The San Francisco City Attorney's office is investigating alleged "illegal marketing tactics" practiced by Zynga to promote Mafia Wars: Las Vegas with "acts of sidewalk vandalism".
Zynga launched Las Vegas, an expansion to its popular social game Mafia Wars, earlier this month, promoting the release with viral campaigns in several cities. Its ads included stickers of fake $25,000 bills on sidewalks, as well as decals of broken windows left on car windshields, each inviting passersby to visit the game's site.
The acquisition of Zynga by Take-Two Interactive might become the video game industry's version of the AOL Time Warner merger.
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?
Mobile publisher and developer Zynga, with the hiring of Matt Wolf as VP, seeks to reaffirm its intentions to enter blockchain gaming.
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
