Playrix's Gardenscapes mobile game.
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Gardenscapes by Russia’s Playrix is Facebook’s game of the year

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook’s Game of the Year award goes to Gardenscapes, a match-3 game created by the relatively unknown mobile game publisher Playrix.

The win is a nice recognition for Playrix, the Vologda, Russia-based company that has quietly become the No. 2 mobile game publisher in Europe, behind Supercell in Finland. Playrix has grown to more than 450 employees on the strength of mobile games such as Gardenscapes, Township, and Fishdom.

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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.