Gabe Leydon, CEO of then MZ, at MobileBeat 2016.
Gabe Leydon, CEO of then MZ, at MobileBeat 2016.
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Gabe Leydon leaves MZ to focus on crypto, Kristen Dumont named CEO

Cofounder Gabe Leydon is resigning the top post at mobile game publisher MZ (better known in the past as Machine Zone) to focus on his interest in cryptocurrency and real-time messaging. His No. 2 executive, Kristen Dumont, has been named CEO of MZ.

In addition, Vincenzo Alagna, MZ’s chief technology officer of games, has been appointed president of games. That’s a big change for MZ, which has made mobile games such as Game of War: Fire Age, Mobile Strike, and Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire. Those games have generated $4.5 billion since 2014 on iOS and Android alone, according to measurement firm Sensor Tower.

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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.