Kate Gorman is CEO of Fort Mason Games.
Kate Gorman is CEO of Fort Mason Games.
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Zynga veteran Kate Gorman unveils mobile studio Fort Mason Games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Fort Mason Games is coming out of stealth today as a new mobile company focused on creating games that use AI, are social, and are designed to help players relax. The company’s debut is Confetti Casino, a Vegas-style slots game on iOS and Android.

The company is a rare women-run game startup, and its boss is former Zynga director of product Kate Gorman, who joined the Words With Friends company as a 21-year-old intern and went on to start that studio’s flourishing casino slots game business. Gorman left Zynga in 2016 and started Fort Mason Games in San Francisco in that November. And she’s ambitious in her attempt to grab a slice of the $70.3 billion mobile game industry.

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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.