Chat and Challenge in Zynga’s Words With Friends, Now Available in the App Store for iMessage
September 15 2016 - 9:00AM
Zynga (Nasdaq:ZNGA), a leading social game developer, this
week announced its popular social game Words With Friends is now
available to play directly in Messages on your iPhone or iPad. To
access this first of its kind experience, download the Words With
Friends iMessage app on any iPhone or iPad with the new iOS
10.
"At Zynga, we are focused on developing brand new mobile gaming
experiences on emerging platforms that bring our games directly to
the places where players are already socializing,” said Scott
Koenigsberg, Senior Vice President of Games, Zynga. “We are proud
to be one of the first gaming companies to launch on the App Store
for iMessage with a Words With Friends experience that feels
authentic to Messages. Since its launch nearly 7 years ago, Words
With Friends has proven to be a place where millions of people stay
in touch with friends and family every day, and we are excited to
provide wordies a new way to make moves and connect through iOS
conversations in Messages.”
Launched in 2009, Words With Friends has been installed more
than 200 million times and is one of the App Store’s Top 10 free
games of all time. An estimated 55 million active Words With
Friends matches are played around the world at any moment, and more
than 75 million words are played every day.
With the Words With Friends iMessage app, players can have all
the fun Words With Friends offers, right where they are already
connecting with friends and family. Now players can make moves
directly in Messages, invite friends and family to a match from
their contact list and play faster than ever before with a compact
game board and fewer tiles. Players can also indulge their love of
words with several new ways to play including finding top
competitors through the “Play Someone New” feature, up-leveling
their vocab status and competing in the Weekly Challenge, earning
badges as they succeed in the game.
For more information on Words With Friends, visit the game’s
community channels on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Game video
and images can be found here:
https://zynga.box.com/s/m1q93hy1cg5c1uoilu33tbmwyf7aqkio.
About Zynga
Inc. Zynga Inc. is a leading developer of the world's
most popular social games that are played by millions of monthly
consumers. The company has created evergreen franchises such
as FarmVille, Zynga Casino and Words With
Friends. Zynga's NaturalMotion, an Oxford-based mobile
game and technology developer, is the creator of hit mobile games
in popular entertainment categories, including CSR
Racing, CSR Classics, CSR2 and Clumsy
Ninja.Zynga games have been played by more than 1 billion
people around the world and are available on a number of global
platforms including Apple iOS, Google Android, Facebook
and Zynga.com. The company is headquartered in San
Francisco, Calif. Learn more
about Zynga at http://blog.zynga.com or follow
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Forward-Looking StatementsThis release contains
forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, the
launch of Words With Friends iMessage app, the success of
the game, gameplay and features for the game, and that we are
focused on developing brand new mobile gaming experiences on
emerging platforms that bring our games directly to the places
where players are already socializing. The success of the matters
covered by such forward looking statements involves risks. Actual
results could differ materially from those predicted or implied.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include,
among other things, player interest in the game and features,
player interest in the Casual category, our relationship and
agreements with platform providers and providers of licensed
content, our ability to launch future features for the game in a
timely manner, our ability to monetize the game and features
effectively, the effectiveness of our marketing program, our
ability to implement new game technology and player reaction to
this technology, and our ability to anticipate and address
technical challenges that may arise. More information about the
risks Zynga faces is included in our quarterly and annual
reports filed with the SEC, copies of which may be obtained
at http://investor.zynga.com or the SEC's web
site at www.sec.gov. Undue reliance should not be placed on
the forward-looking statements in this release. We assume no
obligation to update such statements.
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