Economy & Economic Development  October 25, 2019

Mobile game maker Backflip Studios to close, layoff dozens

Backflip Studios, a Boulder-based mobile device game firm owned by toy maker Hasbro, is shuttering. Lucas High/BizWest.
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BOULDER — Boulder-based mobile device game developer Backflip Studios Inc. is closing up shop and will lay off 86 employees, the entirety of the firm’s staff. 

The firm, which was founded in 2009 by Julian Farrior, Dale Thoms and Tom Blind, was acquired by toy company Hasbro Inc. (Nasdaq:HAS) in 2013 for $112 million. The studios’ various games, which include Ninjump, DragonVale and Transformers: Earth War, have been downloaded several hundred million times, and many of the apps have achieved the top rankings for their categories in…

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