Zynga starts testing Empires & Allies as a modern military combat game on mobile

Zynga shed more light today on a new mobile version of the action-strategy game Empires & Allies. The social gaming company said it has begun geography-locked testing of this game in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and it plans to launch the action-strategy game as its first entry in that genre in the coming months.

Zynga made the announcement as part of its fourth-quarter earnings release.

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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.