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Playtika acquires Best Fiends mobile game publisher Seriously

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Israeli social casino gaming giant Playtika has acquired Finnish mobile game publisher Seriously, GamesBeat has learned. The companies confirmed the deal to us, but they did not say what the purchase price was.

We have heard that the price was $275 million. But the company has only confirmed that it has been on a $100 million run-rate for revenues since the beginning of the year and now the run rate is higher.

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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.