07.25.2024

Allianz-Tiriac Asigurari, part of German group Allianz and the representative in Romania of the world’s most valuable insurance brand, is the official insurer of Romanian athletes and of the more

07.11.2024

Early Game has invested EUR900,000 in Relock, a cybersecurity startup created by Polish founders that develops a new API protection technology, as part of a pre-seed round. more

11.22.2023

Online retailer eMAG is launching the fifth online shop-in-shop which is dedicated to games and toys and groups more than 250,000 products from the own offer and that of sellers present on the online more

06.26.2023

Swiss digital game developer Miniclip, backed by Chinese giant Tencent, this spring acquired a further 8% in local game developer Green Horse Games, in which it had become a majority stakeholder in more

09.30.2022

Firebyte Games (FRB.RO), the first mobile game developer listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange in spring 2021, ended the first half of 2022 with a net profit of RON1.4 million versus a loss of almost more

12.08.2021

Poland’s mobile games studio Ten Square Games’ office in Bucharest, which opened in 2021, plans to expand the local team and has several positions currently open for roles such as Java solution more

11.10.2021

Vlad Alexandru and Cristina Sucu, two entrepreneurs owning two play spaces in Bucharest under the name of Kiddo Smartplay, are set to open the third such space, under the name of Hype Arena by Kiddo. more

09.09.2021

Romanian video game developer Amber reported turnover worth RON50 million in the first six months of 2021, up 45% against the year-earlier period, and expects revenues to grow 36% to RON117 million by more

04.05.2021

Mobile game developer Firebyte Games will start trading its shares on the AeRO market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Tuesday (April 6) under the ticker symbol FRB. more

04.01.2021

Mobile game developer Firebyte Games, a subsidiary of BRK Financial Group, will go public on the AeRO market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange on April 6 under the ticker symbol FRB after a successful more

02.23.2021

Swiss digital game developer Miniclip has become majority shareholder in Green Horse Games, a Romanian company founded in 2013 by George Lemnaru. The transaction marks Miniclip’s entrance on the more

02.15.2021

Mobile game developer Firebyte Games on Monday closed a private placement of shares in a share capital hike, raising RON4.93 million, BRK Financial Group said in a market report. more

12.07.2020

Toy retail, a rising market in the past few years, ended 2019 with 1 billion lei total sales by the companies in the business of retail sale of games and toys in specialized stores, Trade Register more

08.14.2020

Sales of video games could grow by 11% in Romania in 2020 compared with 2019, market research company Euromonitor says, and the growth rate will be double on this market segment, amid the lockdown more

09.24.2018

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05.30.2018

French-held video games developer and publisher Ubisoft, one of the largest on the global market, posted growth of 15% in revenue to 193.6 million lei (EUR42.4 million) last year. more

04.12.2017

Romania’s toy and games market is valued at approximately EUR160 million, without considering the figures generated by computer games or consoles, a continuously growing field, with a strong more

08.09.2016

The Romanian toys and games market overshot the one billion lei (EUR224 million) mark last year, an increase of 9% on 2014, following the upward trend of the last few years as a result of the rising more

04.19.2016

Businessmen Catalin Butnariu, Dragos Hancu and Jaime Gine set up the first video games incubator in Romania, Carbon, which provides direct financing of up to $50,000/project, as well as personalized more

03.09.2015

Investment fund Catalyst Romania, administered by 3TS Capital, bought a minority stake in social gaming company Green Horse Games, founded by George Lemnaru and Alex Stroe, through an investment more

02.17.2015

Hypermarket chains control almost 30% of Romania’s game, console and toy market, valued at 880 million lei (almost EUR200 million) in 2014, a bigger share even than that of specialized stores, a more

02.05.2015

Danish-held Lego, which entered directly in Romania in 2011, have become the second most important traditional toy and game brand in Romania by market share, according with information provided by more

01.30.2015

The record sales of Apple’s new iPhone models - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, will generate an about 10% increase in the revenue of Romanian-held Atypical Games, which develops games for the IOS more

07.18.2014

Romania has just 102 toy producers left, with overall revenue of RON134 million (EUR30 million), with the 20 largest of them contributing over 90% of total revenue, according to Trade Registry (RECOM) more

06.03.2014

The “bricks” of toy producer Lego are now sold in 200 stores in Romania, led by hypermarket chains and specialized stores, around two years after the Danish giant’s direct entrance on the more