Kent Wakeford, chief operating officer of Kabam, at GamesBeat Summit.
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Why Kabam is shifting to the deep end of mobile games with big budgets

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SAUSALITO, Calif. — Mobile game maker Kabam sent a wake-up call to the industry a couple of weeks ago when it announced that it would restructure to focus its 825 employees on making only top-10 mobile games, because that’s where the money is.

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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.