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PrizePicks
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Customers who use PrizePicks’ fantasy sports gaming platform can choose specific athletes and make wagers on their over/under-game performance, statistics, and totals. From the NBA and NFL to esports leagues for tactical shooter games like Counter-Strike, gamers have a wide variety of leagues from which to choose players. Play on PrizePicks is purely fictitious, but wagers and winnings are made in actual cash.
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Electronic Arts (EA)
Location: Redwood City, California
Triple-A juggernaut Electronic Arts is well-known for its lucrative line of sports games created by the studio’s EA Sports branch, as well as timeless classics such as The Sims and Need for Speed. Studio-within-a-studio EA Mobile shrinks those titles for your pocket while also developing independent iOS and Android solutions. Furthermore, it is the home of mobile inventor PopCap Games, which released the tile-match megahit Bejewelled series as well as the much-loved Plants Vs. Zombies. In 2021, EA purchased prominent mobile game publisher Glu Mobile.
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Ubisoft
Location: San Francisco, California
Ubisoft, widely recognized for its iconic franchises such as Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, continues to leave its imprint in all aspects of the game business, including mobile. Gamers are currently able to look forward to playing titles like Just Dance Now, Brawlhalla, and Assassin’s Creed Rebellion on their mobile phones or tablets.
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Activision Blizzard
Location: Santa Monica, California
Activision Blizzard may have one of the most distinguished portfolios among gaming behemoths. A strong lineup includes Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush. Furthermore, the company recently published Warcraft Arclight Rumble, solidifying its position in the rapidly expanding mobile gaming market.
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Jam City
Location: Culver City, California
Jam City had already turned Hollywood IP into mobile-gaming gold before partnering with Disney, including a hit Family Guy game and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, which reputedly grossed $150 million. Riding these success waves, Jam City has now raised over $350 million in funding and is poised to be a big contributor to the mobile gaming scene for many years to come.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment
Location: Culver City, California
Sony Pictures Entertainment aims to enter the mobile gaming sector, expanding its media empire. Sony’s mobile game lineup includes Wheel of Fortune, Men in Black, Jeopardy!, and Hotel Transylvania. The corporation also owns the intellectual property rights to a slew of titles, implying that it might significantly expand its mobile game portfolio in the near future.
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Niantic
Location: San Francisco, California
No one has done more to popularise augmented reality than Niantic, the mobile developers behind 2016’s biggest cultural sensation/thinkpiece generator Pokemon Go, not to mention PG’s spiritual and technological forerunner, Ingress, and its follow-up Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Even years after its introduction, PG continues to attract millions of active users. Similarly, Wizards inspires large-scale meetups and hunts, further associating the developer’s name with get-outside geolocation gaming.
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Nintendo
Location: Redmond, Washington
Only cockroaches and Mario will be left after the apocalypse. Nearly four decades after the plumber originally known as Jumpman debuted, the most famous video game company’s flagship character is still alive and well. As of this writing, Nintendo’s selection is creating waves in the mobile gaming sector. Mario Kart Tour, in particular, has been a top success for Android and iPhone users, carrying on the Nintendo legacy.
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Microsoft
Location: Redmond, Washington
When most people think of Microsoft, they think of laptops and tablets, but the corporation is quietly becoming a force in mobile gaming. Customers are already familiar with Microsoft’s mobile versions of Sudoku, Solitaire, and Mahjong. With the impending acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft may add another layer to this selection as it seeks to establish itself in the gaming sector.
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Pocket Gems
Location: San Francisco, California
Pocket Gems came into its own three years after its inception, in 2012, by forging a bold new narrative and visual path. Its successive hit titles, Episode and War Dragons — created with proprietary software named Mantis Engine that provides 3D graphics and real-time, synchronous multiplayer gameplay — drew the attention of China-based Tencent, the world’s largest gaming company. It was followed by the robot fighter saga Wild Beyond.
