Zynga日前对外宣布他们从Floodgate获得人才团队补充到去年八月份基于收购Conduit Labs的波士顿团队。

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根据此次收购的相关协议显示，从Floodgate获得的人才团队将立即进入波士顿工作室。Floodgate是一家在PC游戏、休闲游戏、手机游戏和社交游戏都有涉猎的研发团队，其中Floodgate创始人，曾创建Sky Productions（游戏邦注：后发展为LookingGlass），有数十年游戏从业经验的Paul Neurath将以创意总监的身份加盟Zynga。

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去年八月，Zynga收购了Super Dance和Music Pets开发者Conduit Labs，并借此创建Zynga波士顿工作室。

在此之前，Zynga已经进行了多次并购，包括收购北京的XPD Media、奥斯汀的Challenge Games、东京的Unoh Games、波士顿的Conduit Labs、法兰克福的Dextrose AG、达拉斯的Bonfire Studios、得克萨斯的Newtoy和纽约的Area/Code。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

In a brief announcement, Zynga is saying today that it has bought the team from Floodgate Entertainment, a long-time developer of of games across PC, casual, mobile and social platforms. The team will be joining Zynga Boston — a studio that was formed last August around acquired social music game developer Conduit Labs. Zynga isn’t telling us much more about what the combined teams will be working on (we’re checking to see what happened to the company itself). Here’s a bit of detail from the official statement:

The team from Floodgate will immediately bolster the Zynga Boston team, with industry veteran and current Floodgate founder Paul Neurath joining as Creative Director. Paul brings to Zynga over two decades of experience in game development and is responsible for a number of acclaimed titles. In 1990 Paul founded Blue Sky Productions, which became LookingGlass in 1992.

Floodgate’s long list of creations include: Ultima Underworld, Madden Football 1994, Command & Conquer, EA Sports NASCAR 2007, Age of Empires, and recent mobile title Mo-Pets.

Zynga also highlights that this is the tenth acquisition in the past ten months. The company has made small purchases a key part of its business for many years, with many of the acquirees going on to take leading roles on future games. Here are the previous nine:

* XPD in Beijing

* Challenge Games in Austin

* Unoh Games in Tokyo

* Conduit Labs in Boston

* Dextrose AG in Frankfurt

* Bonfire Studios in Dallas

* Newtoy Inc. in McKinney, Texas

* Flock team

* Area/Code, New York（source：inside social games）