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Zynga, the company behind popular Facebook games such as Farmville and Cityville, is expected to have its initial public offering before the end of the year. Zynga is a phenomenon. More than 200 million people play its games each month. One person who doesn't feel Zynga's success is cause for celebration is video game designer Ian Bogost. Bogost thinks Zynga's games are mindless, designed to suck money out of players' pockets. To make his point he created a parody game of his own. As On the Media's P.J. Vogt reports, what Bogost didn't expect is that his satire would become one of the most popular games he's ever made.

The Feeling of Jazz, Program No. 448 airing February 13, 2022 featured another spotlight on the small groups of Duke Ellington (Born: April 29, 1899, Washington, D.C.; Died: May 24, 1974, New York, NY), in music presented by co-host Kent Lindquist. Meanwhile, co-host Al Corns featured other main stream jazz artists like Scott Hamilton, Slim Gaillard, Woody Herman and more. Engineered by Dave Woodworth.

The U.S. economy did well in 2022, but recession fears grow. Donald Trump will be allowed back on Facebook and Instagram. Social media companies face pressure to crack down on online fentanyl sales.

A Maine public safety commissioner said Robert Card, 40, should be considered armed and dangerous. The official declined to give casualty numbers in Lewiston, saying they're "are all over the map."

For this week's program, host and producer Tom Lounges raided the radio station blues vault and pulled out vinyls and CDs of some of his favorite live concert albums to create this special two hour "fantasy concert" where some of blues music's top artists and some of Tom's personal favorites were sequenced back to back with various live performance recordings to create a seemingly non-stop performance.

The musical guest for this program is STEVE POSTELL -- one of the world's top session guitarists and a member of the super group THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY as well as THE DAVID CROSBY BAND -- has released a new star-studded solo album recent weeks via Quarto Valley Records.

Meta faces a record fine from the EU for allegedly breaking Europe's privacy standards.

The social media company says it's introducing new policies to restrict teens from seeing posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders on Facebook and Instagram.

Public broadcasting station for Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland, will deliver real-time election night coverage on Tuesday, November 5, beginning at 6:00 PM CT.

As virtual reality becomes more lifelike and the technology more consumer friendly, developers continue to push it as the new heart of the video game and movie experience.