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Scotland’s Outplay Entertainment acquires mobile game developer Eight Pixels Square

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Scottish mobile studio Outplay Entertainment has acquired another mobile game developer, England’s Eight Pixels Square.

The teams at both companies have decades of experience, and the combination could give them more power in the $36 billion mobile game industry. Dundee, Scotland-based outplay wants to expand its presence in mid-core games and add virtual reality development capabilities.

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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.