{"id":115031,"date":"2020-07-02T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/365857"},"modified":"2020-07-02T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:32:00","slug":"zynga-acquires-toon-blast-developer-peak-for-1-85-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/02\/zynga-acquires-toon-blast-developer-peak-for-1-85-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Zynga acquires Toon Blast developer Peak for $1.85 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Zynga has closed a $1.85 billion deal to acquire mobile game developer Peak, though&nbsp;a press release notes that the&nbsp;studio will keep its &#8220;unique creative culture and brand identity&#8221; following the acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, made half in cash and half in Zynga shares, brings both the Istanbul-based development team and its popular match-3 franchises <em>Toon Blast<\/em> and <em>Toy Blast <\/em>into Zynga, though its HQ will remain in Istanbul with founder Sidar Sahin at its head.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, Zynga notes that the acquisition will bolster its international reach while also boosting its average mobile daily active users by more than 60 percent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to welcome Sidar and Peak\u2019s extraordinarily talented team to Zynga,\u201d reads a statement from Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau. \u201cWith the addition of <em>Toon Blast<\/em> and <em>Toy Blast<\/em>, we are expanding our live services portfolio to eight forever franchises, meaningfully increasing our global audience base, and adding to our exciting new game pipeline. As a combined team, we are well positioned to grow faster together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Zynga has closed a $1.85 billion deal to acquire mobile game developer Peak, though&nbsp;a press release notes that the&nbsp;studio will keep its &#8220;unique creative culture and brand identity&#8221; following the acquisition. The deal, made half in cash and half in Zynga shares, brings both the Istanbul-based development team and its popular match-3 franchises Toon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}