Zynga sports games like football may be coming soon as more hints are dropped

January 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
Zynga football

If you've been itching to play sports games developed by social gaming giant Zynga, they may actually be closer to launch than you think.  In the past 12 months, the company has made moves indicating social sports games may be under development, like the hiring of EA Sports Creative … [Read more...]

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Zynga goes on domain buying spree for new Scramble with Friends app

January 7, 2012 by 1 Comment
Scramble with Friends

On Thursday, Zynga announced the launch of the mobile social game Scramble With Friends, saying, "Scramble with Friends is a fast-paced, fun-packed game that combines the brain bending experience of Zynga’s original Scramble."  On the same day the social gaming company announced the game on … [Read more...]

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Zynga goes on record about new iOS game by filing Forestville trademark

December 9, 2011 by 2 Comments
Forestville by Zynga

I first broke the news last week about Zynga developing a new "Ville" game after several Forestville domains were privately registered through MarkMonitor, an internet brand protection company Zynga regularly uses. While I had nothing more to work on than new domain registrations, an anonymous … [Read more...]

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Small preview of unannounced iOS game by Zynga called Forestville

December 5, 2011 by 3 Comments
Forestville by Zynga

Over the weekend, I wrote about Zynga registering several new domain names for a possible up-and-coming game called Forestville, which the company has not yet announced.  Today, an anonymous reader has tipped me to the fact there is a Facebook page that has been online almost a week, which … [Read more...]

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Zynga has plans to launch Forestville, tipped off by domain name registrations

December 3, 2011 by 11 Comments
Zynga Forestville

Zynga recently launched Castleville, but now the social gaming giant appears to have plans to launch a new game called Forestville. This week Zynga registered several domains with the word Forestville in the name like ForestvillewithFriends.com and ForestvilleZynga.com. All of the names were … [Read more...]

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Zynga registers slew of domain names following announcement of new games

October 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Dream Zoo

On the day Zynga announced a "gaggle of new social games", it registered well over 150 domain names as part of its intellectual property strategy. The defensive domain registrations center around Project Z, Castleville, Zynga Bingo, Zynga Casino, Hidden Chronicles, Dream Zoo and Mafia Wars … [Read more...]

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Zynga goes after ZyngaGiftcards.com and ZyngaWorld.com domain names

February 3, 2011 by 5 Comments
Zynga Gift Cards

Zynga has filed two domain name complaints concerning zyngagiftcards.com and zyngaworld.com with WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization.  The complaints were filed today for ZyngaWorld.com and yesterday for ZyngaGiftcards.com.  Zynga's Domain Dispute Track Record Zynga has had … [Read more...]

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