The company's gaming division announced that a game's license could be transferred from one owner to another only once: each copy of a game would be associated with its owner's individual username and console, unplayable by others.
The Line Games business was formed earlier this year when Line merged its existing gaming division from NextFloor, the Korea-based game publisher that it acquired in 2017.
In a statement about the deal, Zynga CEO Don Mattrick, who previously led Microsoft's gaming division, said that NaturalMotion's technology would help Zynga improve its mobile games.
Most importany, however, is UTV's substantial mobile gaming division, Indiagames.
FOBTs are part of Paddy Power's "machine gaming" division, whose revenues soared by 17% to £94m last year.
After the company's social gaming division underperformed, Pitaro's co-president, John Pleasants, resigned, giving Pitaro control of Disney Interactive.
But its attempts to reproduce the success of its gaming division in music and movies have failed, because consumers have come to expect common standards in those fields.
"All we're really asking for is a level playing field," said Damian Walker, spokesman for Ladbrokes, the betting and gaming division of the Hilton Group.
Peter Moore, head of Microsoft's gaming division, tells the BBC Web site that he is "probably one of the most accomplished game developers in the world".
Mr. Gates and Isao Okawa, the late president of the Sega Corporation, considered having Microsoft merge its gaming division with Sega or buy Sega outright, Mr. Moore said.
Mr. Pitaro was given control of Disney's struggling gaming division in 2013 and charged with ending years of wildly uneven results.
