StockRise is now owned by PiP World.

PiP World acquires high-grossing stock simulator game StockRise

PiP World, a social gaming and edtech company, has acquired Roblox’s highest-grossing stock simulator game, StockRise.

StockRise has seven million plays and Dubai-based PiP World plans to bring them into its blockchain-based play-to-earn ecosystem. The purchase price was not disclosed.

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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.