Grateful for moments like these! ✨ Reconnecting with the team, reflecting, and sharing some fun. A huge thank-you to our Ukenites for their hard work, resilience, and commitment throughout 2025. We’re excited for what’s ahead. Here’s to an incredible 2026! 💙 #Uken #mobilegames #HolidayEvent #Grateful
About us
We’re an independent game studio based in 🇨🇦. Uken builds games that people love. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Jeopardy! World Tour are the top 2 trivia games, engaging millions of global players every month. Ava’s Manor Solitaire is a relaxing tripeaks solitaire game where players renovate the manor while uncovering mysterious clues as a romantic love story develops between our cast of characters. We consider ourselves data-driven designers, technologists, and artists. Through collaboration, we pair the craft of design with feedback and data to deliver a pace and rhythm in each game session that immerses our audience and leaves them wanting more. We have a quirky, nerdy culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, quality ideas, and a data-driven mindset. We believe in moving quickly and improving constantly, and that mantra is reflected in the weekly updates we make to our games and internal technologies. We have an appetite for pushing technical boundaries but with a focus on practical use. We take entertainment seriously!
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https://www.uken.com
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- Industry
- Computer Games
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Ontario
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2009
- Specialties
- Mobile Games, Social Games, Fun, Awesomeness, Technology, Unity, Data Driven Design, Entertainment, Serious Entertainment, Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Game Publisher, PC Games, Console Games, Games, Game Development, Marketing, Gaming, Free-to-Play Games, and Digital Games
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Congrats to our Founder & CEO, Chris Ye, on receiving the Schulich Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship & Innovation! This recognition is a testament to Chris’s vision, resilience, and commitment to building great products, empowering teams, and fostering an environment where creativity and experimentation thrive. #leadership #entrepreneurship #innovation #schulich #gamingindustry https://lnkd.in/gKZdk5kZ
✨ An Evening of Celebration and Connection ✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us for the revamped 2025 Alumni Recognition Awards, presented by TD Insurance — a night filled with pride, inspiration, and community that also celebrated Schulich’s 60th Anniversary. Congratulations to our 2025 award recipients: 💙 Sasha Krstic (IMBA ’03) – Outstanding Executive Leadership 💙 Michael O. Lewis (MBA ’09) – Outstanding Progress & Achievement 💙 Dr. Eileen de Villa (MBA ’03) – Outstanding Public Contribution 💙 Chris Ye (BBA ’08) – Outstanding Innovation & Entrepreneurship And a special thank you to our Emcees, Fotini Iconomopoulos (MBA ’05) and Keith Loo (MBA ’12), for bringing such energy and warmth to the evening. 💚 Here’s to our global alumni community — and the incredible impact you make every day. 📸 Check out the highlights! View the gallery: https://lnkd.in/gsPrzMfS 🔗 Read full story here: https://lnkd.in/gbvkvkkA #AlumniRecognitionAwards #SpottedAtSchulich #SchulichAlumni #SchulichCommunity #GlobalImpact #SchulichProud Karina Butzek-Morris, Director, Alumni Engagement, Schulich School of Business; Christina Niederwanger, Executive Director, Advancement & Alumni Engagement, Schulich School of Business; Fotini Iconomopoulos (MBA ’05), Negotiation Consultant & Author, Forward Focusing; Sasha (Aleksandra) Krstic (IMBA ’03), Executive Vice President, Security Solutions, Mastercard; Dr. Eileen De Villa (MBA ’03), Former Medical Officer of Health, City of Toronto; Michael O. Lewis (MBA ’09), Managing Partner, Financial Services, Amrop; Chris Ye (BBA ’08), Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Uken Games; Detlev Zwick, Dean, Schulich School of Business; Pam Laycock, (MBA ’89), President, Global Alumni Network, Schulich School of Business; and Keith Loo (MBA ’12), CEO & Co-Founder, Skinopathy
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Honored to be recognized once again as a Best Workplace in Ontario! A huge thank you to our incredible team for continuing to challenge, innovate, and bring our culture to life every day. 💙 https://lnkd.in/ejQAmDPf
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We’ve been made aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please note that Uken emails will never come from a Gmail or other personal account. We will never ask for personal information (like your SIN, banking details, or ID) until a formal job offer is made. Job offers are made after a formal evaluation process is complete which includes interviews. If you receive a suspicious message, you can verify its legitimacy at jobs@uken.com. Thanks for your attention and interest in Uken.
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Last week, our team attended the XP Game Summit in Toronto! A big thank you to Alexei for delivering a skillfully crafted and technically insightful talk about our work at Uken. This year's keynotes proved that these insights and growth trends we shared together at XP affect every aspect of our industry. Our team will take every piece of perspective and knowledge home to keep building Uken strong! Great conversations, great people, and an inspiring event all around! #XP25 #ukengames #torontogamesweek #mobilegames
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More exciting news! https://lnkd.in/gS8hhBTv
Uken Games is excited to partner with Mattel, Inc. to develop and publish Mattel Match: Toybox Unlocked! It’s been great working with Erika & her team. While it’s still early days (we entered soft launch this week), we are excited to bring this title to more players around the world in the coming months! https://lnkd.in/gm-rt7Pf
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Uken Games turns 15 this month! Fifteen incredible years of building games, growing communities and having fun along the way. We couldn't bring our passion to life without our incredible team who make the magic happen every day! #ukenturns15 #ukengames #mobilegames #teamwork
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Attend the summit and hear from our talented team member Alexei Zenin! https://lnkd.in/g6bw9uXA
Ready for the largest gathering of industry knowledge on the East Coast of North America this year? XP Game Summit 2025 will feature 50+ talks, panels, and workshops. #XP25 is where knowledge meets opportunity - and with this reveal of expert-led programming there is a LOT of knowledge! Jack Cooney, Director of Nerd Agency - Get Rich At A Reasonable Pace Dr. Poling Bork, Founder, Researcher, Coach of Vocal - Play to Speak: How Serious Games Can Help Children Find Their Voice Drekken Pownz, Founder of VersusAI - Bots Don’t Sleep: AI QA for Games That Launch Smoother Garry Seto, Co-CEO, Head of Studio of Massive Damage, Inc. - Indie to AA: A Tale of Bold Ambition and Harsh Reality Alexei Zenin, Senior Software Developer at Uken Games - Uken’s 10x Monitoring Win: Datadog Out, Open Source In Jamie Hurcomb, Academic Advisor at Epic Games Education - Epic Games Ecosystem & Transmedia Storytelling Elyot Grant, CEO and Game Director of Lunarch Studios - 30 Puzzle Design Lessons From The World's Greatest Puzzle Communities Kristian Roberts, CEO of Nordicity - The Audience Imperative: Building Live Time Value of Indie Game Companies Julien Coll, Co-Director of Operations at Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique - CDRIN - R&D in Gaming - What's Next? David Elton, Interactive Entertainment Consultant - A Whole New World(s): Taking game technology and game theory outside of the video game space. Edith-Julie Arseneault, Founder and Trademark Agent at MINTBOX - Level Up Your IP Strategy Check out the programming so far and start planning your days at https://lnkd.in/gUjfi-TM
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On Sunday, Team Uken participated in the Sporting Life 10k in support of Campfire Circle. We're incredibly proud to support a cause that brings joy and healing to kids and families affected by childhood cancer. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who donated, fundraised, and cheered us on. #SL10K #CampfireCircle #TeamUken
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Great to be a partner of the XP Game Summit 2025! Come out to network, learn and join conversations with our game community! https://lnkd.in/g5eRca6Z
A big thank you to Uken Games for being a valued partner of XP Game Summit 2025! Your continued support helps power the connections, conversations, and momentum that move our industry forward. We’re grateful to have you as part of the XP community. #XP25 #ThankYou
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