Kabam’s Kent Wakeford on why mobile gaming is so complicated
Kent Wakeford, the chief operating officer of Kabam, returned to the stage at our GamesBeat 2016 event to talk about how tough the mobile...
Diving into the Samsung app store: slots, mirrors, and a talking cat
Join me on this slightly bizarre dive into the Samsung app store, as I find a talking cat that doesn't talk, a mirror world without much to reflect on, and a frontier with nothing worth exploring.
Kabam teams up with Hasbro to make a Transformers mobile game (update)
Kabam and Hasbro have created a partnership to make a mobile game based on the Transformers franchise. San Francisco-based Kabam said it will make a...
Here’s our agenda for GamesBeat 2016: The Platform Awakens — with 93 speakers
I’ve worked for months to recruit, and sometimes re-recruit, 93 speakers for GamesBeat 2016, our game conference that runs August 1-3 at the beautiful...
Kabam lays off 25 people at its San Francisco mobile game studio
Kabam has confirmed a report that it laid off about 25 people, or 3.5 percent of its global workforce, at its San Francisco mobile...
Are your traditional retention metrics useless?
At Kabam, we believe that the commonly used retention benchmarks today are holding the mobile gaming industry back. Traditional retention metrics simply do not...
Kabam to make mobile strategy game based on James Cameron’s Avatar
Kabam has partnered with Lightstorm Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Film to create a mobile strategy game based on the world of James Cameron’s sci-fi film...
South Korea’s Netmarble uses Marvel to bring its mobile games to the West
Netmarble Games has grown to nearly $1 billion in sales. That’s a long way from its humble beginnings in 2000, when Jun-Hyuk Bang started the...
How Kabam self-published its Marvel mobile game in China — and hit No. 1
More than a year ago, San Francisco-based Kabam announced that it had teamed up with China’s Longtu Games to publish a Marvel mobile game...
Marvel’s Peter Phillips reveals the secret for making superheroes work in games
Warner Bros. has invested heavily in superhero console games like Batman: Arkham Knight. But Marvel Entertainment has taken a different approach. Rather than use...