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Zynga, the mega mobile and casual game publisher behind FarmVille, has relinquished control of the Sugartown crypto game and its IP. The team that was working on the game has now relaunched as a new independent company, called D20 Labs, picking up where Zynga left off—and has already revealed a brand new game. D20 Labs was co-founded and is led by Matt Wolf, formerly the VP of Web3 gaming at Zynga, alongside ex-Zynga Web3 General Manager Tommy Ngo. By breaking off from the mobile gaming publisher, which is owned by gaming giant Take-Two Interactive, Wolf said that D20 Labs is able to dive deeper into the decidedly less-corporate world of crypto gaming. “Our recent independence from Zynga is historic, and positions D20 Labs as uniquely qualified to push the boundaries of video game innovation given our Web2/Web3 hybrid DNA,” Wolf told Decrypt. D20 Labs has already announced Royal Nutz Poker Club, a game built on Coinbase’s Base chain—an Ethereum layer-2 network—that is set to launch sometime next month with additional features and updates coming over time. Introducing the worldwide release of Royal Nutz Poker Club, D20’s first social casino poker game – built on Base and optimized for both Web and Mobile experiences ♣️♦️♥️♠️ RNPC will be the first multi-table poker championship game brought onchain, powered by sponsorships.… pic.twitter.com/lZaMBRNM7N — Sugartown (@visitsugartown) September 12, 2024 Sugartown is an IP that has a number of mini-games released under it, branded as a games hub strapped with Web3 incentives—currently two games have been released called ATH and NGMI. Royal Nutz Poker Club, while connected to Sugartown through IP and lore, is considered to be its own distinct game, with direction agnostic to the broader Sugartown project. The new web and mobile game will allow users play in poker tournaments in an attempt…

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