Social game maker Zynga is launching a game studio in the Los Angeles area.  As reported in Gamasutra, the company is setting up a game development shop in Marina del Rey.  The LA expansion represents the second in as many years for San Francisco-based Zynga, coming after it set up a game studio last year in Baltimore, Maryland.  Zynga said the move into L.A. is to tap into the area’s game and web development talent, adding that the company has been successful in the past with combining the DNA of traditional gaming with that of the internet.  Gamasutra says the L.A. studio has founding members who come from traditional game development, referring to one as designer Amer Ajami who worked on EA’s Command & Conquer real-time strategy series.  The outlet also points to the head of Zynga’s Baltimore studio, Brian Reynolds.  Before joining Zynga, Reynolds co-founded real-time strategy game maker Big Huge Games.  Read more at Gamasutra.