Skillz is bringing esports to Bowlero.
Skillz is bringing esports to Bowlero.
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Bowlero and Skillz bring mobile esports to bowling centers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 2 min

Skillz is announcing that it will provide mobile esports to Bowlero’s 300 bowling centers as a way to keep fans engaged through digital competition.

The San Francisco-based Skillz has built a platform that adds competitive multiplayer to mobile games, and it now has more than 20,000 game developers, and it says more than 30 million people play Skillz-based games. Skillz has shown that competitive gaming helps keep players engaged and playing the game longer, and it helps game makers better monetize their content.

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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.