Zynga launches a new match-3 game on Facebook: Fairy Tale Twist

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 7, 2013
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Zynga has launched a new game on Facebook: Fairy Tale Twist.

The free-to-play title is one in a series of games that have launched under the management of Don Mattrick, Zynga’s chief executive since early July. It is part of the Zynga’s effort to get its mojo back. This new game takes the player to a world with fairy tale characters. You have to match three items in a row in order to make them disappear from a grid. Yes, that means it’s a Bejeweled clone, though it isn’t an exact copycat.

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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.