Zynga has announced the purchase of UK game-maker NaturalMotion for $527m.The company also announced that it would be laying off about 15% of its workforce – that comes out to roughly 314 employees.
The acquisition of Zynga by Take-Two Interactive might become the video game industry's version of the AOL Time Warner merger.
I have to give props for the use of Electric Boogaloo reference. I don't think many young folk will even know what that is.
On topic... wasn't that where Don Mattrick went after leaving XB?
Mobile publisher and developer Zynga, with the hiring of Matt Wolf as VP, seeks to reaffirm its intentions to enter blockchain gaming.
After a year in soft-launch, Zynga's nostalgia-evoking title FarmVille 3 is geared for a global release with the launch of a sneak peek video
How in the hell do they even need 300 employees to make Farmville 3 let alone over 2500!!!!! Seriously, can't the ripoff games they make be handled by 4 or 5 people each, its not like they require any brainstorming or creative design people.
Zynga was doomed for quite a while. They were definitely too ambitious in growing the company, they shouldn't need more than 50 employees. Sad to see people lose their job though, layoffs have been rough.
Time to delete all my NaturalMotion games.
Why do they need naturalmotion and their tech for mobile games is my question.
Zynga + Don = Dooooommmmeeeeeedddd
#Dealwithit