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Zynga laying off 18% of its employees

Zynga, the massively popular development studio behind Farmville, Words with Friends, and other mobile gaming hits, is cutting back almost a fifth of its employees in an effort to cut $100 million in costs.

The news comes from the company's new CEO, who added that they will be focusing their efforts on only four genres of mobile gaming (Action Strategy, Social Casino, Invest & Express, and Casual Racing), down from the company's previous six.

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SABRMatt on LoMo

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Q.  What is the Exec Sum here?

A.  Logan Morrison has been hitting lots of fly balls to center field.

The conventional wisdom had been that LoMo had simply been unlucky.  And, yeah, he had 1 hit on 10 balls in play over 100 MPH.  Lot of well-stroked fly balls to center, in particular.

But in the Apr. 29 Shout Box, Matty wrote us a dissertation on Morrison's balls in play.  Not that we want to /cosign on 12 straight shouts ;- ) -- that's what comments and articles are for -- but he was spot on.  Here is the scatterchart he rooted up on Fangraphs (clickable link for the image):

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EA to shutter four free-to-play games

Free-to-play is a common buzzword in gaming these days, but despite all the hype, EA recently announced they would be shutting down four of their free-to-play titles.

Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, Need for Speed World, and FIFA World are all going to be closed in mid-July. EA cited the main reason as being lack of player participation and interest. Although free-to-play games are popular on mobile platforms, apparently they are not doing as well in PC land.

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