During today's Zynga conference call it was announced that the company would be closing CityVille 2, the incredibly promising The Friend Game and the mobile Party Place, three recent releases that performed below expectations.
Zynga's hugely popular CityVille, once one of Facebook's favourite games, will close at the end of next month.
Between his work at Zynga engineering CityVille and FarmVille 2, and his current work as founder of indie mobile sim studio SomaSim Games, it's safe to say that Robert Zubek has a good handle on what's coming up next on the tech side of the games industry.
FleshEatingZipper writes: We’ve come up with so many different ways to brand them, but nothing so distinctive as to accurately pinpoint what kind of a game they are until you’ve already invested far too much time – or potentially given out your credit card number. From the same guy who brought you the November Release Death Schedule – or NeRDS – to describe the onslaught of games during the holiday comes MOMCOT, the new name for what we commonly call Zynga-likes.
