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Comment In: Omgpop founder Dan Porter walks away from Zynga [News - 04/02/2013 - 01:01]

I think the precipitous drop-off ...

I think the precipitous drop-off was actually a natural part of the game 's lifecycle. For a hot minute, EVERYONE was playing Draw Something. And then EVERYBODY burnt out on it. The brightest candles burn the fastest. r n r nI believe the sharkfin would 've happened with or without ...

Comment In: Zynga suing CityVille GM who left for Kixeye [News - 10/15/2012 - 03:15]

Things are never as black ...

Things are never as black and white as a good legal team can make them seem.

Comment In: Token video game characters distract from real stories - Anna Anthropy [News - 10/08/2012 - 07:30]

This isn 't just someone ...

This isn 't just someone 's opinion on the internet , Dave. Anna is a widely respected member of the independent games community. She 's a prolific game designer, and published author, and spoke this past weekend at the IndieCade conference this article is about the talk she gave at ...

Comment In: Opinion: Zynga's headaches - did we not see this coming? [News - 07/26/2012 - 04:06]

Social Gaming is not a ...

Social Gaming is not a newspeak phrase. It 's a phrase born out of the development side that is frequently misused and misunderstood. r n r nI 've been in the social game industry since 2008. I 've always defined social games as games designed to be played on social ...

Comment In: Newtoy's Scramble With Friends tops iPad sales chart [News - 01/23/2012 - 05:18]

I'm fairly certain that Scramble ...

I'm fairly certain that Scramble with Friends was actually developed in Zynga's San Francisco studio, rather than at Zynga with Friends formerly Newtoy in Dallas.

Comment In: A Case For A Gay Protagonist [Blog - 01/02/2012 - 07:06]

It's quite old at this ...

It's quite old at this point, but this excellent discussion reminds me a lot of a piece I wrote for Joystiq way back in '07, defining the role of the queer hero archetype: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/04/playing-dirty-the-queer-hero/

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