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EA Israel, formerly GameFly Streaming and Playcast Media Systems, is a cloud gaming service company, based in Caesarea, Israel.[1][2][3] In June 2015, Playcast merged with rival cloud gaming company GameFly.[4] Playcast was backed by Venture Capital firms Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and MK Capital.[5] EA acquired the company in 2018.[6]

History

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.[7][8]

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.[9][10][11]

In November 2010, Portugal Telecom and Playcast Media Systems announced the first commercial launch of the new service, available on Portugal Telecom's platform,[12] the service was named Meo Jogos.[13]

In July 2012, Playcast Media System brought its cloud gaming service to over 3.51 million CJ Hellovision subscribers in South Korea.[14]

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.[15]

In 2014, Playcast launched a cloud gaming app for Amazon Fire TV Microconsole[16]

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