Diablo co-creators and Blizzard North founders Max and Erich Schaefer created Echtra alongside other Blizzard vets in 2016; ...

Four years after acquiring the studio, Zynga has confirmed with IGN that Torchlight 3 developer Echtra Games is being closed.

Echtra Games, the San Francisco-based studio behind Torchlight 3, will be shut down by its owner Zynga by the end of June.

Zynga has acquired Echtra Games, the game studio that Diablo and Torchlight co-creator Max Schaefer started, as part of its expansion into cross-platform games that include PC and console.

Zynga has acquired Echtra Games for an undisclosed sum, the game developer announced on March 3. Zynga’s (ZNGA) CEO Frank Gibeau said, “This acquisition will be instrumental in growing our ...

Torchlight 3 developer Echtra Games has been shut down by its parent company Zynga as part of a "strategic realignment". Sigh ...

By Trilby Beresford Associate Editor Mobile game developer Zynga has acquired Echtra Games, a cross-platform studio led by developers of Torchlight and Diablo. The San Francisco-based company will ...

If that's a sign of things to come, we're going to be talking about Zynga a lot more in the next few years. Here's a couple of quotes from both companies about the deal. Echtra Games becomes the ...

The Echtra team, who boasts Max Schaefer as co-founder and CEO, will join Zynga to develop a new cross-platform RPG game in partnership with Zynga's NaturalMotion studio. Why It Matters ...

Zynga today announced that it has acquired Torchlight 3 developer Echtra Games. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2016, the San Francisco-based Echtra has shipped just one game to ...

Zynga Inc. has acquired Echtra Games, a cross-platform game studio composed of team whose core members have worked on titles like Diablo, Diablo II, the Torchlight franchise and more. The Echtra ...

Zynga has officially shuttered Echtra Games, the development studio behind Torchlight 3, which had been working on an ...