Kabam scores big with highest-grossing game on App Store for 2012

Kabam made a name for itself as a maker of hardcore social games on Facebook, but it made an even bigger splash with its first game on the Apple iTunes App Store. Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North placed first on Apple’s list of the highest-grossing apps for 2012.

San Francisco-based Kabam’s first mobile game helped the company grow its revenue more than 60 percent in 2012. The company didn’t say exactly what those revenues will be, but it noted that its 2011 revenue was higher than $100 million. Those are big numbers for a company that was a Facebook-only maker of social games a few years ago. Now, more than 70 percent of revenues come from non-Facebook platforms such as the web and mobile.