Culver City-based mobile game company Scopely has acquired another studio: Scrabble GOdeveloper PierPlay. Also headquartered in Culver City, PierPlay has been a partner with Scopely since its formation in 2016, collaborating on Scrabble GO, a virtual version of the popular word game that launched this January.
The game currently boasts more than 2.5 million daily users and 10 million total installs, and ranked as the most-downloaded word game at launch.
PierPlay's co-founder and CEO Lorenzo Nuvoletta — a mobile game vet who previously worked at Candy Crush developer King and Israeli studio Playtika — will continue to manage the studio.
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