Zynga Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Zynga releases Running With Friends, developed with Eat Sleep Play

by Mike Schramm (May 9th, 2013)

Zynga has released a new game in the 'With Friends' series (which started back when the company acquired Words with Friends, a very popular Scrabble-like iOS game). Running With Friends is, as you can see above, not a fitness app, though that does sound fun. Instead, it's an endless running ...

Zynga announces Solstice Arena, a social MOBA coming to mobile

by Mike Schramm (May 3rd, 2013)

Back at GDC earlier this year, I was invited to what I was told was a very limited meeting with Zynga. The company, which of course made its name with social Facebook games and recently has been trying to pivot to mobile platforms like the iPhone and the iPad. Most of Zynga's games tend towards ...

Draw Something 2 available with new words, drawing tools

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 25th, 2013)

Zynga's Draw Something, the incredibly popular drawing game for iPhone, now has a follow-up: Draw Something 2. It's available now on the US App Store as an ad-supported free download or premium, ad-free version at US$1.99. It was just in February that Zynga VP and General Manager, Dan Porter, ...

Zynga unveils Battlestone, an action RPG coming to iOS soon

by Mike Schramm (Apr 10th, 2013)

Zynga's been on an interesting pivot lately. The company made a name for itself on Facebook, and most of its business is tied up in big games like Farmville and its sequel. But that audience is slowing down in growth, if not declining, which has prompted Zynga to experiment on mobile platforms ...

Daily iPhone App: Letter Rush puts a new spin on spelling games

by Mike Schramm (Apr 2nd, 2013)

Word games are probably my least favorite genre on the App Store at this point -- I think they're overused, and many companies these days are just kicking out half-baked spelling games in the hopes of reaching a large casual audience. But Letter Rush, put together by a former Zynga studio, is ...

Ex-Zynga Boston team starts new iOS studio

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2013)

Zynga closed its Boston studio late last year, and some of its former developers have created a new company called Proletariat Inc. The group is set to release its first iPhone game next week, called Letter Rush. The folks at Proletariat, Inc. aren't new to the startup game. They were ...

Draw Something turns one under Zynga's banner, celebrates 100 million downloads

by Mike Schramm (Feb 19th, 2013)

It's hard to believe that it's only been one year since Draw Something debuted on the App Store. Few apps have run the full cycle of popularity faster than Draw Something, which started as a huge word-of-mouth release before being acquired by Zynga. A year later, many iOS gamers have Draw ...

Zynga shuts down 11 apps, including PetVille and Mafia Wars 2

by Mike Schramm (Dec 31st, 2012)

Zynga has announced that it's closing 11 different games and apps, presumably just because they've failed to live up to the publisher's expectations. Perhaps the most popular app of the bunch is Petville, which at one point announced that it had over a million users. But there are a few other ...

EA sues Zynga for copyright infrigement, cites Tiny Tower

by Mike Schramm (Aug 3rd, 2012)

EA has dropped a lawsuit on Zynga's doorstep, claiming that one of Zynga's latest Facebook games, called The Ville, is essentially an infringing copy of EA's popular The Sims. You can read through the entire complaint at Scribd. What's most interesting about this whole case -- other than two ...

Zynga has 22 million daily active mobile users, announces partner program

by Mike Schramm (Jun 26th, 2012)

Social gaming giant Zynga is holding a press conference called Zynga Unleashed in San Francisco today, and while much of the news out of that conference is about the company's successful Facebook and social game business, Zynga has a huge interest and following in mobile games as well. The ...

Zynga-owned Draw Something finally gets update for sharing, undo

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2012)

Most of our stories about Draw Something since the game's launch have been business related. After it garnered tens of millions of users in its first few weeks, the company that makes the game, OMGPOP, was bought by Zynga for a whopping $200 million. But here's finally something to show after ...

The one OMGPOP employee who turned down Zynga

by Mike Schramm (Mar 27th, 2012)

When Zynga announced that it bought OMGPOP, the developer of the newly minted hit Draw Something, a lot of people shared some frustration. Zynga has earned a reputation as a less-than-popular developer out there, and the fear is that Draw Something, which currently has a relatively simple ...

Creative drawings from Draw Something

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 23rd, 2012)

Buzzfeed member Sandanito posted up several creative drawings from the hit app Draw Something. You can see a sample drawing in the image above and head over to Buzzfeed to see the rest. And if you haven't tried Draw Something, it's available for free from the iOS App Store (99-cents will get ...

Zynga acquires Draw Something dev OMGPOP for $200 million

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2012)

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how App Store fortunes are made. We've posted already about the almost overnight success of Draw Something, an app that has picked up over 30 million downloads and even beaten Zynga at its own game on Facebook. And because everyone knows that Zynga has plenty ...

Draw Something hits 30 million downloads, overtakes Zynga on Facebook

by Mike Schramm (Mar 17th, 2012)

The iOS phenomenon Draw Something has continued to blow up on an unprecedented level, and it's now reached another crazy milestone: The app has garnered 30 million downloads already, despite only being available to the public for about five weeks. And that's not all: Facebook says the app has ...