Casual games developer PopCap Games has announced its acquisition of ZipZapPlay, a social games studio based in San Francisco, California. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
ZipZapPlay is a venture-backed social games startup with 17 employees including founders Curt Bererton (CEO) and Mathilde Pignol (CCO), who will continue to direct game design and development at the studio. ZipZapPlay’s previous titles include Baking Life and other social games.
“The team at ZipZapPlay is one of the best in the social games space, and combined with our existing group in Seattle gives us the opportunity to dramatically expand our development resources,” said John Vechey, PopCap co-founder and VP of corporate strategy and development.
“While the acquisition creates immediate cross-promotional and operations benefits, this is a strategic move with huge long-term potential; we believe ZipZapPlay can help us further evolve and expand the definition of social games.”
ZipZapPlay will operate as an independent studio. With the resulting expansion of PopCap’s social game development capabilities, the company expects to have four or five games available on Facebook by the end of 2011.
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