Brothers Christian (left) and Kai Wawrzinek of Goodgame Studios.

Goodgame cofounders Kai and Christian Wawrzinek give up operational roles

Goodgame Studios founders Kai and Christian Wawrzinek will give up their positions of CEO and chief strategy officer (respectively) of the mobile game company next February.

The brothers will serve as shareholders of Stillfront, a publisher and developer that merged with Goodgame in 2018 in order to take Hamburg, Germany-based Goodgame public.

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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.