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Wargaming shuts down its WG Cells mobile studio

Wargaming has shut its WG Cells mobile gaming studio in Bellevue, Washington, cutting about 64 jobs, according to a report in Geekwire.
Cyprus-based Wargaming told Geekwire that it was shutting the WG Cells studio, formerly called DropForge Games, just a year after getting it started. It’s a sign of how hard it is to survive in the $36 billion mobile game market, where there’s a ton of competition and acquiring users has become very expensive.
David Bluhm, CEO of WG Cells and cofound
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