Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat speakers with Robert Antokol, CEO of Playtika.
Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat speakers with Robert Antokol, CEO of Playtika.
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Robert Antokol: Mobile gaming sees more changes in 6 months than other industries see in years

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Every few months, I’ve stayed in touch with Robert Antokol, CEO of Playtika, a mobile game firm with projects like Slotomania and a $7.3 billion valuation. And I’ve had to ask him what he thinks about the state of the gaming industry. We’ve had this conversation because so much as changed.

“It’s a very big question because a lot of things have happened in our very big industry,” Antokol said. “Every six months in our time is like four or five years in other industries. We are in really different times. But I can tell you that in this new time there are a lot of new opportunities coming.”

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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.