July 6, 2023 Studios Plarium co-founder’s WhaleApp startup has raised $50 million and made $80m Ilya Turpiashvili founded the company after selling Plarium to Aristocrat Leisure
June 13, 2023 Exclusive Interview Zynga’s Yaron Leyvand talks Take-Two, the games industry, and their secrets for success We catch up with Zynga's executive vice president of mobile games, one year on from Take-Two’s acquisition
January 20, 2023 Mergers & Acquisitions Playtika offers $737.5m to acquire Angry Birds developer Rovio Israeli-based Playtika have sweetened their offer to acquire Rovio, as the latter remains reliant on their flagship franchise
January 16, 2023 Job News Plarium appoints Schraga Mor as CEO Mor brings more than two decades of experience to the role
December 22, 2022 Actively Acquiring Moon Active to acquire Zen Match from Good Job Games The associated Istanbul-based team will also be joining
December 21, 2022 Academia Playtika partners with Israeli universities to offer gaming related courses Israeli mobile developer Playtika is set to partner with local universities to offer gaming-related courses
December 13, 2022 Layoffs Playtika announces layoffs of over 600 employees 15 percent of the company’s staff will be affected by job cuts
November 8, 2022 Success In Israel Everybuddy Games raises $15 million in Series A Funding Round and is on a mission to build mobile games The funding will be used to scale the top-grossing Lucky Buddies
September 22, 2022 Israeli Gaming Market Israeli gaming market worth $9 billion 74 percent of the country’s mobile gaming workers specialise in social and casual games
September 12, 2022 New Acquisition Zynga closes acquisition of Storemaven The acquisition is the first Zynga has made since its own acquisition by Take-Two
July 18, 2022 Hot Five Hot Five: Unity's John Riccitiello describes some devs as "fucking idiots" amid merger with ironSource, bypassing app store fees, and Tencent denied new games licenses The hottest news articles on PG.biz
July 11, 2022 Success And Challenges Israeli industry reached $8.6 billion in revenue in 2021, with mobile the dominant gaming platform Israeli gaming industry must overcome lack of local talent, youth investment, and government funding to build
March 11, 2022 Bringing Blockchain Brain Playtika hires Jacob Mendel to leverage blockchain expertise Having led blockchain initiative at J.P Morgan and Intel
March 4, 2022 Protecting Pine Playtika to plant up to 100,000 Western white pine trees to reinvigorate species House of Fun players will contribute to number of trees planted through gameplay
February 25, 2022 Casual Control Playtika revenue grew 8.9% to $2.58 billion in 2021 Board of directors considering the sale of the company
February 24, 2022 #mechswerehere Plarium donates $100,000 to games accessibility charity AbleGamers Following successful fundraising campaign in Mech Arena
February 16, 2022 Well Sourced IronSource revenue rises 67% to $553 million Projects up to $820 million in revenue for 2022 fiscal year
January 11, 2022 Broadening The Board Playtika brings Dana Gross and Hong Du onto the board Brings total board members to seven
December 23, 2021 Charitable Collaboration Playtika partners with Make-A-Wish for holiday event in Bingo Blitz Will donate $100,000 if goal is reached
December 21, 2021 A Whale Load Whaleapp surpasses 40 million mobile game downloads 158% growth in the past 3 months
December 15, 2021 On The Edge Edge Gaming raises $10 million for user-generated content platform Backed by Playtika
December 13, 2021 Doubling Down Vgames raises $141 million for second games investment fund Firm to invest in game studios at various stages
December 1, 2021 Create To Dominate Sneaky Panda raises $6 million for novel 'luck-puzzler' mobile games Debut title scheduled to release next year
November 25, 2021 Master Of Coins Coin Master creator Moon Active raises $300 million on $5 billion valuation Quadrupled valuation in less than two years
November 17, 2021 Funding The Future Overwolf raises $75 million in Series D funding round Will scale its user-generated content platform CurseForge
November 8, 2021 Israeli Investment Voodoo makes "significant" investment into Israeli casual games developer Teskin Developer of Jewels Planet, Jewel Empire and Candy Deluxe
October 25, 2021 Marketing Magnification IronSource acquires mobile marketing outfit Bidalgo Second acquisition during October
October 15, 2021 News IronSource acquires Tapjoy for $400 million The intention is to increase IronSource’s SDK footprint
October 1, 2021 New Way To Pay Voodoo buys Beach Bum to diversify monetisation from ads to IAPs Israeli startup did $70 million in past 12 months
September 9, 2021 Miraculous Toya raises $4 million following Miraculous Ladybug Roblox success Exceeded 200 million plays on the platform
September 3, 2021 Hearing Ads In-game audio ad platform Odeeo raise $1 million in seed funding Suggests in-game audio ads accompany gameplay
September 1, 2021 Entering New Markets Playtika snap up Redecor dev Reworks for up to $600 million Expanding into the growing design category
August 4, 2021 Finding Value Tilting Point acquires publishing rights to Hidden Hotel: Miami Mystery WhaleApp's hidden object game has generated $40 million
June 29, 2021 Launch Better Miraculous RP: Quests of Ladybug and Cat Noir hits one million players on Roblox Zag's IP expands and finds more fans
June 10, 2021 Speed Machine IronSource boosts playable ads toolset, launching Luna Elements Integrates alongside Playable and Replay options
June 10, 2021 Bid Accepted Voodoo acquires user-acquisition expert Bidshake Company launched in January 2020
June 2, 2021 Tel Aviv Hold’em Comunix raises $30 million to scale video chat mobile game Pokerface Series A was led by March Capital
May 11, 2021 Full Vision Supersonic launches new hypercasual analytics plaform LiveGames Part of its new business-focused initiative
May 4, 2021 Out The Nest IronSource launches Supersonic Graduate Program to help hypercasual devs self-publish Learn how to operate independently
April 9, 2021 That's Crazy CrazyLabs exceeds 4 billion downloads Launches its fifth CrazyHub in Warsaw
March 31, 2021 Miraculers Zag Games and CrazyLabs announce Miraculous Ladybug Puzzle RPG Launching alongside holiday season movie
March 11, 2021 International Women's Week "It’s the success and development of female executives that will change perceptions about gaming" Women in Games week continues with Playtika's Jenny Raichel
November 11, 2020 Pgc Digital PGC Digital: CrazyLabs surpasses 3.5 billion downloads across games library The Israelian-based studio has been publishing games for over two decades
July 16, 2020 Get Funded Israel-based games-focused fund VGames committing $30 million to studios in the region "We are privileged to be able to fuel and support new talent"
May 27, 2020 Beta Only IronSource opens up Facebook Audience Network to its in-app bidding platform LevelPlay 70 per cent of its mediation traffic expected to run through in-app bidding by the end of 2020.
February 28, 2020 Backing Out Update: Wooga and IronSource become latest companies to skip GDC due to coronavirus "Ultimately our highest priority is the health"
February 10, 2020 Upward Move Adtech vertical consolidation accelerates as IronSource launches Supersonic Games Will develop and publish hypercasual mobile games