zynga今日宣布，他们正式收购了北京社交游戏开发公司XPD，这是zynga首次进军亚洲市场，而XPD将使zynga的亚洲战略获得更好的平台。

这个消息比我们之前猜测的zynga将成立北京办公室更加劲爆，同时也意味着说zynga此前关于进军中国大陆市场的传言已经被证实了。

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XPD原首席执行官Robin Chan将成为zynga亚洲区的总经理，目前XPD拥有40名员工，他们将马上被整合进zynga的范畴下。XPD创始人Andy Tian将主导zynga的北京办公室，继续协助zynga开拓亚洲市场。

Zynga today announced they are acquiring Beijing-based social gaming company XPD Media.  This is Zynga’s first step into the asian market and XPD gives it a strong presence in one of social gaming’s fastest markets.  Zynga also acquires a full Chinese development house to boost it’s already booming workforce, estimated to be approaching 1000 employees.  XPD’s CEO, Robin Chan, will become Zynga’s GM of Asian business.  Read more after the jump.

XPD has a team of 40 employees, and they will immediately be integrated into Zynga.  XPD’s co-founder Andy Tian will lead the Zynga Beijing studio, and help build out more games for the Asian market.  Although there is no information on what games will specifically be created or whether the studio will help port existing Zynga games to the Asian market, we can assume that this is the first in a series of steps for Zynga to begin spreading internationally.

“As the largest Internet market in the world, China is at the vanguard for virtual goods based gaming innovation,” said Robert Goldberg, VP of Corporate Development. “We expect our new office in Beijing and the incredible talent in the local market to play a strategic role in our mission to create the best social gaming experiences worldwide.”

XPD Media, backed by True Ventures and Pilot Group, launched in early 2008 focusing on social game development for Asian and international social networks.  We’ll have more information on their products and services and how those will interact with Zynga shortly.