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| Type of business | Private |
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Industry | Video game |
| Revenue |  360 million |
| Employees | 700 (March 7, 2017) |
| Parent | Netmarble |
| URL | Official website  |
Kabam (formerly Watercooler, Inc.) is a Canadian video game developer and publisher founded in 2006 and headquartered in Vancouver, with offices in Montreal, San Francisco, and Austin, Texas. The company develops and publishes massively multiplayer social games such as Marvel Contest of Champions and Transformers: Forged to Fight for mobile devices. Before expanding into gaming, Kabam established itself as a social applications developer with focusing on entertainment and sports.
The company has focused on developing "real games," or games with immersive gameplay mechanics akin to more traditional MMOs with an emphasis on the spending and gambling of virtual currency. In late 2009, Kabam launched Kingdoms of Camelot, one of the first successful strategy games on Facebook, but in June 2010, the number of players began constantly shrinking.[1] In April 2015, Kabam announced a shift in its focus to developing AAA mobile games.[2]
- ^ "Playdom Reaches Out to Strategy Gamers with Verdonia". Inside Social Games. June 16, 2010.
- ^ Kevin Chou (2015-04-20). "Fewer, Bigger, Bolder: Kabam is Singularly Focused on AAA Mobile Games". Kabam. Archived from the original on 2015-06-28. Retrieved 2015-06-14.