Overwatch League begins to take shape as KSV Esports unveils Seoul Dynasty
The Seoul Dynasty is one of the 12 Overwatch League squads, KSV Esports International announced today, giving us a better picture of what Blizzard Entertainment’s pro...
Esports entrepreneurs will take the stage at GamesBeat 2017
GamesBeat 2017 will take place at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6. And we’re delighted to announce our next three...
The DeanBeat: Game industry’s leaders share more wisdom
Summer used to be a slow time for games. After the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game industry show in Los Angeles, everybody...
Why Kabam cofounder Kevin Chou is diving into esports with Overwatch League’s Seoul franchise
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...
Kabam’s leaders offer mobile gaming lessons and a bittersweet goodbye
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...
Netmarble acquires Kabam’s top studio in Vancouver, will launch Transformers in Q2
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...
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...
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...
Introducing our first speakers and theme for GamesBeat 2016: The Platform Awakens
We just finished our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event, and we were pleased with how that went. Now we’re happy to announce today that GamesBeat 2016 will...