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Apple reveals top 50 apps of all time, counting down to 50 billion downloads

By Alexa Ray Corriea on May 03, 2013 05.03.13

Nearly 50 billion apps have been download from Apple's App Store, the company announced today. To commemorate the approaching milestone, Apple revealed the 25 most downloaded apps in both the paid and free categories. Topping the paid apps list is the original Angry Birds, followed by Halfbrick Studios' Fruit Ninja, Lima Sky's Doodle Jump, Cut the Rope and Angry Birds Seasons. Words With Friends sits at number eight, while Angry Birds Space is tenth and PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies is number 12. Angry Birds Star Wars also makes the list at number 18, and Minecraft Pocket Edition takes the twenty-third spot. Facebook sits at number one on the free apps list, followed directly by Pandora Radio, Instagram, YouTube, Skype and Words With Friends Free. Twitter's application is eighth with T...

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Zynga reports first-quarter fiscal 2013 revenue down 18 percent, net income up

By Samit Sarkar on Apr 24, 2013 04.24.13

Zynga brought in $263.6 million of revenue, an 18 percent year-over-year drop, during the first quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, the company announced today in an earnings report. Zynga's fiscal year runs alongside the calendar year, so today's financial report covers the three-month period that ended March 31. The financial breakdown listed revenue from online games at $229.6 million, a 22 percent year-over-year drop, and advertising revenue at $34 million, a 21 percent jump. The decrease in online game revenue is likely tied to the shrinking user base for Zynga's games — daily active users were down 21 percent from the same period in 2012, monthly active users dropped 13 percent and monthly unique payers decreased 30 percent. Based on daily active users, Zynga still had three of...

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Oculus Rift creator and other industry experts brainstorm about movement in virtual reality

By Griffin McElroy on Mar 08, 2013 03.08.13

During a SXSW Interactive panel titled Virtual Reality: The Holy Grail of Gaming, Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey and a handful of industry veterans tackled an interesting issue: How do you simulate actual movement in a virtual reality space? Luckey outlined a few possible solutions, which ranged from possible to wildly unreasonable. The most likely solution would be an omnidirectional treadmill, upon which players could walk to move themselves in-game without the use of a traditional controller. There are psychological solutions, including redirected walking — a method of tricking your brain into thinking your body is turning and redirecting itself when it is, in fact, moving in a straight line. Using that method, Luckey said, the simulation could make a 20-foot room seem more or...

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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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Words with Friends creator believes Ouya will usher in a new era for living room gaming

By Brian Crecente on Feb 15, 2013 02.15.13

Bettner started up Newtoy in 2008 with his brother, David, spurred by a love of chess and a lack of time to play it. Shortly thereafter the fledgling studio released Chess with Friends for iOS devices. By 2010, Newtoy had released Words with Friends, been noticed by Zynga and had been purchased. In the years with Zynga the small studio, rebranded Zynga with Friends, released four more title. "We sold the company and told ourselves that we would be happy sharing our vision," Paul Bettner said. But working for someone else never completely clicked for Paul Bettner. "For whatever reason, maybe the way I like to develop games is unique, it didn't work out for me to be reporting to someone else," Bettner said. "I started feeling desperate to be back on my own again." So as 2012 wrapped...

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Double Fine Adventure and The Cave coming to Ouya

By Michael McWhertor on Feb 06, 2013 02.06.13

Developer Double Fine Productions will bring two of its adventure games, Ron Gilbert's The Cave and Kickstarter-funded Double Fine Adventure, to the Android-powered Ouya console. Ouya founder Julie Uhrman announced that Tim Schafer and company would bring Double Fine Adventure, codenamed Reds, to the Kickstarter-funded console during her DICE talk "The Revenge of the TV." She also announced that Words With Friends creator Paul Bettner would develop titles for the Ouya platform. Uhrman claims more than 450 titles are currently in development for Ouya. Double Fine producer Greg Rice later confirmed to Polygon that The Cave would also come to the platform, though development on the Ouya version has not yet started. The Ouya console and Double Fine Adventure were standout Kickstarter...

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Kixeye expands to British Columbia, appoints former Zynga director as GM

By Tracey Lien on Dec 07, 2012 12.07.12

San Francisco-based social game developer Kixeye opened a studio in Victoria, British Columbia this week, appointing former Zynga Director of Development Clayton Stark as general manager. Prior to joining Kixeye, Stark had worked on developing and restarting the 8.0 browser for Netscape and was the CTO and VP of Engineering at Flock, a company that developed a social game browser that was later acquired by Zynga. After the acquisition, Stark became the social game giant's director of development. "I certainly wouldn't say that Zynga isn't creative, though — they basically created the social games industry." Speaking to Polygon, Stark says that the transition from Zynga to Kixeye has been relatively smooth and, despite the two companies being publicly critical of each other, he...

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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 brings Ruby Blast to iOS, Android version to follow

By Tracey Lien on Nov 15, 2012 11.15.12

Zynga's match-three puzzle game, Ruby Blast, is now available on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, with an Android version coming soon. Ruby Blast – a puzzle game where players match three or more gems in order to help protagonist Ruby dig deeper and deeper into the earth to recover ancient artifacts – will join other Zynga games that have already expanded onto mobile devices like Words With Friends and Gems with Friends. In addition to Ruby Blast, Zynga's bubble shooter, Bubble Safari, will also be coming to mobile devices sometime in the near future.

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