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Zynga tries to retake mobile gaming with FarmVille 2: Country Escape

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Zynga is launching a new mobile version of its FarmVille 2 game aimed at positioning the embattled social-gaming publisher for the next generation of smartphone and tablet games.

FarmVille 2: Country Escape is a “mobile first” game with only small connections to its desktop counterpart, and it’s part of the company’s effort to reimagine its Facebook games for the fastest-growing, multibillion dollar gaming markets in mobile, said Jonathan Knight, the vice president of games at Zynga, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.