Pine Games founders, left to right: Yasin Yıldırım, Burak Sarp, and Yanki Yagiz Akpek.
Pine Games founders, left to right: Yasin Yıldırım, Burak Sarp, and Yanki Yagiz Akpek.
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Pine Games raises $2.25M to make mobile games in Istanbul

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Pine Games has raised $2.25 million at a valuation of $10 million to make mobile games in Istanbul, Turkiye.

Pine Games will focus on the casual mobile gaming sector, with a distinct focus on crafting innovative, intellectual property (IP)-based puzzle games tailored for a broad audience.

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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.