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PlayPhone partners with Saudi Arabian mobile carrier to take games to the Middle East

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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PlayPhone is announcing today that it has teamed up with mobile carrier Mobily in Saudi Arabia to take mobile games to the Middle East.

The deal shows that companies are recognizing that huge penetration of smartphones in the region and the vast wealth that enables many of those smartphone owners to pay. Smartphone adoption is growing exponentially in the Middle East.

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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.