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Machine Zone (often abbreviated as MZ) is a mobile game developer and technology company known for creating massively multiplayer strategy games for smartphones. Founded in 2008 by Gabe Leydon and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company rose to global prominence with blockbuster titles such as Game of War: Fire Age, Mobile Strike, and Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire. These games became some of the highest-grossing mobile titles of the mid‑2010s, notable for their large-scale real-time multiplayer interactions and heavy use of data-driven marketing and live operations.

Machine Zone also built advanced real-time infrastructure technology to support millions of concurrent players worldwide, positioning itself as both a game developer and a high-performance backend technology innovator. At its peak the company employed hundreds of staff across engineering, analytics, and game operations teams. Machine Zone gained widespread industry attention for its aggressive marketing campaigns featuring celebrities and for generating billions in mobile game revenue, helping shape the modern free-to-play mobile strategy genre.