Pursuits
Facebook Game Makers Kabam, Zynga Turn to China for Development
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Facebook Inc. game developers Kabam and Zynga Game Network Inc. said they will increasingly turn to Chinese software designers to make games for the website, tapping engineering talent in the Internet’s largest market.
Kabam, maker of the Facebook game “Kingdoms of Camelot,” set up a Beijing studio in May that has two unannounced titles under development, as many as are in progress at the company’s U.S. studios, Andy Lee, Asia managing director for Redwood City, California-based Kabam, said in an interview yesterday. Zynga, maker of the “FarmVille” and “Mafia Wars” games on Facebook, said it wants to harness China’s faster pace of innovation.