1）据金融分析公司VC Experts资料显示，社交游戏开发商Zynga最近一轮融资金额应为4.9亿美元。在今年1月份，各大媒体曾报道Zynga筹备融资5亿美元，估值达到100亿美元，但该公司至今未公开明确的信息。VC Experts资料表示，Zynga的这轮融资交易有可能还在进行中，也有可能已经结束，并估计Zynga在这轮融资后的身价应该是91亿美元。

AllThingsD曾指出这轮融资的支持者包括摩根士丹利、T. Rowe Price、Fidelity Investments以及Kleiner Perkins，《纽约时报》则在4月份称T.Rowe Price已拥有Zynga价值7180万美元的股票。但目前Zynga仍未对此事做出明确回应。

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2）数字游戏搜索平台TeePee Games近日与行为分析公司Predictive Intent联合推出了新型搜索项目Geronimo，为用户提供Android、Facebook和其他门户网站的游戏搜索服务。Geronimo可根据用户行为及喜好等数据资料，为用户提供个性化的游戏推荐服务。

TeePee Games已支持访问300款Facebook游戏，100款Android手机游戏，以及2500款Flash网页游戏，该平台目前正处于测试阶段，将于未来数周内正式上线。

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3）Zynga联合创始人Andrew Trader（游戏邦注：他已在去年离开Zynga）最近打算将其持有的价值1200万美元的公司股份出售给Alpha Investment，但此举遭到了Zynga的反对，理由是“前员工”只能在Zynga首次公开募股180天后才能出售股份，结果Alpha Investment为此事在特拉华州法院起诉了Zynga。

4）新兴社交游戏公司Bossa Studios于日前在英国伦敦成立，该公司表示将于未来数月推出第一款游戏，先从Facebook平台起家，然后再进军Orkut、iOS和Android平台。该公司称他们将致力于开发当前用户从小玩到大的游戏类型。

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5）尽管Playdom推出的《NBA Dynasty》与Lionside旗下的《NBA Legend》同为NBA官方授权的Facebook游戏，但Playdom日前表示他们并不视对方为竞争对手，因为这两款游戏的玩法并不相同。

据AppData数据显示，《NBA Dynasty》自从4月16日发布后，其用户数量一直在稳步增长，尽管没有投入大量市场营销费用，但其MAU数值已达4.8万，最近的DAU也保持在7000至8000的水平。

这两者的不同点在于，《NBA Dynasty》主要着眼于让玩家收购、创建和训练球队，而《NBA Legend》却侧重于玩家培养自己的虚拟形象，使其奋斗成为NBA明星。

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6）主打硬核风格的Kabam最近又有重大动作，向Facebook平台推出了最新游戏《Global Warfare》。该游戏故事发生于一个“不久的将来”，各国政府解散，全球各地均划分为若干个战区，而玩家的任务就是联合起来接管其他国家，或者通过控制稀有能源或史前遗迹来占领某个地区。

虽然这是一款社交游戏，支持玩家通过聊天系统进行互动，但它植入了不少经典的实时策略类游戏元素，并借鉴《星际争霸》设计了用户界面，总体上看更像是一个类似于《魔兽世界》的在线MMO游戏。据称该游戏还将每月定期推出新内容，下一次重大调整就是支持玩家创建第三个城市（目前玩家只可访问两座城市），并提供新型的特种部队和其他奖励。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

1）Document shows Zynga may be raising $500M round

A new document shows that Zynga is raising a new round of funding up to $490 million, according to Inside Social Games.

The filing shows that Zynga, the largest social gaming firm on Facebook, has authorized a new series of Series C preferred shares as of early March, according to financial analysis firm VC Experts.

In February, published reports suggested that Zynga was raising a round of $500 million at a valuation of $10 billion. But the round was never announced. The filing shows that the deal may still be in the works or has already been completed. VC Experts calculated that the post-investment value of Zynga after the new round could be $9.1 billion, assuming that all authorized shares have been issued.

AllThingsD previously said that Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity Investments, venture firm Kleiner Perkins were participants, while the New York Times said in April that T.Rowe Price now owns $71.8 million in stock. The murky thing about the filing is that Zynga doesn’t have to file these documents on a timely basis and they are somewhat vague as well.（source:venturebeat）

2）TeePee Games partners with Predictive Intent to launch Geronimo discovery platform

Digital game discovery has been at the heart of TeePee Games ever since founder and CEO Tony Pearce set up the venture last November.

Now, in conjunction with behavioural analysis specialist Predictive Intent, the company is set to launch Geronimo – a new discovery engine aimed at Android, Facebook, and other web portals.

The art of prediction

Built from the ground up, Geronimo has been designed to serve TeePee Games users with game recommendations, with the platform drawing its suggestions from data based on their behaviour and stated interests.

The company claims Predictive Intent has employed ‘heavy mathematics’ to provide behavioural analysis and profiling that allows a user’s respective desires to be tracked.

The results are then combined with TeePee Games’ own database of raw inputs from each member to serve up recommendations that are tailored to appeal directly to the user in question.

Power for the portal

“The complexity of its [Geronimo's] inputs and the speed at which it can provide results to large numbers of concurrent users really shows what a ‘best of breed’ discovery engine should be capable of and as such, we’re hugely proud that Geronimo is the beating heart and the nerve centre of the TeePee Games experience,” said Pearce.

“Our objective is to provide gamers with content recommendations tailored to their interests and to help great games gain prominence. Only something as cutting-edge and sophisticated as Geronimo could achieve this at the scales we need for TeePee Games.

“The fact that it’s also incredibly easy for us to tweak and configure, thanks to Predictive Intent’s transparency and emphasis on proving the very best solutions for consumer and client alike.”

Sporting 300 Facebook games, 100 on Android and 2,500 Flash-based titles, TeePee Games itself is currently in open beta, but will to launch in the coming weeks.（source:pocketgamer）

3）Zynga Co-Founder Blooked from Selling His $12 Million — After leaving Zynga last year, co-founder Andrew Trader has recently attempted to sell his $12 million share to Alpha Investment. Zynga, however, has blocked the sale stating that “former employees” can only sell stock 180 days after Zynga’s IPO, says Mercury News. Alpha Investment has since filed a lawsuit against Zynga in a Delaware court.（source:insidesocialgames）

4）New Social Game Company: Bossa Studios — A new London-based social gaming startup by the name of Bossa Studios launched last week at The Next Web Conference Startup Rally. The company is hoping to have its first title release within the next few months, starting with Facebook and following with Orkut, iOS, and Android. The company’s focus is to make games similar to those that current gamers grew up with. （source:insidesocialgames）

5）NBA Dynasty No “Rival” to NBA Legend, Despite Shared License

Playdom’s NBA Dynasty basketball simulation game is one of two officially licensed NBA Facebook games alongside Lionside’s NBA Legend, which launched in February. Despite the common ground, Playdom doesn’t see the games are rivals because of the different approaches to gameplay.

According to metrics on AppData, NBA Dynasty is showing steady growth after its April 16 soft launch. The game hasn’t received much marketing, but already has a steadily-rising MAU figure of 48,000 and DAU relatively stable around the 7,000-8,000 mark.

In contrast Lionside’s NBA Legend focuses more on building up the capabilities of an individual player avatar rather than purchasing, constructing and coaching a team themselves. Legends also uses a completely different set of social hooks between friends. In fact, Krichel doesn’t believe the two games are really “rivals” at all.（source:insidesocialgames）

6）Global Warfare on Facebook: Is Kabam’s latest a ‘real game for real gamers?’

There’s an interesting new trend developing in Facebook games. While we’ve all spent the last two years bombarded with me-too games about farming or tending to virtual pets/stores/cities, several companies are starting to reach out to a new type of social gamer — the hardcore strategy gamer.

2KGames is planning to release a rendition of the classic game Civilization for Facebook and Kixeye (formerly Casual Collective) recently rolled out Battle Pirates with plans to create more of the same. Social gaming publisher Kabam, however, has been leading the charge with bringing serious strategy games to Facebook, with the release of Kingdoms of Camelot, Dragons of Atlantis and now, a new modern military-themed strategy game called Global Warfare.

The game is set in a “near future” world where goverments have been disbanded and replaced with a series of warring territories. Players band together to take on other states or dominate using less direct methods, like controlling resources such as titanium or crafting items using collected artifacts.

The game will be refreshed with new content regularly — one big release per month — and the next big thing to roll out in game is the ability to build a third city (right now you can access two cities), along with a new type of special troops and other bonuses.（source:games）