PITO · #1 free game in Iraq

Built in Dubai.Played across the region.

Blueside builds and runs consumer technology at national scale — led by PITO, the platform that became the #1 free game in Iraq.

663K+
registered players
300K+
monthly active players
640K+
app sessions every day
#1
free game in Iraq, App Store & Google Play

Live production figures, October 2026. #1 among all free games in Iraq on 30 May 2026 — ahead of PUBG Mobile, 8 Ball Pool and Roblox.

The company

A Dubai free-zone company running one of the region's fastest-growing consumer platforms.

Blueside General Trading FZCO builds and operates consumer technology and digital entertainment from Dubai Silicon Oasis, alongside its trading activities — with products serving Iraq today and an Arabic-language roadmap across the GCC.

Flagship product

PITO پیتۆ

A mobile gaming and social platform with live multiplayer, voice, chat and stories — built natively in both Kurdish dialects, on iOS and Android.

01Live multiplayer

Real tables. Real opponents. Right now.

Ranked online play across dominoes, okey, backgammon, chess, dama and more — with matchmaking, ladders and friends.

02Classics, rebuilt

Chess, made for its players.

Blitz and rapid ladders, engine-grade fair-play detection and a practice bot — in their own language.

03Physics

Billiards with a real simulator.

A deterministic physics engine replays every shot identically on both phones, with three rule sets.

04Social by design

Voice, chat and wallpapers.

Messaging, voice notes, stickers and in-game voice keep players together between games.

05Spotlight

Stories from the whole community.

Friends' stories and a public Discover feed, with 13+ age protection and moderation built in.

06Identity

Your own character.

Every player builds a character that follows them into every game, card and celebration.

The library

23+ games. One account.

Technology

Engineered like infrastructure.

Every layer is built and operated in-house — apps, real-time servers, data, security and AI — and designed to stay up when hundreds of thousands of people play at once.

Real-time scale
640K+

daily sessions served by 13 real-time game servers, with crash recovery that restores live games after a restart.

Messages
39.7M

delivered through the platform's own chat infrastructure.

Security

Built to be trusted.

Device attestation, signed-token checks on every server, row-level data security and a server-authoritative economy.

Fair play

Cheating doesn't pay.

Statistical engine-assistance detection and rating-farm suppression keep the ladders honest.

Trust & safety

AI moderation, in Kurdish.

Machine-learning image moderation and text filtering across two Kurdish dialects, Arabic and English.

Payments

A complete digital economy.

Apple and Google in-app purchases with server-side verification, virtual currency, gifting and memberships.

AI-native engineering

A product team's output, at a fraction of the size.

Fleets of AI agents with automated testing and deployment safeguards ship features in days, not quarters.

Audience

Prime time, every night.

PITO is where people spend their evenings. Sessions climb through the afternoon and peak just before midnight — the hours when people are relaxing at home, together.

49,515
Evening, 6 pm – midnightRest of the daySessions per hour, Baghdad time · 9 October 2026
11 pm
the peak hour — 49,515 sessions in that hour alone
40%
of the day's sessions happen in the evening
644,710
sessions in a single day
Advertising & partnerships

An audience nobody else reaches.

≈19M

monthly impressions run-rate, with a measured click-through rate of ~0.77%.

Documented in April 2026, when PITO had fewer than 80,000 registered players. The platform is more than 8× larger today.

Inside the product.

A banner carousel across the main menu and 20+ game screens — the most-visited surfaces on the platform, not its edges.

In both dialects.

Every campaign is localized into Sorani and Badini Kurdish by a native team, so it reads naturally to every player.

Measured, end to end.

Impressions, clicks, unique viewers and per-screen breakdowns — numbers you can take to your own leadership.

Ecosystem

Working with leading Iraqi telecom and fintech institutions.

AsiacellFirst Iraqi BankFastPay
Leadership

The people behind it.

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Ali Kamal M. Sami

Leads the group's strategy, partnerships and trading activities from Dubai.

ali.sami@blueside.company
Chief Technology Officer

Rozhyar Ali Kamal

Founder and lead engineer of PITO. Leads technology, product and AI strategy across the group.

rozhyar@blueside.company
The journey

From Dubai to the region.

December 2025

Company formed

Blueside General Trading FZCO is registered in Dubai Silicon Oasis.

2026

PITO launches

#4 on Iraq's App Store charts within 12 hours.

30 May 2026

#1 in Iraq

The #1 free game in Iraq on the App Store and Google Play.

October 2026

663,000+ players

640,000+ sessions every day, across 23+ games.

Next

Arabic & the GCC

Bringing the same playbook to Arabic-speaking audiences across the Gulf.