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Zynga Laying Off 18% of Workforce, Scaling Back on Games

The future isn't looking too bright for Zynga. Although once considered an unstoppable juggernaut in the gaming world and a sure-thing investment, the mobile developer quickly hit hard times that it's been struggling to recover from.

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PANDAB3269d ago

My goodness Don, what have you done to this poor company?

gangsta_red3269d ago

Nothing it wasn't already doing to itself. Don just helped it along while collecting a fat CEO check.

Now he's Bahama bound.

gangsta_red3269d ago

It must really suck to be at the low end of the totem pole for these type of hack n slash companies that go on a super hiring spree and spend extreme money and make everyone feel like family or that they are doing good work but then turn around axe them when the party's over.

MasterCornholio3269d ago

Where Mattrick goes destruction follows.......

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Take Two's Purchase of Zynga is Practically AOL Time Warner 2: Electric Boogaloo

The acquisition of Zynga by Take-Two Interactive might become the video game industry's version of the AOL Time Warner merger.

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darthv72826d ago (Edited 826d ago )

I have to give props for the use of Electric Boogaloo reference. I don't think many young folk will even know what that is.

On topic... wasn't that where Don Mattrick went after leaving XB?

Lighter9825d ago

I'm not that young tbh. I only remember the reference from Family Guy.

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Zynga hires Matt Wolf as VP of blockchain gaming

Mobile publisher and developer Zynga, with the hiring of Matt Wolf as VP, seeks to reaffirm its intentions to enter blockchain gaming.

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Zynga is preparing for the global release of Farmville 3 after a year of soft-launch in 13 countries

After a year in soft-launch, Zynga's nostalgia-evoking title FarmVille 3 is geared for a global release with the launch of a sneak peek video

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