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Zynga moves into ‘midcore’ games with acquisition of November Software (exclusive interview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga hasn’t had the easiest time in the last six months. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been busy behind the scenes. The social gaming giant is revealing today that it quietly acquired a small mobile game studio called November Software, which is working on a new type of game that could bust open a new market for Zynga.

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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.