Zynga

Zynga's NaturalMotion studio partners with Disney for new Star Wars game

Publisher will also take over mobile tower defense game Star Wars: Commander

Zynga Q2 sees bookings jump 12%

Social publisher beats guidance with $233.9 million in non-GAAP sales, net losses of just over $900,000

Zynga splashes $250 million on Gram Games acquisition

But Frank Gibeau tells GamesIndustry.biz recovering firm is “not on a buying spree”, pips Merge Dragons as new “forever franchise”

Zynga posts $5.6m profit last quarter after predicting $9.5m loss

Meanwhile, company founder Mark Pincus reduces personal voting power from 70 per cent to ten per cent

Zynga returns to full-year profits for the first time in seven years

Net income up $138.4m year-on-year to $26.6m, daily active users reaches four-year high at 20 million

Pincus: For new mobile devs, it's organic growth or bust

At Slush, Zynga founder Mark Pincus advised mobile startups to set a "high bar" for organic growth before investing in advertising and UA

Zynga looks to solidify newfound profitability

Developer building a portfolio of card games to keep players engaged for “a very long period of time"

Zynga turnaround continues, company buys Peak Games' card studio for $100m

Zynga has now posted two consecutive profitable quarters for the first time since going public

Zynga to close Oxford offices

Social gaming company hopes to relocate staff to Brighton, London after winding down NaturalMotion middleware business

Zynga's turnaround in full effect with $5.1m profit in Q2

90% of Zynga's audience now comes from mobile, CEO Frank Gibeau stressed to us

Words With Friends TV show in the works

Zynga partners with MGM to bring long-running mobile hit to the not-quite-as-small screen

Zynga scraps new Mafia Wars mobile title

Soft-launched game canned after just three months as publisher didn't believe it would be “a successful forever franchise”

Zynga apologizes for random DLC pricing experiment

Publisher charged players between $5 and $35 for Fast and the Furious tie-in car in CSR Racing 2

Zynga and NetEase bringing Dawn of Titans to China

High-end free-to-play mobile game due for Eastern release by the end of the year

Zynga funds 3 year social game design course at USC

Class will focus on "Zynga's design methodology" and promote diversity, inclusivity

NaturalMotion founder Torsten Reil leaves Zynga

COO David Byrne will act as interim boss

Zynga CEO: "We'll be profitable in the very near future"

Q1 2017 loss narrowed to $9.5m as Frank Gibeau tells us that Zynga will be "in the same conversation with the Activisions and EAs" of the world

Zynga buys four Solitaire games for $42.5 million

Harpan's two-man team is richly rewarded for its social card titles

Zynga ends 2016 with little improvement

Bookings are up and social gaming company touts progress in the turnaround, but net losses for the year still top $108 million

Zynga sues two former employees over data theft

Both creators now at rival firm Scopely