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Every day since Zynga, the company best known for Farmville and similar games for wasting time, put their shares on stock market last year, they kept on falling into deeper trouble every day. Stock prices are falling, earnings decline, and the company was abandoned by several key members, disgruntled by a direction in which the company is going, but also with the strict hand of Mark Pincus, founder and until recently CEO of Zynga. Pincus earlier this month stepped down from CEO position, leaving it to Don Mattrick, a former Microsoft's chief for Xbox.

Judging by the recent ad, Epic Games has begun to work on a completely new project. On the game itself, which is described as a competitive online action title, currently works a minor development team, but Epic is currently looking for a few more members to add.

Like all the big publishing houses, Bethesda too prepared for this E3 special promotional video for their big title The Elder Scrolls Online, which reveals plans regarding it's future. We already know that the game was made for already well-known platforms (PC, Mac), and now they announced The Elder Scrolls Online for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but also reveals the game should be completed by the next spring.

Electronic Arts has confirmed that they intend to cancel the Online Pass program. John Reseburg explains that the whole thing will not be included in a future EA's titles since the players were not too thrilled with the concept. And if you know how it works, it's weird that they have not figured out earlier how bad the concept is.

Apple has its own Game Center, and Google does not really have something similar. That is, at the moment no, but according to the Android Police in application My Glass, which comes with Google Glass there are calls and a list of options related to a future version of Google's network game service that would be a counterpart to Apple's Game Center.

On Chiphell.com forums information about Battlefield 4 have emerged which should be officially unveiled later this month at GDC. Information is supposedly pulled from the April issue of the magazine Edge, which is supposed to be found in the distribution immediately after release.

Zenimax Online has confirmed that the first round of invitations for beta testing of The Elder Scrolls Online will be sent at the end of the current month (March). The first closed beta test was held on 28th February among employees of Zenimax Online Studios, and their families and friends. Apparently Elder Scrolls Online proved stable enough to open it to a wider public.

Ubisoft is preparing quite a few serious modifications to their notorious online service Uplay. Stephanie Perotti has revealed that they want to improve the relationship with the PC community, and that they are currently looking for ways to improve Uplay. First of all it seems they will try to attract gamers by bringing a wider range of games to Uplay, as well as new features and options.

Kevin Johnson from Blizzard has recently released footage in which he explains how the Heart of the Swarm has been adjusted to fit the most absolute beginners and the most experienced strategists. Those who first encounter with the world of Starcraft 2 will surely first select Training Mode, where they will learn all the basics.

Blizzard's first expansion for Starcraft 2, Heart of the Swarm is at the front door and we believe that is already very known thing. This is why Blizzard’s Dustin Browder decided to look back at the news that the expansion will bring to the fans of this game.