{"id":133694,"date":"2021-08-06T15:49:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T07:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=133694"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T07:49:21","slug":"zynga-enters-into-agreement-to-acquire-mobile-game-developer-starlark-team-behind-the-hit-franchise-golf-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=133694","title":{"rendered":"Zynga Enters Into Agreement To Acquire Mobile Game Developer StarLark, Team Behind The Hit Franchise, Golf Rival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 6 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zynga.com%2F&amp;esheet=52471801&amp;newsitemid=20210805005098&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Zynga+Inc&amp;index=1&amp;md5=027fed40b80874caefb5360d634b839e\">Zynga Inc<\/a>. (Nasdaq: ZNGA), a global leader in interactive entertainment, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire StarLark, developer of the fast-growing and second-largest mobile golf game in the world, Golf Rival, from Betta Games for $525 million in cash and stock. This acquisition brings to Zynga a talented development team with the proven ability to create a global hit and additional projects in early development. StarLark also expands Zynga\u2019s international presence by establishing a China-based studio with access to the region\u2019s creative talent base.<br><br>In\u00a0<em>Golf Rival<\/em>, players of all skill levels compete in real-time player-versus-player matches, including multiplayer tournaments on spectacular courses with customizable equipment. The game has rapidly grown to become the second-largest mobile golf game in the world with six million downloads in 2021 alone.<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=40710\">http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=40710<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 6 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;\u00a0Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA), a global leader in interactive entertainment, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire StarLark, developer of the fast-growing and second-largest mobile golf game in the world, Golf Rival, from Betta Games for $525 million in cash and stock. This acquisition brings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}