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The trading debut of Facebook didn't exactly burst out of the gate like many people expected. But while the company was getting pounded in mid-day trading Monday,  shares of "tracking" stocks -- companies people invested in to own a piece of Facebook before it went public -- have suffered terribly in its wake.

None more so than fellow social giant Zynga.

Zynga shares closed down 14 percent Friday, briefly touching an all-time low. And Monday didn't start off much better. Zynga was down another 6.5 percent in early trading, hitting yet another all-time low of $6.40 per share, though they had rebounded to nearly even territory by the end of trading as bargain hunters stepped in.

The startup's technology puts sub-millimeter accuracy at user fingertips, offers control gestures like pinch-to-zoom, and promises new applications that make the Kinect and its kin look like yesterday's news.

By Daniel Terdiman, CNET

Credit: Leap Motion

Hands-free motion control, a technology pioneered by Nintendo's Wii and later improved upon by Microsoft's Kinect, just took a very big leap forward. Industries from gaming to surgery to architecture, engineering, and design may never be the same.

With the unveiling today of its Leap 3D motion control system, a San Francisco startup called Leap Motion has, well, leapfrogged the state of the art in this young field, giving users the ability to control what's on their computers with hundredth of a millimeter accuracy and introducing touch-free gestures like pinch-to-zoom.

Tim Tebow (AP)Jets fans, your fake video game prayers have been answered.

According to Madden NFL 13 creative director Michael Young, a certain kneeling celebration will appear in the upcoming football game.

"Tebowing is in for #madden13," Young tweeted.

They're a little late to the party, as Tim Tebow's signature post-touchdown move -- in which a player drops to one knee and puts a fist to the forehead while offering a quiet prayer to the heavens -- has already been parodied enough times to warrant its own website.

Zombie SwipeoutWhere, oh where, would we be without zombies?  These shambling, brainless baddies are the perfect outlet for gamer rage.  Squish 'em, shoot 'em, run 'em over: dealing out pain to the undead never seems to get old.

The folks at Gamedoctors — an indie app developer recently acquired by Zynga — understand the primal joy of zombie-smashing.  In fact, they made a game about it, fittingly named ZombieSmash!, which became, er, a smash hit on the iTunes store last year, garnering a 4.5 star rating from thousands of voters.

Now they're back with Zombie Swipeout, a follow-up that's set in the same cartoon-horror universe.  But instead of smashing zombies, this time you slash them to pieces with a host of suitably brutal weapons, edged or otherwise.

Curt Schilling (Getty Images)Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling shocked a lot of people when he launched a video game studio following his retirement from baseball. Today, he might be wishing that he hadn't followed that dream.

38 Studios, who partnered with EA earlier this year to release its debut title, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, is in the midst of a severe financial crisis. The developer was unable to pay its 379 employees this week, and is behind in making repayments to the state of Rhode Island, which loaned the company $75 million in 2010.

BattleshipThis weekend sees the latest board-game-turned-movie, Battleship, steaming into a movie theater near you, but judging by its critical reception, "steaming" seems to be a pretty apt word for what it's doing.

So if the movie is destined to sink without trace, what're you going to do with your afternoon instead? How about sitting down with a friend for a few rounds of the game that inspired the movie? It's likely to be a good deal more fun...but in order to have a good time, you've got to be in with a good chance of winning. Here's how to keep the wind at your back.

BattleshipThis weekend sees the latest board-game-turned-movie, Battleship, steaming into a movie theater near you, but judging by its critical reception, "steaming" seems to be a pretty apt word for what it's doing.

So if the movie is destined to sink without trace, what're you going to do with your afternoon instead? How about sitting down with a friend for a few rounds of the game that inspired the movie? It's likely to be a good deal more fun...but in order to have a good time, you've got to be in with a good chance of winning. Here's how to keep the wind at your back.

Jason West and Vince Zampella (Getty Images)One of the ugliest lawsuits in the video game industry's history has been settled just days before going to court, but the legal fireworks may not be over yet.

Activision and Electronic Arts have settled their differences over Jason West and Vince Zampella, former heads of Infinity Ward and creators of the Call of Duty franchise and "agreed to put this matter behind them," the two publishers said in a joint statement.

The peaceful resolution is a far cry from the mudslinging that has been going on since 2010, when Activision accused EA of "poaching" the developers, who were under contract. (It escalated things by suing EA in December of that year.)