Holy smokes! Zynga, the social gaming company behind Farmville, is currently valued at $5.51 billion by SharePost, a company that trades privately held stock. By contrast, Electronic Arts, a gaming company almost everyone knows is valued at just $5.16 on the Nasdaq. Facebook is on fire, but really, $5 billion for spammy-little-timewasters? “The valuation is more »

FarmVille rolled into the App Store back on June 24th and at the time there was a sense of happiness and anger both at the same time. Of course, some of those were overwhelmed by the sudden suck of time wasting that had begun. And the anger came from those sporting an iPad who were more »

Watch out Farmville, here’s comes the wild frontier! Zynga, makers of the wildly popular Facebook game Farmville have a launched a new game called Frontierville.Unlike Farmville Frontierville ventures into RPG territory. Players set up a homestead and work to set up a frontier town. In response to user complaints that there isn’t enough to do more »

Should your schedule not allowed you to view the meticulous live blogging events from 12:00pm CST to nearly 2:00pm, here are a few highlights and notes you should know before walking up to the water cooler this morning. iPad Updates The iPad has sold 2 million units in three months, despite only being on sale more »

Well it definitely took them long enough but Farmville is finally planned for release to an iPhone near you. Maybe they were just waiting for Jobs to give in and allow Flash on iDevices. But anyways, today at WWDC, Zynga took the stage to show the first public images of one of Facebook’s original addicting more »

Zynga and Yahoo! have announced a partnership that will bring Zynga’s wildly popular social games to Yahoo’s millions of users. The details were not announced but users can expect to see the games start appearing on Yahoo sometime in the fall. It’s not known which games will be seen, but unless Facebook has some kind more »

Social game maker Zynga has announced that it is planning its own social gaming site and is prepared to yank its popular games off of Facebook if its demands aren’t meant. The company, which makes popular social games like Mafia Wars, YoVille, FarmVille, and Café World, is angry over Facebook’s requirement that game developers use more »