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Kabam receives $800 million bid for its best asset: its Vancouver studio

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kabam has received an unsolicited bid to sell its successful Vancouver mobile game studio, according to source familiar with the matter.

GamesBeat has learned that a bidder approached Kabam to buy only the Vancouver operation, which made the mobile publisher’s most successful game — Marvel Contest of Champions. It’s also working on Transformers in a partnership with Hasbro. The source asked for anonymity because of the highly confidential nature of the discussions. Another source independently confirmed that the Vancouver studio is in play.

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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.