MySpace Co-Founder’s Company Is Planning a ‘Frozen 2’ Game
- Deal is said to bring fewer than 50 Disney workers to Jam City
- Partnership includes right to develop new Disney, Pixar games
Children tries a Walt Disney Co.'s Frozen movie video game during the D23 Expo 2015 in Anaheim, California, on Aug. 14, 2015.
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
Jam City, the mobile game studio started by MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, is taking over some Walt Disney Co. mobile game operations in a multiyear partnership that will involve licensing additional characters and stories.
The studio is gaining the Disney Emoji Blitz matching game through the development partnership, Jam City said in a statement Wednesday, without disclosing terms. Fewer than 50 employees working for Disney in Glendale, California, will be hired by Jam City under the deal, said a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the information is private.