Founded in 2009, Phoenix Age created the popular Castle Age (available on Facebook and iOS)and Underworld Empire (iOS), both of which are on the top grossing charts on their respective platforms. Phoenix Age currently has a third, unannounced title in development. The company is located in downtown San Francisco and has 44 employees, who will continue to operate in their current offices. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“We jumped at the opportunity to bring Phoenix Age into the Kabam family,” said Kabam Chief Operating Officer Kent Wakeford. “Phoenix Age’s hit games and world-class talent further solidify Kabam’s leadership role in the free-to-play games space while expanding Kabam into new genres.”

“We couldn’t be more excited about joining Kabam,” said Edwin Shew, co-founder of Phoenix Age. “Becoming part of their team instantly gives us the expertise, experience and infrastructure to scale our games to a global level we couldn’t achieve independently.”

Phoenix Age is the first acquisition for Kabam in 2014, and continues the company’s growth strategy of acquiring innovative, industry-leading game studios. Since 2010, Kabam has acquired Exploding Barrel Games, WonderHill, Fearless Studios, Gravity Bear, Wild Shadow Studios and Balanced Worlds, producing such hits as Dragons of Atlantis and Fast & Furious 6: The Game. At the same time Kabam is deepening its ties to Hollywood to create blockbuster games such as The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth. Kabam continues to produce original hit games like Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, and the company is aggressively expanding into publishing, striking deals top tier Asia game developers such as Joy You, Game Reign, WeMade, and Gfan.