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Wargaming shuts down its WG Cells mobile studio

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Wargaming has shut its WG Cells mobile gaming studio in Bellevue, Washington, cutting about 64 jobs, according to a report in Geekwire.

Cyprus-based Wargaming told Geekwire that it was shutting the WG Cells studio, formerly called DropForge Games, just a year after getting it started. It’s a sign of how hard it is to survive in the $36 billion mobile game market, where there’s a ton of competition and acquiring users has become very expensive.

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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.