据该公司一位前员工介绍，奥斯汀Zynga今天大规模裁员，该员工表示，这一宣布是在今天广为宣传的苹果iPad Mini公告期间发布的。

据称，该公司解雇了100多名员工，并关闭了6月份发布的街坊真人模拟游戏《Ville》（The Ville），一位前员工在电子邮件中告诉《边缘》（The Verge）。该公司还解雇了整个团队，因为一个新的未发行的游戏；这名前雇员说，这两个游戏“现在都结束了”。

这座城市的首映势头强劲，但本月早些时候人气急剧下降。这款游戏也是今年8月艺电（Electronic Arts）提起诉讼的目标，艺电指控Zynga复制了旗下游戏Sims Social。今年9月，Zynga反诉。

这一消息发布前一天，Zynga将宣布第三季度财报，预计这将是该公司股价暴跌的又一个令人失望的消息。

我们联系了Zynga，被告知该公司将很快发表声明。我们仍在报道这个故事，并将更新与确认。

最新消息：另一个消息来源证实，今天在奥斯汀、芝加哥和波士顿都有裁员。

更新2：以下是Zynga CEO马克·平卡斯的备忘录：

Team,

Earlier today we initiated a number of changes to streamline our operati***, focus our resources on our most strategic opportunities, and invest in our future. We waited to share this news with all of you until we had first spoken with the groups impacted.

As part of these changes, we’ve had to make some tough decisi*** around products, teams and people. I want to fill you in on what's happened and address any concerns you may have.

Here are the most important details.

We are sunsetting 13 older games and we’re also significantly reducing our investment in The Ville.

We are closing the Zynga Boston studio and proposing closures of the Zynga Japan and UK studios. Additionally, we are reducing staffing levels in our Austin studio. All of these represent terrific entrepreneurial teams, which make this decision so difficult.

In addition to these studios, we are also making a **all number of partner team reducti***.

In all, we will unfortunately be parting ways with approximately 5% of our full time workforce. We don’t take these decisi*** lightly as we recognize the impact to our colleagues and friends who have been on this journey with us. We appreciate their amazing contributi*** and will miss them.

This is the most painful part of an overall cost reduction plan that also includes significant cuts in spending on data hosting, advertising and outside services, primarily contractors.

These reducti***, along with our ongoing efforts to implement more stringent budget and resource allocation around new games and partner projects, will improve our profitability and allow us to reinvest in great games and our Zynga network on web and mobile.

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader. Our success has come from our dedication to a simple and powerful proposition – that play is not just something people do to pass time, it’s a core need for every person and culture.

We will all be discussing these difficult changes more with our teams and as a company. Tomorrow, Dave and I will be hosting a post-earnings webcast (details to follow) and next week we will be discussing our broader vision and strategy during our quarterly all-hands meeting. I’m confident this puts us on the right path to deliver on the promise of social gaming and make Zynga into an internet treasure.

If you have any immediate questi***, I hope you will talk directly with your manager, Colleen, or me.

I look forward to talking with you tomorrow.