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Analysis: Why Zynga’s IPO Might Be ‘Delayed’

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Reports this week that Zynga is holding off on its IPO are not “a sign of weakness or scandal,” according to Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris, who says it’d be reckless to go forward in current market conditions.

When reports crossed the wire Monday that Zynga might push back the launch of its initial public offering, the conspiracy theorists started buzzing. Later word that the SEC might play a role in the delay whipped ’em into a frenzy.

In fact, none of this was a sign of weakness or scandal. It was actually a sign that the folks running the business side of the game maker could a) read tea leaves and b) realize that early, enthusiastic investors might become confused, angry ones if a few things up weren’t cleared up.

Read more at Gamasutra

Zynga may delay its IPO

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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.

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog

Game Review: Words With Friends (Facebook)

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Phone app fans of word games likely already knows about Words With Friends — but adding the popular Scrabble-like game to Facebook should make dwell times on the site soar. You can play multiple opponents simultaneously. And the more games you have going, the more likely you are to stick around. At its heart, the Facebook version is basically the same as the mobile version, but adds a couple new features like Brag Feeds (letting you gloat about triple word scores) and the ability to challenge friends directly through their news feeds.  For word aficionados, this is one Facebook that will be hard to resist.

Read more at Common Sense Media

Bet the FarmVille: How Facebook games are like casinos

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Playing a game on Facebook from the comfort of your living room couldn’t be any further away from the loud, smoky casinos of Las Vegas or Atlantic City. But scratch that surface a little and you’ll find that, aside from the complimentary cocktails, the two are virtually identical.

Both are designed to keep you sitting there playing, unaware of the passing hours. Both attract millions of visitors per year.

And both rely heavily on a small percentage of those visitors to make up the majority of their income.

Read more at Yahoo! Games

Zynga’s IPO ka-ching

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The long-awaited initial public offering for Zynga is reality — but as some investors celebrate, others wonder whether the numbers being discussed in conjunction with the company are a sign that we’re in the middle of another Internet stock bubble.

Zynga, the maker of massively popular Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, filed for an IPO Friday and said it plans to raise $1 billion — – a figure that is expected to go higher by the time its shares begin trading.

Read more at Daily Variety

Analysis: Putting Zynga’s IPO In Perspective

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If we’ve learned one thing from today’s long-awaited Zynga IPO filing, it’s this: Damn, would it be nice to be Mark Pincus.

The founder and CEO of the social games juggernaut stands to make an insane amount of money when trading of the company begins on Wall St. (likely 3-4 months from now). He’s already bucks up from selling 7.8 million shares back to the company in March for $100 million – and he’s still holding another 105 million shares in his portfolio. It’s nothing short of a massive payoff for his four-year old company.

Read more at Gamasutra

Interesting takeaways from the Zynga IPO filing

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At long last, Zynga has confirmed its plans to go public.

The company on Friday filed an S-1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission, announcing plans to raise $1 billion through publicly traded shares. That wasn’t the interesting part, though. The really fascinating stuff was in the details.

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog

FarmVille maker Zynga announces plan to go public

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FarmVille is headed to Wall Street.

Zynga, the maker of that massively popular Facebook game — and several others — has filed the paperwork for an Initial Public Offering.The four-year old firm says it expects to raise $1 billion in the process, though it’s possible (and, in fact, expected) that it could offer more shares and raise more money when the stock eventually begins trading.

Read more at Yahoo! Games

Zynga files for IPO

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The biggest company in social network gaming is poised to become the biggest publicly-traded company in the video game industry.

Zynga, the maker of massively popular Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has filed the paperwork for an Initial Public Offering, where it says it hopes to raise $1 billion. That’s lower than some investors were expecting, but is likely to increase as bankers determine the offering price and how many shares should be sold.

Read more at Daily Variety

Where do things stand with the Zynga IPO? (and a few other thoughts)

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While the company hasn’t confirmed any of the whispers, everyone on Wall St. knows the Zynga IPO is coming soon.

Several news outlets this week postulated the filing could come on Wednesday, but that deadline (like so many before it) came and went. What’s taking so long?

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog