Plarium is publishing Rio Match 3 Party.
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Plarium makes match-3 mobile game with Fox’s Rio animated characters

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mobile game publisher Plarium has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox to create Rio: Match 3 Party, a mobile game debuting this spring on iOS and Android.

The title is one more example of a big game company — Plarium has had more than 250 million downloads — and a Hollywood studio getting together to publish a title in the $40 billion mobile game industry, where getting discovered is a big problem.

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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.