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Kabam restructures to focus only on the biggest mobile game hits

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kabam used to experiment a lot with all sorts of strategy games. But the mobile game company is announcing today that it will focus its 825 employees on a singular push to create games for the top-10 positions on the mobile app stores.

The signals a lot of internal change at San Francisco-based Kabam, including some unspecified layoffs in Kabam’s older businesses, as well as some expansion in other areas.

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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.