{"id":18061,"date":"2018-04-20T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316805"},"modified":"2018-04-20T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:21:00","slug":"capcom-scrapping-puzzle-fighter-to-focus-on-dead-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/capcom-scrapping-puzzle-fighter-to-focus-on-dead-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom scrapping Puzzle Fighter to focus on Dead Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom\u00a0Vancouver\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capcom-unity.com\/jefferysimpson\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/puzzle-fighter-sunset-announcement\">sunsetting mobile title <em>Puzzle Fighter<\/em><\/a>\u00a0so it can\u00a0refocus on the\u00a0<em>Dead Rising<\/em> franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mobile version of the arcade classic only launched in November last year, but has already been deemed\u00a0surplus to requirements\u00a0and will be pulled\u00a0from app stores on July 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will remain playable until July 31, at which point the servers will be shut down for good. Capcom is giving all players 10,000 gems (the title&#8217;s in-game currency) in an attempt to soften the blow, and will also be releasing any upcoming characters and stages for free.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that in-app purchases will be disabled on April 23, so active players will want to spend their free gems sooner rather than later (though they can still be used to upgrade characters before the servers are shut down).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom\u00a0Vancouver\u00a0is sunsetting mobile title Puzzle Fighter\u00a0so it can\u00a0refocus on the\u00a0Dead Rising franchise.\u00a0 The mobile version of the arcade classic only launched in November last year, but has already been deemed\u00a0surplus to requirements\u00a0and will be pulled\u00a0from app stores on July 1.\u00a0 It will remain playable until July 31, at which point the servers will be shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18061","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\/18061","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=18061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}