{"id":2846,"date":"2017-10-19T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/307928"},"modified":"2017-10-19T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:19:00","slug":"keywords-acquires-software-development-specialist-d3t-for-4m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/keywords-acquires-software-development-specialist-d3t-for-4m\/","title":{"rendered":"Keywords acquires software development specialist d3t for $4M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game\u00a0service provider Keywords has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keywordsstudios.com\/keywords-studios-extends-engineering-service-line-with-d3t-acquisition\/\">acquired software development company\u00a0d3t ltd<\/a> for \u00a33 million ($3.96 million). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2017-10-19-keywords-buys-d3t-for-3-million\">According to GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, the Irish outfit will hand over\u00a0\u00a32.4 million ($3.16 million) upfront and issue\u00a042,368 new ordinary shares to pay off the remainder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the latest in a long line of acquisitions and investments for Keywords, which is attempting to become a global one-stop-shop for all manner of game services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based in the UK, d3t specializes in HD re-mastering, porting, optimization, rendering, and game systems development. Since its inception in 2011, the company has worked on projects for clients including Sony XDev, SEGA, Codemasters, and the BBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keywords most recent purchase saw the company nab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/303101\/Keywords_snaps_up_four_French_audio_recording_and_localization_firms.php\">four french audio recording and localization firms<\/a>. Prior to that, it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/298517\/Keyword_expands_art_service_lineup_with_6M_Strongbox_purchase.php\">expanded its art service line-up<\/a> with the $6 million purchase of Strongbox, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/298241\/Keywords_acquires_game_engineering_specialist_GameSim.php\">picked up GameSim<\/a> to move into the world of software engineering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The acquisition of d3t complements our recent acquisition GameSim&#8217;s capabilities to extend the services, scale and geographical presence of our Engineering offering,&#8221; said Keywords CEO, Giacomo Duranti.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With increasing demand in the video games industry for reliable, high-quality outsourced software engineering services, we are building a strong offering to support our clients globally.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game\u00a0service provider Keywords has acquired software development company\u00a0d3t ltd for \u00a33 million ($3.96 million). \u00a0 According to GamesIndustry.biz, the Irish outfit will hand over\u00a0\u00a32.4 million ($3.16 million) upfront and issue\u00a042,368 new ordinary shares to pay off the remainder.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the latest in a long line of acquisitions and investments for Keywords, which is attempting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","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\/2846","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=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}