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Facing stiff financial difficulties, social gaming company Zynga has announced that they are cancelling 11 different titles. Fishville, Vampire Wars and Treasure Isle were the first of this group to be shuttered back on December 5, Indiana Jones Adventure World will shut down last on January 14.

• FishVille
• Forestville
• Indiana Jones Adventure World
• Mafia Wars 2
• Mafia Wars Shakedown
• Mojitomo
• Montopia
• PetVille
• Treasure Isle
• Vampire Wars
• Word Scramble Challenge

It looks like that what this represents is a consolidation of brand. Taking the success of Mafia Wars and spreading the fanbase between Mafia Wars, Mafia Wars 2 and Shakedown may not have been the best move. The question is whether or not the players of the shut down titles will come back to the original titles that drew them in in the first place.

As an added incentive to return to core titles like Mafia Wars, Zynga is offering special bonus packages, it will be interesting to see if that’s incentive enough or if these players will simply abandon social gaming completely.

As of December 31 2012, Zynga’s stock price was trading at just $2.36 per share which is down from their $11 IPO opening and their peak of $15 in March of 2012.

Enjoy some Angry Birds, Star Wars-style, as players can now fling Luke, R2-D2, Leia and other classic characters at Darth Piggy encampments.

Stan Lee has unveiled his new superhero game, Verticus, which will be coming to iOS devices. The game is basically a superhero variation of the classic indie game AAAAaAAAaaAAaaaAaaaa.

“I love this character,” Lee said after the conference. “I love the concept: the whole fate of the Earth is at stake… I’ve also never made a hero whose only mission is to save planet Earth from being blown up — and that’s a tough order!”

Lee, who also provides his voice in the game, states that it will be the first of a series of games with the character. Excelsior!

Super Hexagon is the latest smash hit iOS game, with fast paced puzzle action and a rocking chiptune music score. The game earned 10,000 sales in its first few days of release.

In it, you have to guide your ship through revolving hexagons. Sound easy? It’s brutally hard.

It’ll be coming to PC and Mac in the near future as well.

On August 5, 2012, the Curiosity Rover touched down on Mars… What did it find?