Greg Kumparak: "After Zynga acquired OMGPOP for around $200M only to lay off much of the team a year later, it was unclear what would happen to this last lingering monument to the company. On September 30th, it’ll be shut down for good. It’s the final period in OMGPOP’s story, a Zynga-branded version of Draw Something left as its only legacy."
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
Good times on that site :(
Dumbest move I`ve seen a company do for a lonnnng time....
I remember being a member of omgpop before the hipsters invaded it. When it was just the `Draw Something`` and that alone XD Man, so many memories of drawing penises instead of pants. Or drawing pants in the shape of penises.
Don Mattrick strikes
ever since the buyout, it's only going downhill. $200 million for a short-lived top game on android and iOS, bamm!! $200 million! sold the company the 1st chance he got for couple folds of what the company originally worth, and let Zynga take the fall. smart man! and what a dumb move from Zynga! I knew that they were desperate but scooping up a fad game? they only have themselves to blame!