Jam City is teaming up with Disney.
Jam City is teaming up with Disney.
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Jam City acquires Disney’s Emoji Blitz mobile game studio, cuts multiyear licensing deal

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 3 min

The emojis will be flying at mobile game publisher Jam City today, which just announced a big licensing partnership with Disney in mobile gaming.

Under the deal, Los Angeles-based Jam City will acquire Disney’s Emoji Blitz mobile game studio, and it will also make multiple Disney-based mobile games across a number of years under a broad licensing deal with Disney.

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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.