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Zynga Aiming To Conquer Mobile Next

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-can-run-but-you-can't-hide dept.

donniebaseball23 writes "Zynga's presence in mobile gaming is nowhere near its dominance of social gaming on Facebook, but according to chief designer Brian Reynolds, Zynga's looking to change that. '[Mobile] is something that we actively care about, think about. It's the major place where we think the future is,' Reynolds said, adding, 'The reason that Zynga isn't ginormous on mobile yet is because the friction of social networking is still high on mobile.'"

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  1. Which mobile game will they release first? by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    AngryBirdsVille? CatPhysicsVille? CubeRunnerVille?

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    1. Re:Which mobile game will they release first? by DurendalMac · · Score: 2

      Insightful is deserved. Zynga is a godawful plagiarist. Makes me wonder if they'll get sued that much faster for cloning someone else's game.

    2. Re:Which mobile game will they release first? by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 2

      The funny thing on the iPhone their crappy "games", such as Mafia Wars, Street Racing, Vampires, etc. are not even real games. If you can't win nor lose, you don't have a game, you have a toy! Hell, you can't even "restart" if you want to try another "style"

  2. They can't be lazy. by FSWKU · · Score: 3, Informative

    If they want to succeed in the mobile market, they can't afford to be lazy when it comes to Android development. As it is, the Android version of Words With Friends is nothing but a shoddy port of the iPhone title. It's bloated, slow, has no real options, push notifications seldom work (if at all), chews through your battery life like it's a Sega GameGear even when running just the background service (God help you if you leave the actual interface running), and it doesn't even use the menu button properly (read; at all)...

    If this is what they're bringing to the mobile market, no thank you.

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  3. Who cares? by NeuralAbyss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is this relevant to 'news for nerds'? A startup with overenthusiastic PR says they're "aiming at mobile"... but no concrete plans or implementation?

    Call me back when it's something worth giving a shit about.