Sad news for the poker players: the Zynga company known for his poker with play money on Facebook, announced this week that it renounced its game the United States money projects, an initiative that was supposed to help the company to recover in these difficult times (read below for details).
«Zynga has made the choice to no longer seek a licence for games with money real in the United States ", informs us of a release issued this week.
However, several rumors suggested that the project would come to fruition this year.
The complexity of the legislation in the United States would be one of the reasons for this reverse of Zynga.
In same period last year, Zynga had launched a tender to find its future gaming platform. Among the companies that had applied, was GTECH G2 and Playtech (company responsible for the software used on the iPoker network).
According to the press release published by Zynga, the company "continues to assess its testing products of games with money real, to the United Kingdom. As a reminder, Zynga has partnered with bwin.party. Together, they publish casino games to the United Kingdom.
Last Thursday, Zynga has announced a net loss of 16 M$ for the 2nd quarter. This loss did lose 31% of its turnover to Zynga.
For the future, Zynga hope to recover from this situation with the coming of Don Mattrick who will be their new boss. This name will be no stranger to gamers since Mattrick has been president of the video games at Microsoft. He is a good part of the success of the Xbox console.
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