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. 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. In November 2010,
Portugal Telecom and Playcast Media Systems announced the first commercial launch of the new service, available on Portugal Telecom's platform, the service was named Meo Jogos. In July 2012, Playcast Media System brought its cloud gaming service to over 3.51 million
CJ Hellovision subscribers in South Korea. 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. In 2014, Playcast launched a cloud gaming app for
Amazon Fire TV Microconsole In 2023, EA Israel was closed down, with the entire staff of dozens being laid off as part of global cutbacks. == See also ==