Gamasutra: Peak Games -- one of the largest social gaming companies in Turkey -- has secured a round of $5 million in funding, the company said Wednesday.
Hasbro is being sued by Turkish developer Peak Games for copyright infringement concerning the new My Little Pony mobile game.
Gamesauce says: "In 2009, Turkey emerged as a compelling outlier in Facebook’s global social network audience. The male-dominated, primarily Islamic audience comprised nearly 75 percent of the total population of the country. Game companies the world over looked to this surprisingly vibrant online social market with avarice. While many knew that their Turkish players were a highly-engaged, low-cost component of their global mix, most viewed Turkish players as an interesting anomaly, but continued to pursue primarily North American and Western European players as their “core” money-making audience.
Most companies, but not Peak Games."
The Middle East and North African region has been a strong growth area for Peak Games
Peak Games
As the game industry continues to grow in the mobile and social media market, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have become one of the strongest growth regions. Publisher Peak Games is one of the leaders in the region, with 300,000 concurrent users (CCU) and 11.8M daily active users (DAU) across Turkey and MENA.
Didn't realize how hypersensitive people are to this comment, I apologize- being that this statement could be said about any region of the world that has excessive violence, I didn't realize how offensive this would be.
I agree with Bob. Games relieve stress. Living in a dessert is stressful as hell. Its possible video games help keep some people away from violence.
