UPDATE: Zynga Unleashes the Zynga With Friends Network and New Play Across More Genres

Today at Zynga Unleashed, Zynga

, the world's leading provider of social game services, announced its unified Zynga With Friends network and unveiled new web and mobile games across more genres. Zynga showcased its newest "Ville" games, introduced its latest 'With Friends' mobile game and expanded its portfolio across casino and arcade categories. Zynga shared its vision and strategy for the future of its social gaming network and outlined how the company will unify its technology and its player experience across web and mobile. The Zynga Platform consists of a deep layer of infrastructure and a social gaming network. Today Zynga unveiled a new API layer called Zynga API, a central more efficient way for Zynga studios to tap into game services to make games more fun and more social. Zynga announced that it will open up the Zynga API to third party developers soon.