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Zynga may be closing Omgpop game studio that it bought for $180M

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It may not surprise anyone, but it looks like Zynga is shutting down Omgpop, the studio that made the wildly popular Draw Something mobile game. Zynga bought Omgpop a year ago for $180 million as Draw Something rocketed past tens of millions of players. It is an object lesson in how fast things change.

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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.