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FoxNext acquires Aftershock, or what is left of Kabam

Fox is getting into the mobile game business as its FoxNext division is acquiring Aftershock, which consists of the remaining assets of mobile game publisher Kabam that were not sold to Netmarble.

The deal is an end to Kabam’s novel approach to selling itself by breaking itself into different parts. And the acquisition shows that Hollywood has a growing appetite for games as the growth of film and TV slow down. Aftershock has a studio in Los Angeles and a team of game developers in San Francisco. Its one announced title is a game based on James Cameron’s Avatar films, under a license from Fox’s 20th Century Fox film studio.

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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.