Kabam bullish about IPO chances, but firm is 'following its own timeframe'
Steve Swasey: "We do everything purposefully"
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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Interview
The European equation: How Kabam plans to ride the Berlin boom
Andrew Sheppard talks up the firm's quest for continental glory
Booming in Berlin: Kabam looking to build on its new European base
Getting its game on in Germany
On The Up
Kabam expects 2014 sales to be at least $550 million
That's growth of more than 35%
Diary Of A Promiscuous Gamer
Week of the Big Uninstall
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
The Global View
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2014
The shakers, makers and movers
Gdc 2014
Kabam reveals the three pillars to mid-core mastery
How Fast & Furious 6 hit 48 million downloads
Stars In Their Eyes
Kabam hires Chris Petrovic as studio looks to woo Hollywood
Courting the core gamer
Acquisition News
Kabam acquires RPG dev Phoenix Age for a rumoured $90 million
Secret sources point to dollar figure
Vlambeer pours cold water on GameOn's 10 million development fund
Could hurt stability and creativity, says Ismail
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: King's going to IPO on the back of $1 billion Candy Crush Saga sales while Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Kabam 'actively considering' IPO as eyes turn to King
Wants to ensure market 'understands F2P'
Monetizer: Epic Empire
Pocket Gems' action-RPG town-builder mash-up
A new flow: The making of Dark District
How Kabam reinvented mobile strategy
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: One big arrival and a massive clear out
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Kabam announces 2013 revenues of $360 million
Year-on-year growth was 100 percent
Monetizer: Dark District
Rethinking the Clash of Clones
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Heroes of Dragon Age tries my patience and wallet
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Monetizer Special: 8 games with very weird IAP economies
Some clever and some stupid decisions revealed
Monetizer Special: Categorising F2P games via their average IAP price
It's time for a new metric
Monetizer Special: IAP economic trends during 2013
Consolidation around de facto standards
Monetizer: Heroes of Dragon Age
Westernising the card-battler
'This is not a zero-sum game' says Kabam's Andrew Sheppard as the $325M outfit prepares for 2014
We're not competing with Supercell, GungHo or King
Kabam COO Chris Carvalho to step down
While current executive VP Wakeford will step up
Hall of Fame: Kevin Chou
Kabam's CEO on the explosive rise of F2P gaming
Monetizer: Heroes of Camelot
Is Kabam playing its card right?
Kabam lays off 23 staff as mobile move ramps up
Imperium: Galactic Wars also closed
Google Ventures part of the group that reinvested in Kabam
Light shed on recent $38.5M placement
Following $38.5 million share sale, Kabam now valued at $700 million
Rumours about IPO grow
Kabam kickstarts layoffs as company shifts towards mobile development
But 200 new employees inbound
#GDC 2013: You can't just port your browser game to mobile, argues Kabam
Lessons learned from Kingdoms of Camelot
Kabam shapes for global mobile expansion, hires Glu SVP DeLaet
Looking to spread US success wider
They're All Hot
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2013
The shakers, makers and movers
Kabam unlocks the potential of its midcore audience, publishing 15 mobile and web games
50 third-party games live by end of 2013
Casual Connect Europe: Achievement unlocked Kabam lifts the lid on the 'midcore' gamer
Defined the undefined market
Kabam reveals 2012 sales of $180 million, 80% from mobile games
Midcore publisher raising the bar
New Year, New Job: Kabam on why knowing your analytics is everything
Foundation of game management
Kabam: PVP success is great, but we're looking 'beyond core' gaming in 2013
More platforms, genres and games inbound
Kabam heralds 'landmark year' as Kingdoms of Camelot is named iPhone's top grossing
Has stat-fest to celebrate
Update: Kabam adds Warners and MGM to its investor list
Builds on The Hobbit IP play
No small deal: Kabam partners with Warner to snap up The Hobbit
Games bound for mobile and web
Kabam's Andrew Sheppard on how the 500-strong core social gaming giant is committed not just to success but the process of success
Adding Android to its Facebook, web and iOS armoury
Casual Connect 2012: Kabam's Haden Blackman on 10 things to avoid when making games as a service
#casualconnect What not to do
Matt Ricchetti on how Kabam is deploying its online RPG/strategy expertise for mobile
Port the kingdom then go 'mobile first'