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Zynga announced his platform of Zynga social games in March. Since then, the own Zynga Games went live to Zynga.com, and the company has been reveal more details and partners. What seems to have been absent up to now, however, were the real games, built by undertakings other than Zynga and live on the platform.
Today, at an event of press highlighting Zynga partners, the company said the first third-party games were launched to Zynga.com - four games, specifically. The titles are:
Zynga also announced nine new partners for the platform of Zynga: Antic Entertainment, Big Bite Games, CrayonPixel, Eruptive, JamRT method, Playnery, RocketPlay and TikGames. This brings the total number of partners of the platform to 24.
The platform enables developers to display in the stream of Zynga.com social game activity and also to include social features like chat and multiplayer. It is available for the web and mobile games. Indeed, Zynga said it has recently launched its first game of partner for mobile - Horn by sets of phosphorus.
You can read more about the new games in this blog post of Zynga.
Zynga was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus and named after his late American bulldog, Zinga. Loyal and spirited, name of the Zinga is a blink of eye to a legendary African Warrior Queen. Team founder Eric Schiermeyer, Michael Luxton, Justin Waldron, Kyle Stewart, Scott Dale, John Doerr, Steve Schoettler, Kevin Hagan and Andrew Trader included early support. Mission of Zynga is connecting the world through games. Every day millions of people interact with their friends and express their unique personality thanks to our...
