{"id":114445,"date":"2020-06-19T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/365186"},"modified":"2020-06-19T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:07:00","slug":"tonic-games-group-is-the-new-parent-company-of-uk-dev-mediatonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/19\/tonic-games-group-is-the-new-parent-company-of-uk-dev-mediatonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonic Games Group is the new parent company of UK dev Mediatonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonic Games Group has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonicgames.com\/news\/announcing-tonic-games-group\">announced as the new parent company<\/a> of developers Mediatonic and Fortitude, and publishing label The Irregular Corporation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company&nbsp;takes its name from the <em>Fall Guys<\/em> and <em>Gears Pop!<\/em> developer Mediatonic, and according to co-founder Dave Bailey will &#8220;support and maximize the potential pop every game and every person in our family of companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As it stands,&nbsp;Tonic Games Group consists of 300 people based in five studios and two publishing offices around the world. It&#8217;s also partnered with third-party studios in 13 locations across its brand family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With 2 billion people out there in the world playing games, we&#8217;re excited to build a sustainable, long-term foundation for our companies to be creative, try what hasn&#8217;t been tried before, and reach new audiences,&#8221; said Bailey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes a few months after Mediatonic announced it would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357533\/Fall_Guys_developer_Mediatonic_to_open_new_UK_studio.php\">opening&nbsp;a new UK studio in Leamington Spa<\/a> to create over 60 new jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonic Games Group has been announced as the new parent company of developers Mediatonic and Fortitude, and publishing label The Irregular Corporation.&nbsp; The company&nbsp;takes its name from the Fall Guys and Gears Pop! developer Mediatonic, and according to co-founder Dave Bailey will &#8220;support and maximize the potential pop every game and every person in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}