Zynga buys Wonderland Software, makers of GodFinger

Zynga has added another iOS developer to its growing stable -- Wonderland Software, makers of GodFinger, the Ngmoco-published freemium title, has been purchased and rebranded as Zynga Mobile UK. Wonderland made GodFinger for Ngmoco, so that game isn't part of the buyout, but Zynga will, of course, use the company and its resources to build up a developer presence in the UK for both mobile and social games.
This buyout follows the purchase of two other big iOS developers by Zynga, including Drop7 dev Area/Code, now Zynga New York, and Words With Friends' Newtoy, which has seen been rebranded as Zynga With Friends. That's quite a growing empire Zynga is building out of iPhone developers, and I'm inclined to say we'll see a few more studios bought up in the future. What we haven't seen quite yet is just what these studios are doing for Zynga -- Words With Friends has been marked with a Zynga logo, but Zynga's iOS push doesn't have any new games to play with yet. Hopefully we'll see the fruits of these deals at some point.
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Zynga has added another iOS developer to its growing stable -- Wonderland Software, makers of GodFinger, the Ngmoco-published freemium...
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Zynga's becoming the Wal-Mart of the iOS AppStore world... buying up and bulking up and doesn't seem to be helping anybody but themselves. Ugh.
April 29 2011 at 4:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnd Zynga remains a hugely bad thing for iOS gaming as the more properties they buy, the more users are gonna get nickel and dimed on microtransactions. Much worse than Gameloft and their concept-stealing method of creation.
April 29 2011 at 3:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTerrific! Now they're going to put that stupid dog logo on more iOS app icons! I hate that they've done with Chess With Friends. It's slow as hell, and the icon looks stupid now.
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