PierPlay cofounders Lorenzo Nuvoletta, Scott Jablow, and Don Adriano.
PierPlay cofounders Lorenzo Nuvoletta, Scott Jablow, and Don Adriano.
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Scopely acquires Scrabble Go developer PierPlay

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Scopely has acquired game development studio PierPlay, the maker of the recently launched Scrabble Go mobile word game.

The deal follows a pattern where Scopely partners with an external game studio, launches a game, and then acquires the studio if the game is particularly successful. That’s what happened in 2019 when Scopely bought Digit Game Studios, maker of its successful Star Trek: Fleet Command mobile game. The price of the PierPlay deal 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.