Starlark is based in Beijing.

Zynga’s Q2 2021 bookings of $712M are up 37% from a year ago

Zynga beat analysts’ expectations today, reporting strong bookings and revenues in the second quarter that ended June 30 thanks to the  performance of its existing games Toon Blast, Toy Blast, Rollic’s hyper-casual portfolio, and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells.

And Zynga also kept up its acquisition spree by agreeing to acquire Golf Rival maker StarLark from Betta Games for $525 million. The Beijing company makes what it claims is the No. 2 golf match game with more than six million players. Zynga also closed its $250 million for Chartboost, a mobile advertising and monetization platform with 700 million monthly users; and its Rollic division topped a billion lifetime downloads.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.