Popular game developer Zynga has acquired Challenge Games, confirms a report.

Challenge Games, a developer of web based games that comprises of name tags such as Warstorm, a card game, and Ponzi, a tycoon game, started its services from 2007.

Mike Verdu, senior vice president of Zynga, on this eve of celebration happily exclaimed that this acquisition makes Challenge Game become a part of Zynga studio, and hence forth will be known as Zynga Austin studio. This latest addition will now become a part of other studios owned by Zynga, set in San Francisco, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Bangalore and Beijing.

Following the deal, Zynga will integrate the 35 Challenge Games employees in their team and at the same time CEO of Challenge Games will take the position of Zynga's general manager and the vice president of Zynga Austin studio.

Zynga is famed for its recently made popular games that include FarmVille, Treasure Isle, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, YoVille, Café World, FishVille and PetVille, that constitute an integral part of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and also on the iPhone.