Zynga's third filing brings a counterclaim against EA, alleging breach of contract and that EA violated California law concerning hiring. Zynga notes that "EA knows that none of the former EA executives it names in its lawsuit - John Schappert, Jeff Karp, and Barry Cottle - transmitted any EA confidential information to Zynga because EA itself was involved in, and approved of, the exhaustive measures undertaken to ensure that did not happen." " EA has not been able to successfully compete in the social gaming space and was losing talent, particularly to social gaming leader Zynga.