We all know that as soon as a game is released, there’s a flood of people looking to get ahead of everyone else. In almost all games, there are cheats, secrets or easter eggs that help you do better at the game if you know where to find them and what to do.
Won’t you be my neighbor? CityVille Hometown is Zynga’s first mobile game offered in French, Italian, German and Spanish. A completely new game, CityVille Hometown has familiar game elements players know and love from CityVille but with a unique, small town twist. New residents will embark on adventures to create a bustling town, invite friends and in-game characters to be neighbors, and build out their communities.
The company that brought us Farmville, Cityville, Mafia Wars and other hugely popular Facebook games is getting ready for their IPO. They’ve been making absurd amounts of money from their games and now they want more! Recent valuations of their company have been extremely high, so it’s likely that they’ll come out onto the public market in good shape. They’ve also been on a hiring spree for months and have been buying up real estate in San Francisco, presumably for a larger office or even their own campus.
As we’ve all been aware of in the past few months, Zynga has been buying up other game developers like crazy. This time, they’ve purchased DNA Games, the creators of the Facebook game Casino City, which was quite a popular Facebook game in itself. Zynga has not disclosed the purchase price but we can bet it was pretty attractive. With this new talent as part of the Zynga family, I’m sure we can expect to see more and more awesome games coming out soon on both Facebook and mobile platforms like the iPhone and Android.
Zynga has been hugely successful the past couple years and they’ve been trying to expand their workforce with new acquisitions. This time, they’ve bought Flock, a “social web browser” which attempts to simplify and integrate social media connections and interactions into the regular web browsing experience. Flock launched a while ago but never really picked up steam. Zynga seems to be more interested in the talent at Flock rather than the actual product.
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