Latest Technology News In South Africa
PLAYSTUDIOS was founded in July 2011 by a team led by Andrew Pascal and other gaming and technology executives. Its first major title, myVEGAS, launched in 2012 and linked free-to-play gaming with real-world loyalty rewards, a model the company expanded across additional games and partners.
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GDEV’s operating story dates to 2010, when future founders Andrey Fadeev and Boris Gertsovskiy were running separate social-game studios. Their teams began collaborating in 2012 and combined efforts under the Nexters brand in 2014. The business later became public and evolved into GDEV, a group structure spanning multiple game studios and publishing activities.
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DoubleDown Interactive was founded in Seattle in 2008 and became known for free-to-play social casino games distributed through Facebook and mobile platforms. In 2026 DoubleDown develops and publishes social casino and casual mobile games under a portfolio that combines US operating roots with South Korean ownership.
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Charles Zhang founded the company that became Sohu in the 1990s, initially pioneering Chinese-language internet search and portal services. By 2026 Sohu operates Chinese-language media, video and game services in a market dominated by much larger internet platforms than when the company began.
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Yoshikazu Tanaka created the GREE social-network service as a personal project in 2004 and founded GREE, Inc. in December that year as usage expanded. By 2026 GREE Holdings oversees gaming, live entertainment and other internet businesses, while Yoshikazu Tanaka remains chairman and chief executive.
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Playtika grew from Slotomania and social casino games into a broad mobile portfolio built around live operations, acquisitions, direct payments and SuperPlay.
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Gravity has spent more than two decades extending Ragnarok from a Korean PC MMORPG into a global franchise spanning online games, mobile releases and new formats.
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Ryan Brant founded Take-Two Interactive in 1993 as a video-game publisher and developer during the transition from cartridge and floppy-disk games towards CD-ROM and more cinematic software. The company grew through publishing relationships and acquisitions rather than relying on one internal studio from the beginning.
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Former Apple executive Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts in 1982 with the belief that computer-game creators should be recognised and marketed more like musicians, filmmakers and other artists. The company published games from independent developers and used distinctive album-style packaging that put creators prominently on the product.
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Ding Lei founded NetEase in Guangzhou in 1997 during the early commercial expansion of the Chinese internet. The company first became known through internet services including email, portals and community products before online games became a major growth engine.
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