Empires & Allies is a modern combat game on mobile.
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Zynga goes hardcore with Empires & Allies on mobile

Mark Skaggs is a rare game creator because he has built casual games like FarmVille at Zynga and hardcore games like Command & Conquer while he was at Electronic Arts.

Now Skaggs, senior vice president of games at Zynga, is combining those skills as the co-creator of Zynga’s Empires & Allies, a hardcore mobile game which is launching today on the Apple iTunes App Store and the Google Play store. I saw the game in a preview, and I believe it’s going to be a lot of fun. The question is whether gamers are going to accept this title, which morphs Empires & Allies from a cartoon-like social game to a hardcore game with outstanding graphics and intense combat.

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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.