Playground: built for Publishers and Media Houses
Games and Puzzles for Digital Publishing
Games and puzzles like Crossword, Sudoku, Solitaire and more word- and arcade-games have become a core component of digital publishing strategies. Playground is a modular publisher games platform that enables publishers and media companies of every size to launch a new games offering or expand an existing one. It drives recurring visits, audience engagement, registrations, subscriptions and the monetisation of digital reach.
Trusted by leading publishers
What Publishers Say
A great opportunity for Le Monde to reach new users and ads business. Since the beginning of our partnership with kr3m we have been extremely satisfied with their product and gaming offer. It is also a pleasure to work with a partner in such a positive & collaborative mindset.
The Blick Group has benefited from kr3m’s expertise in online games and gamification campaigns for several years. This allows us to offer our readers and create a specific advertising environment for our customers. We look forward to our continued cooperation and exploring further opportunities with kr3m in this growing sector.
Working with kr3m is a breeze – their fast, data-driven, proactive team slots games straight into 20 Minuten, delighting readers and creating shared revenue with effortless ease. A true win-win!
Matthias Strodtkötter, Head of Product
With the premium games from kr3m, we offer our subscribers exactly the right added value that our sophisticated readers expect from SZ. The browser games from kr3m are a guarantee for stable reach and new customer contacts.
Beyond the daily news cycle
From additional content to a strategic business capability
High-quality games create recurring interactions beyond the daily news cycle. When deeply integrated into a publisher’s digital products and systems, they become more than an additional content offering: they become a strategic business capability.
Playground supports different starting points through one modular platform, enabling publishers to begin with the implementation that best supports their current objectives and expand as their strategy evolves.
20+
years of experience developing digital games and platform solutions for publishers
The modular publisher games platform
Playground
Audience engagement, registrations, subscriptions and monetisation — deployed fast, with minimal IT effort on your side.
30–50%
User retention
20+ min
Average session duration
+5%
Registrations from all visits
Proven with publisher partners such as BILD, Le Monde and The Mirror.
The complete Publisher Games Platform
Everything needed to run games as a business.
One modular platform. Start with the implementation that fits your current objectives and unlock additional capabilities as your strategy evolves.
High-quality games portfolio
Deep integration into existing publisher ecosystems
Integration of existing games possible
CMS for managing games and editorial content
Registration & Single Sign-On (SSO)
Subscription & paywall integration
Access management for anonymous, registered users and subscribers
AI-powered quiz creation
Built-in engagement features such as streaks, leaderboards and archives
Branded user experience tailored to the publisher
Top-performing games
The most-played online games
The portfolio is deliberately short. A title earns its place in one of two ways: it ranks among the most-searched games on the open web, or it is among the most-played titles across our publisher partners’ portals. Games that do very little for either search traffic or daily engagement are left out — a curated set of proven performers builds habits that a long catalogue of filler never will.
Crosswords
Solitaire
Double
HelloWords
Mahjong
Sudoku
2048
Spelling Hex
Snake
eXchange
Word Lines
Quiz
BubbleShooter
Chess
Word Match
Connect numbers
All games are fully responsive, optimised for search engines, and designed for maximum daily engagement and dwell time.
