Zynga announces the acquisition of Echtra Games, the studio behind
Torchlight 3 composed of veterans of Torchlight and
Diablo
development. The team will be working on a new RPG that's yet to be officially
announced. Here's a bit from the press release, which repeats the term
"cross-platform" no fewer than a dozen times:
Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA),
a global leader in interactive entertainment, today announced that it has
acquired Echtra Games, a cross-platform game studio composed of a development
team whose core members have previously shaped the world of action role-playing
games through their work on genre-defining titles including Diablo, Diablo II,
the Torchlight franchise and more.
The Echtra Games team strengthens Zynga’s cross-platform play future by adding
talented developers with extensive cross-platform play experience as well as
proprietary cross-platform development tools and technologies that have been
built on top of the Unreal Engine. Specifically, the Echtra Games team will be
developing a new, yet to be announced RPG for cross-platform play in partnership
with Zynga’s NaturalMotion studio.