Sweet Escapes is the latest casual puzzle game.
Sweet Escapes is the latest casual puzzle game.
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AppLovin invests in Sweet Escapes mobile game developer Redemption Games

AppLovin, a mobile marketing company that also owns a game studio, has made an investment in Sweet Escapes mobile game developer Redemption Games. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The San Diego area-based Redemption Games is the brainchild of cofounders Michael Witz and Dan Lin, who led the team that designed and developed the chart-topping Cookie Jam (a top match-3 game that Jam City published), with what it claims is more than $500 million in lifetime sales.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.