Zynga's Rollic is buying the Onnect matching game for $6 million.
Zynga's Rollic is buying the Onnect matching game for $6 million.
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Zynga’s Rollic division buys Onnect game for $6 million

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga recently acquired Turkey’s Rollic for $168 million, and now Rollic is turning around and buying the matching game Onnect from Chef Game Studio for $6 million.

It’s another sign that big game publishers can’t get enough of small game companies, particularly those based in Turkey. Zynga bought  Istanbul-based Rollic, a maker of hypercasual mobile games (those that last a minute or so) in October.

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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.