It’s fair to say my brother and I haven’t followed a normal path to making games (if there is any). I have a PhD in Bioinformatics and have spent most of my academic career studying molecular biology and computer science. As of about four years ago, I was probably the furthest you could be from making a game. I was studying single-celled organisms called Archaea, which are mostly known for their ability to thrive in extreme environments like acidic lakes or hyperthermal vents on the bottom of the ocean. My younger brother Thomas was still working on his PhD in the same field. We tend to like the same stuff, and the same went for video games when

It Girl developer CrowdStar is bringing its games to China and Korea’s mobile markets, courtesy of new partnerships with Tencent and Gamevil.

Chinese games portal Tencent will release localized versions of Top Girl and Happy Peeps: Tower Town for iOS devices, while Gamevil will localize and distribute Top Girl Android to South Korea. Penetrating these markets can be difficult feat for social developers, particularly because Facebook isn’t  legal in China and doesn’t have much penetration in South Korea. CrowdStar tells us the games will launch in China and South Korea sometime this summer.

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Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg fielded questions about the No. 1 social network’s slowing revenue growth and its $1 billion purchase of Instagram as he kicked off a cross-country roadshow to promote the company’s $10 billion initial public offering.

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Put down your smartphones and iPads for just a sec. I’ve got some big news. Today I’m excited to tell you about a new addition to the Zynga family, OMGPOP. This New York-based developer of social mobile games has recently received a lot of attention for their smash hit Draw Something. It’s been downloaded over 30 million times. Every second three thousand people draw something in 84 countries throughout the world. By the time you finish this paragraph, there’s a good chance 30,000 drawings have been created – many of them LOTR or Star Wars related.

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Less than a year after announcing its partnership together, Tencent has honored Zynga with two prestigious awards: Excellent Partner and Top 10 App for Zynga City.  The two awards are a milestone for Zynga, which is one of the first international social game developers to launch a game on the Tencent Open Platform.

Zynga launched Zynga City beta on the Tencent platform in the autumn of 2011,

The wait is over! We’ve listened to the demands, the pleas and gentle reminders; Scramble With Friends is now available for Android devices on Google Play.

Scramble With Friends is available now for free on Google Play for Android devices and comes bundled with a home screen widget allowing players to create a new game or view the status of your in-progress games. 

The game can also be found on the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch.

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Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA), the world’s leading provider of social game services, today announced three new Zynga Platform partners: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., Playdemic and Rebellion. The Zynga Platform, announced on March 1, is a new platform designed to bring players more people to play with and more ways to play. Platform partners will have access to the 240 million monthly active users who currently play Zynga games by publishing and promoting their games across the Zynga network. In addition, Zynga will enable partners to tap into channels and features that increase social engagement, analytics that measure and drive social, and back end technology that ensures scalability and availability.

“From Konami, one of the most esteemed game creators of our time, to the