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The Startup That Put a Live TV Game Show Inside Your Bingo App
Most bingo apps are you, alone, tapping a screen. Live Play Mobile added a person on the other end - a real host, live, 24/7 - and turned a card game into appointment television you carry in your pocket.
Bagelcode Lost Two Publishers - Here Is the Global Games Playbook It Built Instead
A failed puzzle game, two vanished publishing deals and one strangely popular in-game slot pushed five Korean developers toward a different kind of studio. Bagelcode’s real product is not merely mobile games - it is a system for learning what players will return to.
AGS - American Gaming Systems
The Las Vegas machine-maker spent two decades climbing from tribal bingo halls to the main casino floor. Now private again and freshly rebranded around a lightning bolt, AGS is betting its next act on cabinets, table games, and the screen in your pocket.
DoubleDown Interactive
The Seattle-born social casino pioneer has spent 16 years selling the feeling of a casino without a cash-out. Its next wager is less visible but more consequential: own more of the checkout, broaden into Europe and make an old hit travel further.
ZOOT
ZOOT is a New York-based sweepstakes gaming platform that brings video-game sensibilities to iGaming. Instead of slots and table games, it builds proprietary arcade titles - Crash, Plinko, Mines, Dice and sports-themed variants - playable free with Gold Coins or, via a sweepstakes model, with Sweeps Coins that can be redeemed for cash prizes. Founded by gaming veterans Sean Ryan (ex-Facebook games, OpenWager) and John Cahill (ex-Sega, Yahoo Games), ZOOT raised a $6M seed in June 2025 led by CoinFund with Griffin Gaming Partners, aiming to fold stablecoin payments into gaming and expand from the U.S. to markets across Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa.