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Jam City’s Josh Yguado: Games are the center of the entertainment universe

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

Jam City president Josh Yguado believes that games have become the center of the entertainment universe. His Los Angeles company would know, as it sits at the intersection of mobile games and Hollywood.

Mobile games are expected to generate $100 billion in revenues in 2020, according to mobile data and analytics firm App Annie. But Hollywood film, music, and other entertainment production has come to a standstill in the pandemic. Games, however, can still be made, and they’re being played more than ever.

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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.