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Kabam lays off a ‘small number’ of employees as it moves to mobile game growth

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kabam confirmed that it laid off a small number of employees who worked on older platforms as the company steers into mobile games.

Spokesperson Steve Swasey confirmed that the San Francisco social game publisher laid off a small number of employees that could not be transitioned from the company’s older web and Facebook platforms to its new emphasis on “triple-A-quality mobile games.” Swasey wouldn’t say how many people were laid off, but he did say that the company has more than 700 employees and has 80 openings as it expands into mobile games such as its hit The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth.

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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.