Industry | Cloud computing |
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Founded | 2007 |
Founder | Guy Debeer, Natan Peterfreund |
Defunct | 2 June 2015 [1] [2] [3] |
Headquarters | Caesarea, Israel [4] |
Products | Cloud gaming |
Website | Playcast Media Systems |
EA Israel, formerly GameFly Streaming and Playcast Media Systems, is a cloud gaming service company, based in Caesarea, Israel. [5] [6] [7] In June 2015, Playcast merged with rival cloud gaming company GameFly. [1] Playcast was backed by Venture Capital firms Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and MK Capital. [8] EA acquired the company in 2018. [9]
Playcast Media Systems was founded in 2007 by Mr. Guy Debeer and Dr. Natan Peterfreund. In February 2008, a beta version was installed on a live cable network and latterly a large scale pilot was installed on a Hot cable TV network to test in Israel. [10] [11]
Playcast was among the first gaming-on-demand technology services companies for Cable and IPTV in the world and had partnerships with some of the largest video game publishers in the world, including: Activision, Atari, Disney, Capcom, Codemasters, THQ and Strategy First. [12] [13] [14]
In November 2010, Portugal Telecom and Playcast Media Systems announced the first commercial launch of the new service, available on Portugal Telecom's platform, [15] the service was named Meo Jogos. [16]
In July 2012, Playcast Media System brought its cloud gaming service to over 3.51 million CJ Hellovision subscribers in South Korea. [17]
In October 2013, Playcast cloud gaming service was launched to customers of French fixed and mobile operator Bouygues Telecom; the service was made available on TVs for users of Bouygues Telecom’s Bbox Sensation set-top box, offering instant gaming on more than 50 titles. [18]
In 2014, Playcast launched a cloud gaming app for Amazon Fire TV Microconsole [19]