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Zynga teams up with IGDA to champion female game developers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga has teamed up with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) to support women in games.

Zynga will be a platinum sponsor for the IGDA Foundation’s Women in Games Ambassador and IGDA Scholars programs, which will get started at the 2018 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. The partnership is one pillar of Zynga’s presence at this year’s GDC, which takes place March 19 to March 20. Other game companies like Facebook and Google have also launched initiatives for women in advance of the big event for game developers.

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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.