Social Web browser Flock acquired by casual gaming giant Zynga

[froggyboy604]

One of the biggest names in social gaming has decided to make a move into the application space. Zynga -- who brought the immensely popular Farmville to Facebook -- has purchased Flock, one of the first Web browsers to offer an integrated social networking experience.

Zynga's massive userbase could certainly give Flock a boost -- especially since it's a foregone conclusion that Zynga users are pretty keen on sites like Facebook. Right now, Zynga's network includes around 250 million users. Flock, by contrast, has about 10 million -- though it's still one of the top ten desktop Facebook apps.

Whether this means you'll see Flock-specific Zynga games remains to be seen, but as a pair of cross-promotional tools, Zynga and Flock are a match made in heaven. Head over to the Flock blog to check out CEO Shawn Hardin's thoughts on the acquisition.

downloadsquad

Zynga seems to be taking over the Social Networking Community by making and buying, popular social mmo games and they now own a web browser.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I have to wonder if this will lead to something good or bad for other MMOs out there which is not own by Zynga.

 

[froggyboy604]

Indeed, I wonder would Zynga make non-Zynga MMO like Runescape and other games, etc run slower or buggy then average on Flock on purpose, so people complain that Runescape is slow, and will more likely play a Zynga based MMO like "Mafia Wars".