San Francisco - Feb. 25, 2008 - Zynga Game Network (www.zynga.com), the largest social gaming network, announced today the launch of Game Center which accesses its Facebook network via an Application Programming Interface (API). Game Center allows developers to tap into the largest aggregated social gaming audience. Benefits include:
- Reach - Access to 1.4 million daily active users, as well as partner traffic.
- Social features - Friend and game discovery, game feed and chat via Zynga's proprietary SocialBar.
- Primary branding - The SocialBar is branded with the partner's logo.
- Easy-to-use - Developers add just a few lines of code.
- Guaranteed traffic - 100% click return.
"Our open network API will let users of our Game Center find new games through their friends and new friends through their games," said Mark Pincus, CEO, Zynga Game Network. "Our API will be a key bridge uniting game developers, large and small, enabling the creation of a massive connected social channel for new game distribution. This exciting network effect will benefit all our partners."
Zynga today also announced its initial 14 partner games, some of which include: Big Photo, Fantasy Football, Karma Games & Avatars, Mental Blocks, My Heroes Ability, Oregon Trail, Perfect Warrior, Text Twirl, The Dot Game and Tycoon. These Game Center launch partners join platform partners announced last week including Sierra Online and Bigpoint.com. All developers interested in joining Zynga's Game Center can sign up today at
http://apps.facebook.com/zyngadev/.
About Zynga Game Network
Zynga Game Network (
www.zynga.com) is the largest and most popular social game network. Zynga games are found on Facebook, Bebo, meebo and Friendster and include Texas Hold'em Poker, Blackjack, Attack!, Scramble, Triumph and Sea Wars. The company is funded by Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, Avalon Ventures and The Pilot Group, as well as leading individual investors Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel. Zynga is headquartered in the Chip Factory in San Francisco.
