Kabam teams up with Longtu Games to launch Marvel mobile game in China

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 28, 2015
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Kabam and Longtu Games announced today a strategic deal to launch the hit Marvel: Contest of Champions mobile game in China. The move will test whether China’s mobile gamers, who vastly outnumber the gamers in other countries, will welcome Western content.

San Francisco-based Kabam said recently that the Marvel game has been downloaded more than 31 million times since its release late last year. Under the deal, Kabam will modify Marvel: Contest of Champions for the tastes of Chinese gamers under guidance and direction from Longtu. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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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.