Zach Gage’s Puzzmo gets acquired as the newspaper games space heats up

/ Games from the Gage-led puzzle platform will start rolling out to readers of Hearst publications like the San Francisco Chronicle and Popular Mechanics.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Image: Puzzmo / Angie Wang

The battle over newspaper-style puzzle games is intensifying. Hearst — which publishes the likes of Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and the San Francisco Chronicle — has announced that it has acquired Puzzmo, a puzzle gaming platform led by indie developers Zach Gage and Orta Therox. The move puts Hearst directly up against the gaming efforts of

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