{"id":14036,"date":"2018-03-02T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315128"},"modified":"2018-03-02T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T13:53:00","slug":"ubisoft-acquires-brawlhalla-dev-blue-mammoth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/02\/ubisoft-acquires-brawlhalla-dev-blue-mammoth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft acquires Brawlhalla dev Blue Mammoth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft has acquired <em>Brawlhalla<\/em> developer Blue Mammoth Games for an undisclosed fee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vibrant free-to-play online brawler is currently the most played fighting game on Steam, and has also been making waves\u00a0on the esports circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft believes <em>Brawlhalla<\/em> &#8212;\u00a0which is also available on PS4 <em>&#8212;\u00a0<\/em>can become an important part of its portfolio, and is impressed with how Blue Mammoth has scaled up the title since it launched in October last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team at Blue Mammoth Games is expert at developing and running scalable, competitive, multiplayer online games, and they&#8217;ll be a great addition to Ubisoft&#8217;s network of studios,&#8221; said Ubisoft NCSA\u00a0president,\u00a0Laurent Detoc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With <em>Brawlhalla<\/em>, we&#8217;re getting a hugely popular and highly-profitable title that aligns with our strategy of expanding our audience and providing players with long-lasting, entertaining gaming experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The deal was completed on March 1, and is expected to be immediately accretive to Ubisoft&#8217;s earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft has acquired Brawlhalla developer Blue Mammoth Games for an undisclosed fee.\u00a0 The vibrant free-to-play online brawler is currently the most played fighting game on Steam, and has also been making waves\u00a0on the esports circuit.\u00a0 Ubisoft believes Brawlhalla &#8212;\u00a0which is also available on PS4 &#8212;\u00a0can become an important part of its portfolio, and is impressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14036","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\/14036","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=14036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}