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...Describing itself for a while as “Costco + Disney”, Pinduoduo offered games that mimicked addictive titles like Farmville and Candy Crush....
...This view recalls the vacuous FarmVille, a popular game originally released in 2009 which offered mindless and addictive gameplay but achieved massive success....
...So far, over 100 million worth of digital yuan has been issued and used in cities including Shenzhen and Suzhou....
...Beyond the Square Mile Zynga, the creator of Words with Friends and FarmVille, is making its biggest acquisition to date, paying $1.8bn for Istanbul-based Peak Games, the developer of popular puzzle titles...
...Friday: Nanofilm Technology lists on the Singapore stock exchange, the biggest IPO in the city state in years....
...Some prospective investors balked at Playrix’s distributed workforce, which is scattered across more than 100 cities, many of them in eastern Europe. “Now of course, that’s changing....
...Another night of violence and looting in cities across America saw protesters defy curfews and clash with police....
...Business Zynga, the creator of the Words with Friends and FarmVille online games, is making its biggest acquisition to date, paying $1.8bn for Peak Games, at a time when video games are booming under lockdown...
...“IVP is excited to support Niantic in building the future of AR,” said IVP partner Sandy Miller, who previously backed Supercell and FarmVille creator Zynga....
...These were once popular with City of London traders for making personal wagers on currencies and the like....
...As a teenager from a small town outside Tampere, a city of 200,000 in southern Finland, she played tennis for the national team....
...Mr Trump suffered one immigration-related setback last week, when a federal judge rejected his plan to halt funding for so-called sanctuary cities....
...The company pitches its concept as “playing FarmVille in real life”, referring to a popular online game....
...The Californian company, whose games include FarmVille, Words With Friends and Zynga Poker, has been outflanked by the likes of King’s Candy Crush Saga and Supercell’s Clash of Clans....
...Mr Romero, whose address is listed as a luxury office block in Belize City, acquired his majority stake in the company in February, according to last month’s filings....
...This is the business model behind King, maker of Candy Crush, and Zynga, creator of FarmVille....
...The Sims, an open-ended PC and console game in which players manage the daily lives of a family, was a precursor to Zynga’s Farmville and its city, restaurant and fairground-themed successors....
...It currently has no way of making money from gamers who are playing FarmVille and Mafia Wars on their mobile phones instead of on desktop computers....
...a more challenging environment on the Facebook web platform” – a comment that has sparked debate over whether it is just Zynga that is in decline or the entire casual gaming genre of building farms and cities...
...This is very different from the headquarters – in a trendier part of town – of Zynga, developer of games such as Farmville or Cityville in which players harvest crops, build cities and complete puzzles....
...“What’s been very exciting has been the changing opportunities and the technology renaissance in New York city.”...
...Listen carefully in the City of London and, very faintly, you may be able to hear the bell ringing for round two of Facebook’s simmering battle with Apple over mobile apps....
...The maker of CityVille and FarmVille for mobile devices and social networks such as Facebook will seek to raise up to $1bn by selling 100m shares in a projected range of $8.50 to $10 a share....
...This is beginning to sound like CityVille, the Zynga social game in which players build the city of their dreams....
...Facebook game, Restaurant City....
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