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Kabam acquires two mobile game studios as it gathers more top talent

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Kabam has acquired two mobile game studios in Los Angeles as it continues to pursue top talent that will make its mobile games stand out from the pack.

San Francisco-based Kabam has acquired TapZen in Culver City, Calif., and Magic Pixel Games in Los Angeles for undisclosed amounts. It will appoint the founder of TapZen, game veteran Mike Verdu, who will run the Los Angeles studio that will combine the two companies. Kabam is adding 40 people through the acquisitions, including Verdu, a veteran of the Command & Conquer franchise at Electronic Arts, and Michael Seegers, the head of Magic Pixel Games and another former EA game creator.

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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.