Forged Of Champions
Kabam's new mobile fighter Transformers: Forged to Fight takes inspiration from its top grosser Contest of Champions
Even the naming convention is the same
Company Profile
Kabam
Website
www.kabam.com
About
Kabam is an interactive entertainment company that creates hardcore free-to-play games for social networks and other platforms with offices in San Francisco, Austin, Beijing, and Luxembourg.
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Kevin Chou
CEO
Tim Fields
VP and GM of Kabam Canada
Cuz Parry
Creative Director
France Jacques
Director of talent acquisition and experience
Seungwon Lee
CEO
Kent Wakeford
COO
Nick Anderson
Head of Publishing
Amer Ajami
Executive Producer
Mike McCartney
Executive Producer
Rob Simister
VP, Business Development EMEA
Daniel Erickson
Creative Director
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Accolades
Articles featuring Kabam
Bidding Contest
Kabam receives $800 million offer for Vancouver studio behind Marvel Contest of Champions
Multiple unknown bidders in for talented team
Live And Kicking
Postmortem: Dawn of Steel one year on
Former Superweapon President Amer Ajami reflects on an eventful year
No Uprising
Kabam shutting down Star Wars: Uprising mobile game
Servers to be taken offline on November 17th 2016
Position And The Puck
Why Larry Abrams thinks it's game over for Kabam
Hard times
Made In Vancouver
Kabam teams up with Hasbro for new Transformers mobile game
Transformers: Contest of Champions
Future Focus
Kabam trims its sails with further San Francisco redundancies
Mindful of costs
High Reward, Risk
For unicorn wannabes like Kabam, the mobile games market is now boom or bust
Can you afford a $20 million bet?
Pandora's Mmo
Kabam bets big on the success of future Avatar films with MMOG tie-in announced
In development in LA
Faster, Harder
Why Marvel: Contest of Champions ditched Android and went auto-play/pay-to-win in China
Kent Wakeford on Chinese changes
Neat Strategy
Kabam acqui-hires Dawn of Steel dev Superweapon to boost its LA studio
Consolidation move
Stark Contrast
Which Marvel games are beating up the US top grossing charts?
Super heroes and villains
Best Of The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016
The shakers, movers and moneymakers
New Job
Kabam's Chris Petrovic now SVP at Zynga
New business challenges
Bigger, Bolder... Fewer
Kabam lays off 8 percent of staff in multiplayer refocus
Exact numbers still vague
Force Multipler
Which Star Wars mobile F2P game took best advantage of The Force Awakens buzz?
EA vs Disney vs Kabam
Kabam Focus
Kabam continues to narrow focus, offloading old mobile titles to Gaea Mobile
Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North and more
Big Bigger Best
#PGCLondon 2016 speaker Kabam’s Rob Simister predicts more winner-takes-all consolidation
What to expect at PG Connects London 2016
We Don't Need Another Hero
Kabam makes a hard decision, canning MARVEL United during soft launch
IAPs closed now, servers to be shutdown later
China Chat
Video: Mobile business experts discuss how to get into China
And whether it's really worth the effort
East Isn't Easy
Video: Kabam's Chris Petrovic on expanding into Asia
"Spoiler alert: not very easy to do."
A Soft Launch
Where's the Up gone from Star Wars: Uprising's grossing performance?
Tracking top grossing game performance
With Great Power...
I've never seen Star Wars but I am playing Star Wars: Uprising
Why devs shouldn't assume shared culture
Iap Inspector
Honed to perfection: the monetisation of Star Wars: Uprising
IAPs from the players' perspective
Up The Pecking Order
Kabam restructures studio management as ex-EA exec Nick Earl departs
CEO Kevin Chou says there's changes at Kabam
Ceasefire
Machine Zone drops trade secret lawsuit against Kabam
Machine Zone says its fears have been "allayed"
Skywalking
How Kabam found balance in the force as it worked on Star Wars Uprising
Daniel Erickson on a star-sized IP
Opportunities
Starting with China, how Kabam is looking to boost Asian revenues beyond 10%
Chris Petrovic on Marvel Contest of Champions' debut
Oops
UPDATE: Machine Zone CEO sues Kabam after party banter turns sour
A Casual Connect party has sparked a lawsuit
Seven Months High
Marvel Contest of Champions is Kabam's fastest game to $100 million revenue
Superhero performance
A New Hope
Kabam finds the licence it was looking for: announces RPG Star Wars: Uprising
Bringing a classic approach from RPGs
Behind The Scenes
Levelling up the mobile RPG: The making of Spirit Lords
Creative director Daniel Erickson takes us behind the scenes
Tag Team
Longtu is publishing Kabam's Marvel Contest of Champions in China
The final frontier
Ultron Alert
Why Marvel Contest of Champions is the perfect game for Avengers: Age of Ultron cross-over
Super heroes squared
Tuning And Time
Delays and roadblocks: the monetisation of Fast & Furious: Legacy
Putting Kabam's movie tie-in through its paces
China Awaits
30 million downloads strong, but how well does Marvel: Contest of Champions monetise?
Valued superheroes
Simply The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2015
The shakers, makers and movers
Marvel-lous
Kabam to launch China assault with Marvel: Contest of Champions
Superheroes to help Kabam break market
Future Earnings
Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14
Switch from monetisation to retention
Long View
Despite dialling back short-term growth, Kabam's sales hit $400 million in 2014
Tweaking for success
Acquisitions
Kabam buys TapZen and Magic Pixel Games
Will be merged into new Los Angeles studio
Interview
Kabam's Petrovic predicts Nintendo will go mobile in 2015
What to expect at PG Connects London 2015
Interview
Kabam on the fun at the core of its skill-based F2P brawler Marvel: Contest of Champions
It's Marvel. Don't mess it up
Restructure
With the $4 billion Chinese mobile game market its big play for 2015, Kabam ditches web games
Sold off to RockYou
Jobs
Ex-EA man Nick Earl appointed Kabam's president of worldwide studios
Moving on
Jobs Board
Zynga appoints Pete Hawley as GM, SkyMobi gets new SVP, and Glu, Telltale, and Kabam all search for new talent
New positions
Deal
Kabam partners with Undead Labs for original mobile RPG Moonrise
Demonstrating it doesn't rely on movie licences
Rising sun: Kabam's president of worldwide studios jumps ship to GREE
Andrew Sheppard set to join Japanese giant
Deal
China in its hands: Kabam signs $120 million publishing deal with Alibaba
Online giant to launch Kabam games in China
Deals
Kabam signs up for free-to-play games based on The Lord of Rings and Mad Max
Extends licensing deal with Warner Bros.