Zynga is teasing the look for its Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells game.
Zynga is prepping Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells game.
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Zynga’s Q1 2021 bookings of $720M are up 69% from a year ago

Zynga beat analysts’ expectations today, reporting stellar bookings and revenues in the first quarter that ended March 31 thanks to the strong performance of its existing games and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells.

Zynga also continued its acquisition spree, moving out of its usual food chain to agree to pay $250 million for Chartboost, a mobile advertising and monetization platform with 700 million monthly users.

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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.