Playcast app5/24/2023 ![]() “They are the leaders in video game subscription services and bring an established brand, strong publisher relationships and financial resources.”įor the first time, the infrastructure is in place to support streaming video games. ![]() “GameFly is the perfect company to join forces with and bring our game streaming technology to gamers around the world,” said Gadi Tirosh, Managing Partner at JVP and a Playcast Director. Gadi Tirosh from JVP and Bret Maxwell from MK Capital will join the GameFly Board of Directors. Playcast’s Israeli shareholders include Jerusalem Venture Partners, Mer Group and Xenia. We are also very pleased to launch on Amazon Fire TV and make the service available to US consumers.” “This represents the perfect evolution of GameFly by extending its mission of providing the highest quality video games available to gamers however they want to play. “We’re excited to offer the GameFly streaming service worldwide with Playcast’s market ready and scalable technology,” said David Hodess, CEO of GameFly. ![]() Game packs start at $6.99 a month and at launch customers can choose from six gaming packs. Customers are now able to stream a variety of gaming titles from leading brands and independent studios, like Warner Brothers’ acclaimed Batman series, Darksiders II, and Dirt 3. GameFly also announced that Amazon Fire TV will be the exclusive streaming media device for its new service at launch. “GameFly’s introduction of its new streaming video game service should help accelerate the growth of this market considerably.” “The $25 billion video game industry is undergoing major disruption and consumers have expressed strong interest in streaming games, much as they do with TV and movies,” said Michael Moritz, Chairman of Sequoia Capital and GameFly Director. GameFly’s acquisition of Playcast coincides with dramatic growth in media streaming and pairs GameFly’s expertise delivering consumer game rental and subscription services with Playcast’s state of the art technology to create the world’s premier multi-platform, console-quality streaming video game service. Today, the leading video game rental and subscription service GameFly, Inc., announced it will introduce a video game streaming service through its acquisition of Playcast Media Systems, Ltd., the Israel-based cloud gaming platform company.
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