Social network games maker 
Zynga may postpone its debut on Wall Street, giving the company time to address SEC concerns and ride out the current instability among investors.
The company’s IPO, initially planned for early September, had been looked at as one of the most promising listings of the year, perhaps even moreso than LinkedIn, whose shares more than doubled when they began trading in May.
Plenty of apps are fun, 
but few are truly beautiful. Contre Jour is one of those. From its lush, yet stark, black and white art style to its soothing musical soundtrack, it’s a game you will never get tired of looking at. Fortunately, it’s also an app whose gameplay will keep you hooked. Borrowing from many familiar titles, Contre Jour is another take on physics-based puzzles. But rather than being just another knock-off like so many others, it instead tips its hat to those iPhone legends and extends on their legacy.
Your blob/hero explores a perilous series of worlds, filled with spikes, carnivorous plants, and some endless falls. Some levels are easy, but some are nail-biters (any one can be skipped, though, if it proves too challenging). It’s a game best played on the iPad, if you have that option, given the occasional need to use multitouch, but that’s nitpicking. This is an app that could quickly become another must-have for all iDevice owners.
When the first Forza 
game hit shelves in 2005, you could whip around the tracks in a Porsche. In 2007, when the sequel was released, you could, too. Ditto the 2009 installment.
But when Forza 4 comes out this October, the well-known German sports car won’t be in your garage. And you won’t believe the reason why.
There are a lot 
of ways to stream Netflix to your television these days — including, in some cases, directly through the television itself. But new data from ABI Research shows that the method of choice for most people is through game consoles.
Owners of game machines spent an average of seven to eight hours per week watching streaming video, the company found.
Halo, the biggest title 
in Microsoft’s software lineup, is venturing into unexplored territory. This fall, for the first time, the game will be playable in 3D.
“Halo: Anniversary” will be offered in stereoscopic 3D when it releases this November. The game, a remake of the original “Halo” from 10 years ago, is the first entry in the series made by a team other than Bungie Software.
Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris 
goes behind the scenes with the developers and future groom behind the Portal 2marriage proposal mod that has swept the web this week.
Stephanie Harbeson – Stephy to her friends and loved ones – wasn’t what you would call a core gamer. Sure, she played her share of casual games and would always offer to play co-op when her boyfriend Gary Hudston got something new, but no title ever really captured her – until she tried Portal 2.
Suddenly, after five years of watching Gary play, she was playing with him – taking charge, in fact, and telling him where to go. For the first time, the pair had a game they both truly enjoyed.
Sports bars are 
no longer the sole domains of football and basketball fans.
A new breed of patron is on the rise — and while they may have minimal interest in the NBA playoffs or the World Series, they get pretty rowdy when the Zerg battle the Protoss.
Don Vito Corleone 
is about to make social network game fans an offer. Think they’re going to refuse it?
Kabam, the company behind Global Warfare and Kingdoms of Camelot, and Paramount, the studio behind “The Godfather” film series, are working together to bring the classic crime saga to social network sites.
The first regular season 
kickoff won’t take place until a few minutes past 8:30 pm on Sept. 8, but for gamers, the NFL season really gets underway on Aug. 30.
That’s the day Madden NFL 12 hits store shelves. It’s also the day HR departments hate, as a disproportionate number of workers will curiously call in sick after staying up to buy the game at midnight. But as the venerable football series enters its 23rd year, how does publisher Electronic Arts plan to keep it fresh?
The Godfather is 
getting a second go-round in the video game world.
Paramount and game developer Kabam are teaming up to bring the story of the Corleones to social networks, likely including Facebook and Google+ – the first time the series has ventured into the casual gaming space.
Chris Morris: Journalist 