Zynga confirms four mobile game studio acquisitions in late 2011
We knew that Zynga bought four companies in Q3 2011, but today the company reveals to Reuters the names of four companies it acquired throughout the end of 2011: GameDoctors, Page44 Studios, HipLogic and AstroApe.
German developer GameDoctors appeared on our radar late last week as its older game, Zombie Smash, suddenly reappeared in the App Store rankings. We also heard about the AstroApe acquisition back in August 2011 when the developer’s top employees all updated their LinkedIn profiles with Zynga positions.
Page44 Studios — acquired in September, according to Zynga’s head of mobile, David Ko — is a bit of a surprise as the San Francisco-based developer is only really known as collaborating with indie darling 2D Boy on hit downloadable game, World of Goo. Zynga also acquired San Francisco-based developer HipLogic around the same time; that developer is best known for its mobile UI platform services.
Ko didn’t provide Reuters with any additional details on Zynga’s mobile strategy. Its latest mobile title is Scramble With Friends, released this month.
January 18th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Just to be completely, truly, utterly clear: Page44 Studios did not develop World of Goo — they only ported it to mobile. Which is why it’s kind of weird that Zynga picked them because that seems to be the only big game port they’ve done.
January 18th, 2012 at 7:00 pm
What are you talking about? Page 44 is responsible for several major video games including Madden NFL 2010, 11, and 12 for iPhone (’12 for iPad too). Madden is one of the biggest video game franchies ever made and the iPhone ports have some crazy tech.
Here’s what they’ve released: NHL 2001 for PS1, Supercross 2001 for PS1, Freekstyle for PS2, Gretzky NHL 2005 for PS2 and PSP, Gretzky NHL 2006 for PS2 and PSP, The Godfather for PS2, Xbox and PSP, Tony Hawk’s Project 8 for PSP, Tony, Hawk’s Proving Ground for Playstation 2 and Wii, High School Musical 3: Senior Year DANCE! for Xbox 360, Wii, Playstation 2 and PC, Hannah Montana: Rock Out the Show for PSP, Madden NFL 10 for iphone, Madden NFL 11 for iphone, Madden NFL 12 for iphone/ipad, Disney Channel All Star Party for Wii, Pictionary for Wii on the uDraw Tablet, World of Goo for iphone/ipad
January 18th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
[...] Page44 Studios — acquired in September, according to Zynga’s head of mobile, David Ko — is a bit of a surprise as the San Francisco-based developer is only really known as collaborating with indie darling 2D Boy on hit downloadable game, World of Goo. Zynga also acquired San Francisco-based developer HipLogic around the same time; that developer is best known for its mobile UI platform services.（source:insidemobileapps） [...]
January 19th, 2012 at 10:41 am
…also Pictionary for PS3 & Xbox 360 Udraws, and Disney Princess Enchanted Storybooks for the Wii UDraw
May 17th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
[...] using touch controls. Zombie Swipeout was in the early stages of development when GameDoctors was acquired by Zynga in October 2011, and is the first game from the team to be released under the Zynga [...]