Mobile gaming giant Zynga has outlined new plans for NFT game and Web3 acquisitions coming in 2022
San Francisco-based game developer Zynga, best known for the FarmVille and CSR Racing series. They have announced plans to release its first blockchain and NFT-based games this year.
Also, the billion-dollar game studio first made waves in the crypto world last year. They have appointed 30-year gaming industry veteran Matt Wolf as Vice President of Blockchain Gaming. He will lead the company’s charge into the burgeoning industry.
Furthermore, Zynga has also announced plans to increase the current blockchain gaming team from 15 employees to anywhere up to 100 by the end of this year. The company may also soon fall under the umbrella of video-game colossus Take-Two Interactive. The publisher of Grand Theft Auto publicly announced a 12.7 billion dollar acquisition move set to close in the first quarter of 2023.
Moreover, peaking on the firm’s NFT based gaming plans with Axios, Wolf said that upcoming blockchain-based games would be brand new titles. It“doesn’t make sense” to start adding NFTs into existing games such as FarmVille straight away.
In addition, He said that players could expect the new games to look something like Mafia Wars. A now-discontinued social media game where players assumed the role of gangsters, and they’ve worked to build up their crime family.
Zynga has been taking more aggressive steps into the sometimes-controversial blockchain-based gaming sector than many other traditional gaming companies. Hesitancy has been the common denominator. Because in the gaming studios, cryptocurrency-related features have often provoked a backlash from angry gamers.
