{"id":31479,"date":"2018-07-09T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/321641"},"modified":"2018-07-09T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:56:00","slug":"thq-nordic-acquires-german-developer-and-publisher-handygames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/thq-nordic-acquires-german-developer-and-publisher-handygames\/","title":{"rendered":"THQ Nordic acquires German developer and publisher HandyGames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong> THQ Nordic has acquired the German publisher HandyGames for an undisclosed sum, noting that it plans to use the company as an international publisher for small and mid-sized developers and projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition grabs THQ Nordic ownership of HandyGames existing intellectual property, including games like <em>Townsmen<\/em> and <em>Clouds &amp; Sheep<\/em>. Additionally, as noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thqnordic.com\/node\/270\">press release<\/a>, HandyGames will retain its location and all of its employees, including management, as a THQ Nordic-owned company.<\/p>\n<p>This move comes less than a month after THQ Nordic <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/320017\/THQ_Nordic_raises_168_million_for_future_acquisitions.php\">raised a total of $168 million<\/a> to fund future acquisitions, but even before raising that money the company has been on a years-long acquisition spree that has seen\u00a0it gain ownership of several studios and IP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: THQ Nordic has acquired the German publisher HandyGames for an undisclosed sum, noting that it plans to use the company as an international publisher for small and mid-sized developers and projects.\u00a0 The acquisition grabs THQ Nordic ownership of HandyGames existing intellectual property, including games like Townsmen and Clouds &amp; Sheep. Additionally, as noted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31479","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\/31479","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=31479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}