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Confirmed: EA's Nick Earl takes over the studio president's job at mobile-game company Kabam (exclusive)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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[Update: Kabam confirmed our report Monday morning] Nick Earl, a veteran game development executive at Electronic Arts, has taken a job as president of worldwide studios at Kabam, the fast-growing mobile-game company.

Earl was most recently senior vice president and general manager of EA Mobile, the mobile gaming division of the giant game publisher. But after a recent reorganization, Frank Gibeau was named the head of the division. That meant there was less room for Earl at Electronic Arts. Kabam declined to comment, but we have verified the appointment via two independent sources, who are not authorized to talk for Kabam.

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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.