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Kim Kardashian game maker Glu Mobile lays off some staff

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Glu Mobile, the maker of celebrity mobile games such as Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, has laid off a number of employees, GamesBeat has learned.

San Francisco-based Glu has been making mobile games since 2001, and it is publicly traded. The company reported net income of $8.1 million on revenue of $223.1 million in 2015. Much of the revenue came from the hit celebrity lifestyle game, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. Glu has been running with that strategy, and it has amassed the rights to make games about celebrities who collectively have more than 1 billion social followers. It has released games on Kendall & Kylie Jenner and Katy Perry. And it is preparing games for Britney Spears, Nicky Minaj, Gordon Ramsay, and Taylor Swift.

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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.