Take Two Takeover
Strauss Zelnick’s Take-Two buys Mark Pincus’s Zynga in $12.7 billion deal
One of the largest deals in video game history will align a mobile-gaming firm with a PC- and console-focused developer under the same leadership

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Marc Pincus and Strauss Zelnick
Video game company Take-Two Interactive has reached a $12.7 billion deal to acquire rival company Zynga, catapulting the “Grand Theft Auto” creator into one of the industry’s most formidable game publishers.
The deal, one of the largest in video...