Playdom Hopes For NBC Universal Games with Merscom Acquisition

Playdom, makers of the Social City hit game and one of the largest social gaming companies on Facebook, announced today that they are acquiring Merscom Games and hope to publish brand name games in the future. Merscom develops online and social games for big brands, and are currently developing games for Sea World, Purina, National Geographic and NBC Universal. The interesting element here is that Playdom plans to leverage these relationships and expand their games into big brand names using the Merscom connection.