| 1 | XPD Media becomes Zynga China. XPD's CEO Robin Chan will become Zynga's general manager of Asian business development. XPD Media is a venture-backed social gaming company headquartered in Beijing, China with 40 employees. XPD has received $2 million in venture funding from True Ventures and Pilot Group. - Details → |
| 2 | Challenge Games becomes Zynga Austin. Challenge Game's co-founder and CEO, Andrew Busey will become Zynga's general manager and vice president of the Austin studio. Launched in 2007, Launch Games is a venture-backed social gaming company with 35 employees. It has received $14.5 million in Series A and Series B funding from Sequoia Capital and Globespan Capital Partners. Zynga issued $20.5 million in stock to finance the deal. - Details → |
| 3 | Conduit Labs becomes Zynga Boston. Nabeel Hyatt, Conduit Lab's CEO, will become head of the new Boston studio. Conduit Labs was founded in 2007 and is a venture-backed free-to-play music-based social game web developer. Conduit Labs received $8.5 million in venture funding by Charles River Ventures and Prism VentureWorks . - Details → |
| 4 | Unoh Games becomes Zynga Japan, a joint venture between Zynga and SoftBank Group, and will be the base of Zynga's mobile game initiatives. Founded in 2001, Unoh Games is a social gaming company based in Tokyo, Japan with hit titles including Machitsuku!, Band Yarouyo!, and Kaizoku Chronicle. Kenji Matsubara will become President and CEO of Zynga Japan. - Details → |
| 5 | Dextrose AG becomes Zynga Germany. The company's co-founders, Paul Bakaus and Rocco Di Leo, will act as Zynga Germany's CTO and Country Manager, respectively. Founded in September 2009, Dextrose AG is a privately held gaming company that is developing Aves, an HTML5 2D and 2.5D game engine for plugin-less browser games. - Details → |
| 6 | Bonfire Studios becomes Zynga Dallas. Founded in 2008, Bonfire Studios is a privately-held game development company founded by former Microsoft-owned Ensemble Studio employees. The three co-founders, David Rippy, Bill Jackson, and Scott Winsett, will serve as Zynga Dallas' GM, creative director, and arts director, respectively. - Details → |
| 7 | Newtoy, Inc. becomes Zynga With Friends. Founded in 2008, Newtoy, Inc. is a privately-held game developer, creators of Worlds with Friends, the Age of Empires series and the Halo Wars strategy game. Newtoy, Inc. was founded by two brothers, Paul and David Brettner, ex-Ensemble Studios employees. Paul will take the role of VP and GM while David become Studio Director. Acquisition price was $44.3 million in cash and $8.9 in Zynga stock. - Details → |
| 8 | Both Google and Twitter were also bidding for Flock. The Flock team will be joining Zynga. - Details → |
| 9 | Area/Code becomes Zynga New York. Headquartered in New York City, Area/Code is a game developer whose portfolio includes CSI: Crime City (in partnership with Ubisoft), Parking Wars, and Drop7. Area/Code's executives, Demetri Detsaridis and Frank Lantz, will become GM and Creative Director, respectively. - Details → |
| 10 | Zynga, Inc. acquired the game developed Wonderland Software. The acquisition included the intellectual property of Wonderland Software and an employment contract for former founder of Wonderland Software. - Details → |
| 11 | Ricardo Quesada and Rolando Abarca, key contributors to the cocos2d for iPhone open source project will join Zynga. - Details → |
| 12 | Zynga submitted an all cash bid of $950 million for PopCap Games, which was declined in favor of a competing offer from Electronic Arts. - Details → |
| 13 | The Five Mobile team will now become Zynga Toronto. - Details → |
| 14 | Zynga, Inc. acquired Astro Ape Studios, LLC to help its Android and iOS efforts - Details → |
| 15 | Zynga is paying $180 million for the company and another $30 million in employee retention payments. - Details → |
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