Russia’s Crazy Panda hits 110M users for its social poker games and other titles

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 11, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
1 min

Here’s another entry from the giant game companies that Westerners have never heard of. Crazy Panda is announcing today that it has surpassed 110 million registered users for its entire game portfolio, which includes the flagship poker game World Poker Club.

But like other international game companies, Moscow-based Crazy Panda wants to be known in the West. The company is now expanding into Western Europe and North America with its mobile and social games.

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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.