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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Social gaming giant Zynga, the team behind FarmVille, is taking a French developer to court because it released a game called PyramidVille.
Love-to-hate-em social game developer Zynga has posted a loss of $US85.4 million during the period of January-March 2012.
According to the resume of advertising man Alex Harvey, over the course of the past year he “Contributed concepts and copy for several new business presentations, including the successful Malibu Black and FarmVille 2 pitches”.
Apparently Zynga has also booked in for E3.
Best get ready to swat away multiple new Facebook requests…
[Alex Harvey, via superannuation]
The worst we normally get from irate psycopaths are angry/entertaining emails. For Zynga boss Mark Pincus, though, things are a lot more serious, to the point where he needs an absurd amount of security to ensure the safety of his family.
Draw Something creator OMGPOP will release a new Facebook game next week called The Street, Business Insider reports today.
This is Jason Baily, the CEO of East Side Games, with a mic in hand and some beef with Zynga, makers of Facebook games like Farmville. The world doesn’t have much of it, but it could really do with more video game stand-up comedy.
Last week, while game developers were howling that Zynga — creators of FarmVille — were the makers of a game called Dream Heights that maybe ripped off another hit game, Zynga didn’t want to talk about it.
