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Zynga and People buddy up on Crosswords With Friends

Social mobile game publisher Zynga has teamed up with Time Inc.’s entertainment publication People to launch Crosswords With Friends.

It’s another addition to Zynga’s With Friends category pioneered by Words With Friends, and it is available today as a free-to-play game on iOS and Google Play. Zynga dominates this puzzle category with hundreds of millions of Words With Friends players, and it is rolling out the crosswords games in hopes of capturing more fans of brain games.

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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.