Kent Wakeford of Kabam and Malathi Nayak of Reuters.
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Kabam COO says mobile game companies have to get serious about Asia

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s time for North American mobile game developers and publishers to take their apps to the trade routes of Asia.

Kabam‘s chief operating officer, Kent Wakeford, said at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2014 conference that the growth of the Asian mobile device and mobile game markets is so compelling that Western developers have to move into them. That’s kind of a no-brainer, but Western developers need more nudges, since they’ve given the Asian market lip service in the past.

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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.