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Adds a talented development team with extensive cross-platform experience to Zynga Brings Echtra Games’ proprietary cross-platform development tools and technologies Strengthens Zynga’s development capabilities for future cross-platform projects The Echtra Games team will be developing a new, yet to be announced role-playing game (RPG) for cross-platform play, in partnership with Zynga’s NaturalMotion studio SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS

Torchlight 3 (Via Rock Paper Shotgun). The studio was started by Blizzard North co-founder and Diablo series co-creator Max Schaefer after he left his previous stint at Runic Games in 2016. Runic, which Schaefer co-founded as well, had worked on the first two Torchlight games, as well as the criminally underrated Hob. And it’s his involvement in Echtra Games that drew Zynga, which is best known for games like FarmVille, to the studio. "Max and his team at Echtra Games are responsible for some of the most legendary game properties ever created, and they are experts in the action RPG genre...

Torchlight II, the older aRPG from Diablo's original Blizzard North developers, is now free on the Epic Games Store launcher.