Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment Josh Yguado steps down as Jam City leader after 16 years Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 29, 2026 3 min Josh Yguado has stepped down from Jam City after 16 years at the mobile game company he cofounded. He will be replaced by Simon... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment Jam City backs WikiGameJam SF at GDC Festival of Gaming Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 4, 2026 2 min As the global games community descends on San Francisco for GDC Festival of Gaming next week, WikiGameJam will stage a San Francisco game jam.... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin DevelopmentGamesBeat Event Coverage GamesBeat Next | How Jam City and Wikimedia are using games to drive civic engagement Posted byby Alexander Lee November 20, 2025 3 min Jam City and WikiGameJam are looking to leverage the considerable social impact of gaming for the greater good. Media isn’t just a moneymaker. It... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment Jam City launches Disney Magic Match 3D mobile game Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 9, 2025 4 min Mobile game maker Jam City has launched Disney Magic Match 3D, a new casual game developed in collaboration with Disney and Pixar Games. Now... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Mobile game maker Jam City lays off 10% of staff Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 8, 2024 1 min Jam City, the mobile game maker of titles like Cookie Jam, said it has laid off about 10% of its staff in a restructuring... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat Summit: Hollywood and gaming join after a long courtship Posted byby Rachel Kaser June 6, 2024 2 min Game-to-show/film adaptations have officially become A Thing. They’re no longer relegated to little-acknowledged movies or adaptations so loose they verge on spiritual-at-best. Hollywood has... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat Summit 2024: Hollywood and Games — a long-awaited love affair Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes May 15, 2024 3 min Our Hollywood and Games panel — a long-awaited love affair — will take place on May 21 at the GamesBeat Summit 2024 event in... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Jam City appoints Josh Yguado as CEO as Chris DeWolfe leaves for Plai Labs startup Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 19, 2023 7 min Jam City announced that cofounders Chris DeWolfe and Aber Whitcomb have left for a new mobile game startup and Josh Yguado will step up... Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Business Jam City lays off staff as part of ‘restructuring’ Posted byby Rachel Kaser August 4, 2022 1 min Jam City has laid off over one hundred members of the staff today. According to the company, it laid off about 17% of its... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Jam City white paper details Champions Ascension NFT game Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 5, 2022 8 min Jam City is betting big on its first blockchain game, Champions Ascension, and today it disclosed details for the game for fans in a... Continue Reading 8 min