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Zynga and Gram Games launch Merge Magic as latest tile-based mobile game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga‘s Gram Games studio is launching a new mobile game, Merge Magic, in its hit series of “Merge” titles.

Gram Games has gone a long way with its “merge” mechanic. The Istanbul and London-based game studio makes mobile puzzle games where you merge two tiles into one to complete steps in the puzzle. The games are addictive, and they’re good money makers. And that’s why Zynga bought Gram Games last year for $250 million.

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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.