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Disney will close FoxNext’s Fogbank Entertainment game studio

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Disney is closing the FoxNext-owned game studio Fogbank Entertainment in San Francisco and laying off an estimated 60 people, GamesBeat has learned.

The move isn’t a surprise, as Disney sold most of FoxNext Games to mobile publisher Scopely as part of its strategy to focus on licensing games to external game companies to make games based on Disney and Fox properties. Fogbank was not included in the purchase. Disney declined to comment on the closure.

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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.