Sony Pictures launches Smurf’s Bubble Story mobile game

Sony believes in transmedia. The latest example is the launch today of Smurfs Bubble Story, a mobile game that is launching today to coincide with the debut of the animated film Smurfs: The Lost Village.

Culver City, Calif.-based Sony Pictures Television is bubbling with excitement about the bubble-popping mobile game inspired by the animated film from Sony Pictures Animation. Smurfs Bubble Story is now available as a free-to-play download on iOS and Android. This release shows that Sony is just as serious as Nintendo — which has released a few games in the past year — about participating the $40 billion mobile game business.

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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.