Tue, Nov 16, 2010 | 15:57 GMT
Zynga acquires six studios in six months, is estimated to be worth over $5.51 billion
Mark Pincus, CEO and founder of Zynga, talked up the rise of social gaming during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday, and told attendees the firm has grown tremendously over the last six months.
According to Pincus, the company has 1,300 employees across 13 studios in six different countries, said Edge. Pincus also said Zynga has made six acquisitions of other studios over the last six months and there are at the moment 400 employees working on a new IP.
The CEO also revealed that over 320 million people have played a Zynga game its FrontierVille game currently has 650K same-sex marriages in-game, which he called “amazing” and probably “more than any country in the whole world”.
Zynga also has something called Dog Activate in the works, which is a new “social experience” it plans to implement across it’s network, allowing users to see when other users are playing its games.
An analyst as valued the company as being worth $5.51 billion – supposedly being worth more than EA’s “Nasdaq stock market value”.
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Posted in: Casual, PC, Zynga
Tags: Mark Pincus
7 comments
#1
Stephany Nunneley
16/11/10, 3:57 pm
Never underestimate the power of bored housewives on Facebook.
#2
Psychotext
16/11/10, 4:03 pm
I rely on it!
/licks lips
#3
barber89
16/11/10, 4:49 pm
Amazing ! $5.51 billion haha… i need to come up with some random web game lol
#4
Suikoden Fan
16/11/10, 5:24 pm
Dear Farmville players, play a real farming game, play Harvest moon, that is all
#5
Stephany Nunneley
16/11/10, 5:45 pm
@4 Hell even the old SimFarm game on DOS would be better.
#6
Suikoden Fan
16/11/10, 7:31 pm
@5 i have to agree, tbh i love harvest moon, rune factory, harvest fishing and innocent life
#7
mojo
17/11/10, 8:33 am
awaiting the bubble to burst.
5:
ANY game would be better. even E.T.