Portrait and lifestyle shoot at Zynga's headquarters, San Francisco, CA, April 24-25, 2019. Pictured: a large group meeting with employees and their dogs.
Portrait and lifestyle shoot at Zynga's headquarters, San Francisco, CA, April 24-25, 2019. Pictured: a large group meeting with employees and their dogs.
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Zynga teams with Forte to take blockchain games to the mainstream

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Social gaming firm Zynga and blockchain infrastructure startup Forte have teamed up to create blockchain games based on Zynga’s gaming brands.

The idea is to drive faster development and create more “economic opportunities for players in blockchain gaming,” the companies said in an announcement today.

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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.