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

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 Director Mark Turmell, who was also the lead […]

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

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 its blog, it also registered several domain names through the brand protection company […]

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

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 reader sent me a tip that a Facebook page was online, […]

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

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 registered through the internet brand protection company MarkMonitor that Zynga regularly uses […]

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Zynga registers slew of domain names following announcement of new games

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 2. The domains include typical defensive registrations like Dreamzoosucks.com and wwwzyngabingo.com, […]