One year ago, Zynga paid $180 million for OMGPOP, the creator of the wildly popular game Draw Something for iOS and Android. Zynga seems to have decided that was a $180 million mistake. After directly writing off up to $95 million of OMGPOP last October, it now appears that Zynga is completely shutting down the studio — among other divisions — in an attempt to save $80 million more.
As we reported earlier this afternoon, Zynga is laying off 520 employees, a full 18 percent of its global workforce, and reportedly shutting down offices in Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York. What we didn't realize is that OMGPOP is Zynga New York.
Now, OMGPOP's official Twitter account and some of its staffers are unsurprisingly tweeting that they're...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/3/4393694/draw-something-studio-omgpop-reportedly-shuttered-amid-zynga-layoffs
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