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Canada’s mobile game studio Roadhouse Interactive shuts down

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Canadian mobile studio Roadhouse Interactive has apparently closed down. The developer was making Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, and it employed more than 140 people.

But James Hursthouse, CEO of Vancouver-based Roadhouse, said in a Linkedin update that the company “closed in September 2016,” which coincides with his own departure. If true, it shows further that it’s hard to survive among so many competitors in the $36 billion mobile game industry.

As Vancouver studio, A Thinking Ape, posted a tweet from its offices, where it said it was hosting a “hiring party” for the Roadhouse employees.

We’ve reached out to Roadhouse and Hursthouse for comment. Nodding Frod Interactive, the publisher of Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, said that Roadhouse’s shutdown does not affect the game, whose live operations have been moved in-house at Nodding Frog.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.