Iron Man character from Marvel: Contest of Champions at ChinaJoy in 2015.
Iron Man character from Marvel: Contest of Champions at ChinaJoy in 2015.
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Kabam lays off 25 people at its San Francisco mobile game studio

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kabam has confirmed a report that it laid off about 25 people, or 3.5 percent of its global workforce, at its San Francisco mobile game studio.

The news, first reported in Gamasutra, shows that the $36 billion mobile game industry is still a difficult business even for a company that has games based on popular Marvel and Warner Bros. properties. Kabam makes games such as Marvel: Contest of Champions.

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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.