Kongregate's leadership team in 2021.
Kongregate's leadership team in 2021.
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Kongregate focuses on building its own idle games for mobile

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kongregate took off as an early platform for free-to-play web games from indie developers. It saw a lot of success and went through some changes in ownership. It’s now  focused on making its own idle and midcore games for mobile devices.

Jim and Emily Greer, a brother-and-sister team, created Kongregate as a website for indie games in 2006. They grew it to more than 10 million monthly users and then sold the company in 2010 to GameStop, which was expanding into digital games. Jim Greer left in 2014, but Emily Greer stayed on as Kongregate’s president.

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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.