The company has offices in San Francisco, California and Austin, Texas. The company creates, develops and publishes massively multiplayer social games (MMSG), such as Marvel Contest of Champions and Transformers: Forged to Fight for mobile devices. Kabam sells freemium games for mobile devices and social networking services, and before expanding into gaming, Kabam established itself as a developer of social applications with an entertainment and sports community of over 60 million users. The company's previous investors include Alibaba, Kabam, Google, MGM, Intel, Pinnacle Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Warner Brothers and others.

The company has focused on developing "real games," or games with immersive gameplay mechanics similar to more traditional MMOs, with a focus on virtual currency spending and gambling. in late 2009, Kabam launched Kingdom of Camelot, one of the first successful strategy games on Facebook. However, in June 2010, the player base began to shrink.