Co.lab is among a flurry of social impact initiatives at Zynga that have made it a leader among commercial gaming companies in promoting “gaming for good.” Through FarmVille and other hits ...

Those annoying Facebook notes asking you to help harvest Grandma’s virtual turnips may be coming to an end -- and that might be a good thing. Gaming developer Zynga, known for its immensely ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. FarmVille is finally shutting down after 11 years. Developer and publisher Zynga will no longer support the game once companies like Adobe ...

Oh, we said virtual farms, right? FarmVille has become one of Zynga's most popular online social games, and today the company is releasing a new version for digital farming addicts -- FarmVille 2.

Zynga is betting the farm on mobile devices. Once the undisputed king of Facebook-based social games like "FarmVille," the company has teetered on the brink of irrelevance as mobile-based ...

Three years after its launch, Zynga‘s FarmVille social game has 3.2 million daily active users. That’s just a tenth of its peak. But Zynga is still betting that there’s a farmer in all of us ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Not long ago, online games company Zynga looked on pace to unseat much bigger, well-established rivals as it rode the popularity of “FarmVille,” the clicking game of virtual ...

FarmVille and Mafia Wars maker proposes initial ... Wall Street Journal says search giant is in talks with Playfish, Playdom, and Zynga to bring popular games to its own new service.

While other games had tried many of the same tactics — Mafia Wars was Zynga’s top hit at the time — FarmVille was the first to become a mainstream phenomenon. Mr. Pincus said that he ...

Zynga, which counts “Farmville” and “Words with Friends” among its games, said in June that it would cut 18 percent of its staff and close some offices to cut expenses. For the latest ...

Zynga, the online game maker behind FarmVille and other popular Facebook pastimes, is going public, the latest in a crop of high-valued Internet IPOs expected after LinkedIn Corp. showed that the ...