Magic Jigsaw Puzzles has had more than 100 million downloads.
Magic Jigsaw Puzzles has had more than 100 million downloads.
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ZiMad moves beyond jigsaw puzzles as it expands mobile game publishing

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It’s hard to believe that jigsaw puzzles would be a defensible and big moneymaker in mobile and PC games. But that’s how ZiMad built its foundation as a mobile game developer and publisher. It started in 2009 and now has more than 300 employees in 20 countries.

How the company is in acquisition mode, said Aleksey Tishakov, chief marketing officer, in an interview with GamesBeat. The company is also hiring remote workers in the U.S. and Europe.

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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.