Mayor Andy Street of West Midlands (left) and Julian Widdows of NaturalMotion.
Mayor Andy Street of West Midlands (left) and Julian Widdows of NaturalMotion.
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Zynga starts a new racing game studio in United Kingdom

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mobile gaming publisher Zynga has announced the opening of a new studio located in the heart of Birmingham, United Kingdom, which will add to its long-standing racing division at NaturalMotion.

Zynga didn’t say what game this new dev house would make, but the company said it would be an extension of the NaturalMotion studio in London. Zynga has been expanding for a couple of years through both internal growth and acquisitions.

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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.