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Netmarble acquires Kabam’s top studio in Vancouver, will launch Transformers in Q2

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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South Korean mobile game publisher Netmarble has agreed to acquire Kabam’s Vancouver studio, which has produced the lion’s share of Kabam‘s revenue with the hit game Marvel: Contest of Champions.

Netmarble is acquiring Marvel Contest of Champions, and it is also acquiring the Vancouver studio’s next game, Transformers: Forged to Fight. It should launch in the second quarter, and the deal itself is expected to close in the first quarter. Netmarble nor Kabam disclosed the price. GamesBeat previously reported that Kabam had received a bid of $800 million for the Vancouver studio.

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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.