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Why mobile game maker Roadhouse Interactive ran out of cash

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Roadhouse Interactive was an ambitious mobile game studio in Vancouver. But like many in the treacherous games business, the Canadian company ran out of cash and shut down.

CEO James Hursthouse confirmed that Roadhouse closed earlier this month and laid off its remaining 120 employees. Earlier in the summer, the company laid off 25 people. It started when one of the company’s biggest clients, a publisher of apps, decided to exit the business altogether, Hursthouse said.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. 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.