Zynga is unveiling today that it is working on a new mobile version of the action-strategy game Empires & Allies. But the mobile game differs from the earlier Facebook version in a very important way: it replaces the cartoon visuals with more realistic modern combat art.
In that sense, Zynga is taking Empires & Allies to a more hardcore audience. The original Empires & Allies debuted on Facebook in June 2011. The free-to-play turn-based strategy game soared to more than 39 million users in its first 25 days. It had a more accessible, cartoon art style, and the combat wasn’t graphic by any means. But the game fizzled out, and Zynga decided to shut down the Facebook web version in April 2013.
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