We reported back in March about social game developer Zynga and its plans to double its Bangalore office staff from 100 to 200 employees. And today we’re hearing via an Economic Times report that the company has plans for more aggressive hiring at that location.
The report cites CTO Cadir Lee as saying that the company is bringing in more engineers and game designers. Lee added that “India is a strategic R&D center” for Zynga.
The company also announced the global launch of Mafia Wars 2 this week, which sees the game debut in 16 languages on Facebook. Fans of the game in Asia will be pleased to hear the title is available in Indonesian, Turkish, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Thai. Check out the promo video for Mafia Wards 2 below.
Year-on-year profits for Zynga are down 95 percent, although Gamasutra says the company attributes this to no new games in the first half of the year, and increased spending on hiring, acquisitions, and international growth.
We asked Zynga more about its India plans this morning, but not surprisingly the company declined to comment because of its current ‘quiet period’ leading to its upcoming IPO.
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