Zynga Game Official social networks, the Mafia Wars game developer was sued by another company, Digital Chocolate. According to the founder who is also the founder of Digital Chocolate games developer Electronics Arts (EA), Trip Hawkins, Zynga has been using the name and the pattern of the same game made by Digital Chocolate mobile games.
The name ‘Mafia Wars’ has been used by Digital Chocolate in advance, so that Zynga had to rename it, and pause the game.
Hawkins expressed, in terms of games, game Mob Wars has also adopted the idea of Digital Chocolate. Since the year 2009, it is known that gamers can play Mafia Wars that allows gamers to join become part of a Mafia family and perform different actions to earn points or money. Several other games also follow the same formula, Farmville virtual farm game.
Meanwhile, Zynga itself said it would fight the lawsuit. “We were very surprised and disappointed by the legal steps undertaken Digital Chocolate, they are just looking for an opportunity, and we’ll deal with it,” said a spokesman for Zynga.
