{"rewrite":{"id":"r_6b6b93d3f73a479b3ee1ee94","clusterId":"c_a7ca3c8810f05e72aa1aae71","slug":"scopely-expands-barcelona-hub-behind-saga-game-fest-2026","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Scopely Expands Barcelona Hub Behind SAGA Game Fest 2026","summary":"Scopely now runs a Barcelona office with more than 1,000 staff across its Barcelona and Seville bases, which it calls the largest game company in Spain. The office works on MONOPOLY GO!, Stumble Guys, Star Trek Fleet Command, Scrabble GO, and Yahtzee With Buddies, and houses Playgami and the FLAMED creative lab. Scopely was founded in Los Angeles in 2011 and was acquired by Savvy Games Group in 2023.","whyItMatters":"A US company acquired by a Saudi group is now concentrating engineering, LiveOps, production, its platform team, and its ad lab on one Spanish office tied to Pokemon GO, which shows how much of the mobile games workflow has moved away from the US and Japan.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eBarcelona, not Los Angeles, is where Scopely keeps its European base, and 4Gamer.net notes the office works on MONOPOLY GO!, Stumble Guys, Star Trek Fleet Command, and casual titles such as Scrabble GO and Yahtzee With Buddies. The same site also houses Playgami, the company\u0026#39;s internal technology platform, and FLAMED, an in-house lab that produces advertising and marketing work.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScopely was founded in Los Angeles in 2011 and acquired by Saudi Arabia\u0026#39;s Savvy Games Group in 2023 for 4.9 billion dollars. Scopely Barcelona opened in 2017 with five members.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Scopely calls its Barcelona and Seville offices the largest game company in Spain, and the Barcelona hub runs MONOPOLY GO! and Stumble Guys. SAGA Game Fest gives that operation a public face beyond the games themselves.","twitterPost":"Scopely's Barcelona hub runs MONOPOLY GO! and Stumble Guys, and the company calls its Spanish bases the largest game company in Spain.","threadsPost":"Scopely's Barcelona and Seville offices are behind MONOPOLY GO!, Stumble Guys, and Scrabble GO, and the company calls that operation the largest game company in Spain. SAGA Game Fest is the first public window into a studio whose output most players already know without knowing the name.","newsletterBlurb":"Scopely keeps its European base in Barcelona, with more than 1,000 staff across Barcelona and Seville. The office runs live operations and production on MONOPOLY GO!, Stumble Guys, Star Trek Fleet Command, Scrabble GO and Yahtzee With Buddies, and houses the Playgami platform team and the FLAMED creative lab.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/991/G999110/20261010010/\",\"title\":\"First look inside Scopely, the company that turned Barcelona into a key development hub in Southern Europe; introducing a mobile game company that is relatively familiar in Japan\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4649,"outputTokens":641,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791625027,"createdAt":"2026-10-10T09:31:18.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T09:36:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T09:36:05.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_a7ca3c8810f05e72aa1aae71","canonicalTitle":"バルセロナを南ヨーロッパの重要開発拠点へと進化させたScopelyに初潜入。日本にもわりと身近なモバイルゲーム企業を紹介","representativeArticleId":"a_fac0401d594ecc3ad9dca1dd","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[\"Scopely\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"business\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-10T08:39:28.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-10T08:39:28.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T09:36:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"4Gamer.net","url":"https://www.4gamer.net/games/991/G999110/20261010010/","title":"バルセロナを南ヨーロッパの重要開発拠点へと進化させたScopelyに初潜入。日本にもわりと身近なモバイルゲーム企業を紹介"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":["Scopely"],"people":[],"type":"business","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}