If not for the announcement that Zynga just 📖acquired Floodgate Entertainment, we would have assumed the latter went out of business a while 🌃ago. It has only released one game on the iTunes App Store, more than a year ago, and the company's last press release was issued in 2006. But apparently Zynga sees something valuable there.

The acquisition becomes Zynga's 10th corporate takeover in just 10 months, and highlights how quickly it wa🌜nts to expand. As this case demonstrates, though, it's kinds of like going on a shopping spree at a Salvation Army.

Financial terms of the Floodgate deal were not disclosed, but we can't imagine Zynga had to pay much to buy a company whose library is almost exclusively made up of 💮mobile games designed before the first Android phone went on sale. The pictured title to the right, Civ IV: War of Two Cities, is one such example.

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Mar 21, 2011