Publisher Zynga follows its ambitions of developing games for PC and consoles. To bring its existing franchises outside the mobile sector, the company has just bought Echtra Games, creators of Torchlight III.

Zynga is known as one of the leading mobile publishers. The company is now planning to expand its brands on PC and consoles with the first title expected to release this year.

Zynga is pulling the plug on FarmVille later this year. This is mostly because Facebook is dropping support for Flash games.

Zynga agreed to acquire Turkish mobile game company Peak Games for a whopping $1.8 billion. The update came from Bloomberg.

Our friends at law firm Semenov&Pevzner have put together an exhaustive overview of the most significant legal disputes that have impacted the video games industry since late 2019.

This overview covers both notable lawsuits and other impactful cases which have profoundly affected the industry without having made it to the courtroom.

Dream Games, a newly founded studio based in Istanbul, has raised $7.5 million in seed funding. The investment round took place against the backdrop of the explosive growth that Turkey’s game development community is experiencing.

Mobile title Empires & Puzzles has generated more than half a billion dollars over two years. Its lifetime installs have reached 41 million.

Acts of violence are once again blamed on video games. US President Donald Trump implicated games as the reason for two shootings in Texas that killed more than 30 people. Following Trump’s speech, biggest game publishers saw their shares sink.

Exactly a year ago Zynga acquired Gram Games, the makers of 1010! and Merge Dragons!

Gram Games is a rare success story in the industry. It began as an indie studio in Turkey, underwent a serious crisis, but went on to become an international business worth over $250m.