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iWin acquires PC casual game site JenKat Games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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iWin said today it has agreed to acquire Jenkat Games, a free PC downloadable casual game website.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Jenkat Games Arcade has been installed more than 10 million times, and the site has reached more than 8 million unique users in the past 12 months. The deal shows that acquisitions are still a hot strategy in the games industry. Market advisor Digi-Capital reported that exits in 2014 for game companies exceeded $24 billion.

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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.