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"Your move, Mark." EA announces they are suing Zynga for copyright infringement, claims "The Ville" is a clone of Maxis' "The Sims Social". This is kinda a big deal. Zynga's somewhat loose respect for intellectual property of game design has been

Live teams are harsh I have occasionally gently mocked the budding cult of personality around MMO developer emeritus Scott Hartsman, but that cult exists for a reason: not only did he lead the effective resurrection of SOE's flagship Everquest 2 after a disappointing launch into the teeth of

Stock market's kinda rough today. Zynga loses over a third of its value in one day after a disastrous earnings call. But take heart! Zynga has a plan. Can you guess what it is? Hint: if you're going to go evil, go full metal evil.

No matter how long my vacations from blogging may be, and no matter how hacktastic my writing can become, I will never write anything as awful as this.

"Zynga is not a very subtle company, are they?" -- anonymous Eric Schiermeyer, a co-founder of Zynga, an online game company and maker of huge hits like FarmVille, has said he has helped addict millions of people to dopamine, a neurochemical that has been shown to be released