, King.com CEO Riccardo Zacconi tells Polygon. With Zynga's third quarterly earnings report suggesting that players might be losing interest in social games, Zacconi says this is far from the case. "The reality is that there are one billion users on Facebook and 230 million of those people are playing games," he says. "I think for these reasons it's the largest game platform at the moment. It's huge. It's a platform that is perfect for reaching players." Zacconi says that what the industry is seeing is more developers entering the social games space and players diversifying. Where players once only played Zynga games, they now have more options and are...

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Kixeye CEO slams Zynga as corporate theft lawsuit moves forward

By Samit Sarkar on Oct 19, 2012 10.19.12

Kixeye chief executive Will Harbin lashed out at social-gaming rival Zynga yesterday, as a San Francisco judge granted the latter company's request to continue with its lawsuit against a former employee who took confidential documents with him when he left Zynga for Kixeye in August, reports All Things D. A Kixeye spokesperson previously said the company "has nothing to do with the suit," but Harbin released a statement yesterday accusing Zynga of resorting to litigation as senior staffers continue to leave and its share price keeps dropping. He also said his company would have no interest in using information about Zynga games to copy them, since Kixeye makes different kinds of social games. Here's Harbin's full statement: Zynga is burning to the ground and bleeding top talent and...

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Zynga sues former CityVille general manager for stealing company documents

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Oct 15, 2012 10.15.12

Zynga has filed a lawsuit against former CityVille general manager Alan Patmore for allegedly stealing company documents, reports VentureBeat. Patmore allegedly copied 760 Zynga documents online before leaving the company in August to join online games developer Kixeye as its new vice president of product. Zynga filed the case with the Superior Court of the State of California, claiming the documents in Patmore's possession contain sensitive company information. The lawsuit lists the type of information included in the documents, including details for CityVille features as well as monetization assesments and plans, design documents for an unannounced game, revenue and employee compensation information, details on how Zynga chooses which game mechanics to implement, and Patmore's...

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