He’s 
well known as a rapper, actor, and, uh, marijuana ambassador, but Snoop Dogg’s favorite hobby might well be yours: video games.
Celebrities appear in video games all the time, but few have as diverse a gaming resume as Snoop. If there’s a big time video game event going on, chances are good that he’ll show up.
Over 
the past year, no tech company has had ups and downs quite like Zynga.
In the days leading up to its debut on Wall Street last December, the social game kingpin was heralded as The Next Big Thing, an unstoppable force in an evolving industry, with proponents pointing to the enduring draw of games like Farmville, Mafia Wars, and Words With Friends. Lately, though, the company’s stock has taken a brutal beatdown and those proponents have changed their tune.
A lot of people might not know Zynga’s name, but they 
sure know its games. “Farmville,” “Mafia Wars,” and “Café World” are some of the biggest titles on Facebook – and continue to draw hundreds of millions of players per month.
That has led to massive growth at the social gaming company. And now SharePost, an exchange for shares of privately held companies, has put a valuation of $5.51 billion on Zynga. If accurate, that would make the company the second largest publisher in the video game industry – ahead of Electronic Arts and far ahead of Take-Two Interactive Software, but still less than industry leader Activision-Blizzard.
Chris Morris: Journalist 