Kent Wakeford Archives - Page 2 of 3

Why Kabam cofounder Kevin Chou is diving into esports with Overwatch League’s Seoul franchise

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 12, 2017
4 min

Kevin Chou and Kent Wakeford spent years building Kabam into a mobile gaming giant and selling it (in parts) for more than $800 million to...

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4 min

Kabam’s leaders offer mobile gaming lessons and a bittersweet goodbye

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 9, 2017
14 min

Kabam was one of the most inspiring rags-to-riches stories of modern gaming. Founded in 2008 by former University of California at Berkeley students, it...

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14 min

FoxNext acquires Aftershock, or what is left of Kabam

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 6, 2017
4 min

Fox is getting into the mobile game business as its FoxNext division is acquiring Aftershock, which consists of the remaining assets of mobile game...

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4 min

Kabam’s Kent Wakeford on why mobile gaming is so complicated

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 14, 2016
9 min

Kent Wakeford, the chief operating officer of Kabam, returned to the stage at our GamesBeat 2016 event to talk about how tough the mobile...

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9 min

The DeanBeat: What we learned from GamesBeat 2016

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 5, 2016
5 min

Episode 9 of our GamesBeat series of conferences is over. We heard the Yoda-like wisdom of 105 speakers at our ninth annual GamesBeat event...

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5 min

Kabam to make mobile strategy game based on James Cameron’s Avatar

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 28, 2016
2 min

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...