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Zynga To Offer Real Money For Games

By TechTaffy Desk

[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Would you like to play FarmVille for money? If you are in the UK, now you actually can. Makers of the popular Facebook game FarmVille Zynga and bwin.party, a real money gaming operator, have signed an exclusive partnership to offer real money online Poker and Casino games in the UK market.

Zynga’s UK-based real money games (RMG) service and bwin.party will launch RMG products including Poker and a full suite of 180 Casino games in the first half of 2013, which include table games such as slots, roulette and blackjack. In addition to the full suite of Casino and Poker games, Zynga’s UK-based RMG service will also leverage FarmVille, to offer local players the first-ever, online Farmville-branded real money slots game.

Zynga’s real money UK poker customers will join the bwin.party dotcom player liquidity pool – playing on of the largest regulated poker networks around. The company’s real money gaming operations will be powered by the operating platform, software, and related support of bwin.party.

Zynga’s UK-based RMG service will operate under bwin.party’s Gibraltar gaming license.

[Image Courtesy: bwin.party]

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