Popcore
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- 51-200
- Offices
- 3
About Popcore
Popcore is a mobile game developer and in-house publisher founded in Berlin in 2018 by brothers Johannes Heinze and Thomas Heinze. It develops accessible casual, hyper-casual and puzzle games for iOS and Android, with an emphasis on short, approachable interactions and satisfying gameplay. Its work spans physics puzzles, hidden-object games and spatial brain teasers.
The studio’s portfolio includes Parking Jam 3D, Pull the Pin, Scavenger Hunt and Tap Away 3D. Other releases include Sandwich!, Clash of Blocks!, Connect the Pops! and Folding Blocks. Across its mobile catalogue, Popcore has surpassed 800 million downloads worldwide. Its leading titles have reached number-one positions on app-store charts.
Development and publishing
Popcore combines game creation with the capabilities needed to publish and maintain its own releases. Its work covers game design and development, live operations, analytics, user acquisition, advertising creative production and performance marketing. This integrated model connects the development of new concepts with testing, distribution and ongoing operation across both major mobile platforms.
Rapid experimentation is central to the studio’s approach. Popcore uses short development cycles to evaluate ideas and refine promising concepts, supported by behavioral data and automated user-acquisition testing. Its technical capabilities include game architecture and internal tooling designed to support repeated prototyping and the maintenance of multiple titles.
Company development
Rollic acquired Popcore in November 2022, bringing the studio into the wider Zynga and Take-Two Interactive mobile games portfolio. Popcore continues to operate as an active development and publishing business within that group. Following the acquisition, it expanded its development presence into Barcelona, while Berlin remained its operational headquarters. The company’s subsequent change of statutory seat to Munich was an administrative corporate transition; its principal development operations remained in Berlin and Barcelona.
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Leadership
As of November 2026, the reported managing directors are Angelika Mittermaier, Paul Collins and Burak Vardal. Vardal is also Rollic’s co-founder and CEO.
Production methods
Popcore calls its rapid development methodology “lean creativity.” Concepts are developed and validated within weeks. Its games use Entitas-powered Entity Component System architecture, with modular, decoupled and reusable code supporting the prototyping and release of multiple games each month.
Corporate milestones
Knallmais Media Lab UG and Puffmais App Manufaktur UG were merged into Popcore GmbH. In late 2024, Popcore entered a profit-and-loss transfer agreement with Rollic Games Germany GmbH.
Notable credits
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Where Popcore is based
- Greifswalder Str. 212, 10405 Berlin, GermanyBerlin, Germany
Berlin office
HeadquartersOperational headquarters, primary development studio and creative labs.
- Ganghoferstraße 70 b, 80339 München, GermanyMünchen, Bayern, Germany
München office
Statutory registered seat and legal domicile under group corporate administration; operational headquarters remain in Berlin.
- Plaça Gal·la Placidia 1-3, 08006 Barcelona, SpainBarcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Barcelona office
Direct regional game development branch operated through Popcore S.L.
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