1）Sitepoint最新数据显示，在智能手机上浏览移动网页的用户人数多于IE6和IE7用户的总和：2011年11月份，移动互联网的用户比率为6.95%，而IE6和IE7用户仅占6.49%。

关于互联网浏览器的其他发现包括，谷哥Chrome首次超越火狐，成为排名第二的浏览器；浏览器发展趋势已从桌面电脑转向移动领域。

mobile browser(from readwriteweb)

在移动浏览器领域居于首位的是Opera Mini/Mobile，在移动市场中占比22.49%，比10月份增长近1个百分点。居于其次的是Android，占比20.41%，第三名是 iPhone，占比19.53%。诺基亚浏览器占比11.94%，黑莓仅占8.2%，这两者比例均低于10月份水准。

但需要注意的是，浏览器领域仍在不断变化，虽然移动浏览器已超过IE6和IE7，但IE仍是主导世界的浏览器，其用户在11月份占比40.63%，其中多为IE8用户。

2）据Zynga最近发布的30分钟路演视频内容显示，该公司首席运营官John Schappert在发言内容中指出，Zynga游戏在发布前其实只完成了四分之一，并透露公司目前开发新游戏的人员数量远超原有游戏项目（游戏邦注：该公司目前总人数接近3000）。也就是说，目前致力于开发《CastleVille》、《Zynga Casino》、《Hidden Chronicles》的人员远多于《FarmVille》、《Mafia Wars》和《Zynga Poker》工作人员。

Zynga talents(from games)

3）金融服务公司Discover最近与《FarmVille》扩展游戏The Winter Wonderland合作，在后者植入Discover品牌内容，并为其信用卡用户提供相关优惠服务。

虽然Zynga已在多款游戏中推出品牌营销活动，The Winter Wonderland才是其首款完全以品牌内容为中心的游戏。

discover-zynga-winter-wonderland(from ibtimes.com)

4）手机游戏公司Glu Mobile日前宣布其iOS、Android游戏《Bug Village》（由Mandreel开发）登陆Google+平台（但目前尚未入驻Facebook）。

该游戏采用了3D图像和有趣的动画元素，支持玩家在这款《CityVille》风格的游戏中装饰和管理昆虫的世界，但目前的页面载入时间过长，有待进一步完善。

Bug Village(from games)

5）匈牙利开发商Zen Studios最近发布其首款iOS游戏，即从PlayStation 3平台移植而来的弹球模拟游戏《Zen Pinball》。

该游戏采用免费增值模式，游戏中的桌面完全融入了多边形3D图像，提供了8个不同的视角供玩家选择。其桌面含有许多互动元素、动画效果、光线、音效等，并支持玩家解琐Game Center成就系统，与世界其他玩家比拼分数。

Zen Pinball(from insidemobileapps)

《Zen Pinball》是一款iPhone、iPad和iPod Touch通用版游戏，最近在App Store免费下载游戏中排在第129名。

（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

1）More People Browse On Mobile Than Use IE6 & IE7 Combined

By Jon Mitchell

The latest data on browser trends from Sitepoint show that more people browse the Web on smartphones than use Internet Explorer 6 and 7 combined. Those two old clunkers have been the bugbears of Web developers for years, requiring sites to degrade as nicely as possible to that least common denominator of browsers. But it’s a new world now; 6.95% of Web activity in November 2011 was on mobile browsers, and only 6.49% was on IE 6 or 7.

As Richard MacManus pointed out this week, there are lots of interesting trends in Web browsing lately. Another big story is that Google’s Chrome (our consumer product of the year) has eclipsed Mozilla Firefox as the number 2 browser for the first time. But the shift from desktop to mobile is the real trend. The days of developing for the worst desktop browser are drawing to an end, and having the best possible mobile site has become a priority.

The dominant mobile browser is Opera Mini/Mobile, with 22.49% of the mobile market, up almost 1% from last month. There’s a reason it made our top 10 mobile products of the year. Behind Opera, Android (20.41%) and iPhone (19.53%) are neck and neck. Android was slightly down, iPhone was slightly up. These are followed by the Nokia browser (11.94%) and Blackberry (8.2%), both of which are down for the month, and the long tail makes up the rest.

Mobile has to be a priority now, and not just for developers and designers. Google has put lots of muscle into mobilizing the Web for site owners and advertisers. In June, it launched a Google Sites tool that lets anyone build a free mobile site from a set of templates. In September, it began to incentivize AdWords advertisers who have good mobile sites. And at the beginning of November, Google launched a PR blitz called GoMo to drive business owners to mobilize their websites. It’s in site owners’ and advertisers’ interests alike to make sure everyone goes mobile now.

The world of browsers is in flux. Chrome has passed Firefox, and mobile is bigger than IE 6 and IE 7. Internet Explorer still rules the world, mind you. 40.63% of Web use in November was on IE, most of it on IE 8. But there was a surge of 5.7%, the biggest growth in share of any browser last month, toward IE 9+, showing that people are upgrading their browsers at last.（source:readwriteweb）

2）Zynga has more people working on new games than existing ones

by Joe Osborne

So, that’s what happened to Mafia Wars 2, eh? Let’s not jump ahead of ourselves, but that’s what Zynga COO John Schappert is telling potential investors as the company begins its IPO (initial public offering) road show. The company posted a video of the same presentation it is putting on for investors across the country–all 30 minutes of 51 mind-numbingly boring slides.

But there are some juicy bits to the talk provided by Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, Schappert and CFO David Wehner. (The video, which you can find here, is worth watching to see Mark Pincus talking to a teleprompter alone.) For one, five of the FarmVille maker’s top executives come from second place competitor EA. And that doesn’t even include former EA CCO Bing Gordon, who now serves on the social game giant’s board.

After Pincus talked up his company’s top games, Schappert took the stage and revealed that Zynga’s games are only about one-quarter finished before they launch. This may be common knowledge to some players (ahem, FarmVille’s beta period), but to hear that releasing technically unfinished games is part of the developer’s core strategy is nevertheless surprising.

Later, Schappert dropped this bomb: The company has more people working on new games than existing ones. In other words, the developer has more staff focusing on games like CastleVille and upcoming games like Zynga Casino and Hidden Chronicles than, say, FarmVille and Mafia Wars and Zynga Poker.

Granted, the company has nearly 3,000 employees, but it’s odd to hear that the company is more worried about its new games than it is the games that have historically made it the most money–$1.5 billion in revenue in the past four years, to be exact. With games like Pioneer Trail and Mafia Wars 2 in decline, it makes one wonder exactly where the line between “new game” and “existing game” is drawn within Zynga.（source:games）

3）Discover Sponsors FarmVille Expansion – Financial services company Discover has teamed with Zynga to sponsor its own branded FarmVille expansion. The Winter Wonderland Expansion opens to the public on December 5th and includes branded content and financial offers for Discover cardmembers. While Zynga has run plenty of promotions in its games, Winter Wonderland is the first completely branded expansion the developer has authorized.（source:insidesocialgames）

4）Bug Village is the third game on Google+ that isn’t on Facebook

by Joe Osborne

And if you even try to say Sudoku Puzzles counts, we’re no longer friends. Glu Mobile has announced that its iOS and Android village-builder Bug Village has hit Google+, and it’s the first of many to hit Google’s social games platform in the coming months. Bug Village is essentially CityVille, but with insects rather than humans: Players decorate and manage a colony of bugs.

And that’s about all you need to know, as upon first attempt at loading Bug Village, this writer’s entire computer choked up. It looks like Glu Mobile and developer Mandreel have some … bugs to work out. (Hey, you lob ‘em, and we’ll go for the fences.) Regardless, the publisher appears bullish on Google+ as a viable social games platform.

“Glu is committed to Google and connecting with gamers around the world in new ways. Google+ has already demonstrated momentum as an intuitive social platform,” Glu Mobile CEO Niccolo de Masi said in a release. “We are excited to offer Bug Village on Google+ and look forward to introducing additional titles.”

When the game finally does load, you’ll likely be impressed by its 3D graphics and fun animations. (Though, we’re not sure system-locking load sessions are worth that.) And the above screen is what you’ll be looking at for the next hour, if you don’t want to pay up. A gut reaction, sure, but having to wait an hour before for something to finish immediately upon starting the game is not the best first-time player experience.

Google+ seems to have had trouble gaining steam with its games platform, but has recently garnered support from successful social game developers including Digital Chocolate, Vostu and Spry Fox.

However, it’s going to take a lot more than simply more games, if Google wants to compete on Facebook’s level in the games space.（source:games）

5）Zen Pinball from Zen Studios Makes the Move from PlayStation 3 to iOS

Randy Nelson

Hungarian developer Zen Studios has launched its first iOS app, a conversion of its popular PlayStation 3 pinball simulation Zen Pinball. Launched on November 30, the game is free-to-play and includes one table, with the option to download more in-app.

Zen Pinball utilizes fully polygonal 3D graphics in creating its tables, allowing players to choose from eight different camera angles depending on their preference. It can be played in portrait or landscape mode, as well, switching on the fly depending on the device’s orientation. Its tables feature many interactive elements, animations, lights, and sounds and each includes its own Game

Center achievements to unlock.

Game Center integration also makes it possible for players to compare their high scores to their friends’, along with other players on a global scale. It also features specific friend challenges that encourage players to beat the high scores of their Game Center friends. In terms of local multiplayer, the game lets players pass a single device around in an attempt to best each others high scores in the Hot Seat mode.

Like the console release, Zen Pinball is built to support DLC table add-ons. It comes bundled with the Sorcerer’s Lair table, which is available in the PlayStation 3 and Android versions of the game. Available for download now are two Marvel Comics tables: Wolverine and Captain America. These tables cost $1.99 a piece. Zen Studios plans to release new tables as paid DLC on a regular basis, as it has frequently done with the console release.

Zen Studios, founded in 2000, is based in Budapest, Hungary, and was previously known as RUBIK Interactive. It has developed games for multiple console and handheld platforms, with notable releases including Zen Pinball for PlayStation 3, Pinball FX and FX2 for Xbox Live Arcade, The Punisher: No Mercy for PS3, and Mushroom Men: The Rise of the Fungi for Nintendo DS. It has also just released a Nintendo 3DS version of Zen Pinball, called Zen Pinball 3D, on Nintendo’s 3DS eShop service for $7.99.

Zen Pinball, a universal release for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, is currently ranked No. 129 on the App Store’s list of most downloaded free gaming apps.（source:insidemobileapps）