Kabam consolidates Los Angeles offices, assures support for top mobile games

Kabam’s Los Angeles office consolidation has triggered layoffs, but the company says Marvel Contest of Champions and Shop Titans will keep receiving full support, easing the most immediate fear for players even as the studio itself adjusts its footprint. The exact number of jobs cut has not been disclosed, leaving the scale of the shake-up unclear.

Kabam said the move followed a review of strategic priorities and was not made lightly. The company also said it remained focused on its slate and committed to its partners, a careful reassurance for a publisher whose mobile business depends on steady live-service cadence, dependable events, and confidence that the next update is already in motion.

For Marvel Contest of Champions, that matters because the game is one of Kabam’s defining long-running releases. Kabam launched it in 2014, celebrated its 10-year anniversary in December 2024, and still promoted Summoners Fest 2025 at its Vancouver, British Columbia headquarters, with developer Q&As and Battlerealm Brawl events tied to the game. That kind of active fan programming points to a live-service operation that is still moving, even while the company consolidates in Los Angeles.

Kabam’s history also shows how much the studio has been built around a relatively small set of major titles. The company started in 2006 as Watercooler Inc., rebranded to Kabam in 2010, and was acquired by Netmarble in 2016. Shop Titans launched on mobile in 2019 and later on Steam in 2020, while Disney Mirrorverse arrived in 2022.

The restructuring is not happening in a vacuum. Kabam’s latest move follows layoffs in November 2022 that affected around 35 employees, and it lands in a mobile market where other publishers, including Ubisoft, have also trimmed teams around projects such as Rainbow Six Mobile. For Marvel Contest of Champions players, the near-term message is straightforward: Kabam says support continues. The bigger question now is whether the company’s consolidation changes anything behind the scenes, from event timing to content pacing, or whether the battlerealm keeps humming along as business as usual.