Zynga Buys Area/Code, Developer of Ubisoft's CSI: Crime City Game on Facebook

Zynga has just announced the acquisition of independent game developer Area/Code, a company best known to our readers for its work with Ubisoft, developing the Facebook game CSI: Crime City. The New York-based outfit will become a new studio, Zynga New York.

Zynga has been busy buying companies, well, since its founding — but it’s made nine purchases in the last eight months or so. The reasons have varied: XPD gained it a China-based studio, Dextrose AG in Germany brought in experienced HTML5 developers, Flock’s team will help it expand browser-related features, etc.

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