Josh Yguado (right), president of Jam City, talks with Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat/Facebook: Driving Game Growth.
Josh Yguado (right), president of Jam City, talks with Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat/Facebook: Driving Game Growth.
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How Jam City views growth for mobile games in 2021

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Jam City president Josh Yguado said he is optimistic that the game industry can continue to grow in 2021, despite the challenge of having to beat record growth numbers for 2020.

Yguado made the remarks at the GamesBeat/Facebook: Driving Game Growth event today. The Los Angeles-based Jam City is one of the biggest U.S. mobile game companies, with titles such as Cookie Jam and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. The company has had more than a billion downloads and more than 30 million players.

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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.