{"id":49332,"date":"2018-09-21T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/327086"},"modified":"2018-09-21T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T21:01:00","slug":"stillfront-acquires-imperia-online-developer-for-11m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/21\/stillfront-acquires-imperia-online-developer-for-11m\/","title":{"rendered":"Stillfront acquires Imperia Online developer for $11M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish firm Stillfront Group announced today that it has acquired developer Imperia Online, known for the medieval-themed MMO strategy game of the same name, for \u20ac10 million (~$11.7 million).<\/p>\n<p>Since being founded in 2009, Imperia Online has published 25 games for both browser-based and mobile platforms, reportedly retaining over 45 million players worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImperia Online fits perfectly into Stillfront&#8217;s growth strategy by broadening our portfolio of studios and games with characteristics that drive long-term gamer relations,\u201d says\u00a0Stillfront CEO J\u00f6rgen Larsson.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/69084\/stillfront-acquires-imperia-online-in-deal-worth-up-to-32-million\/\">Pocket Gamer<\/a>,Stillfront acquired 100 percent of shares in the company, with \u20ac5 million euros (~$5.8 million) payable in cash while \u20ac5 million (~$5.8million) will be paid through 269,412 newly issued shares.<\/p>\n<p>The deal could potentially increase to \u20ac27.5 million (~$32.3 million) caused by earnouts based on Imperia Online&#8217;s performance over the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish firm Stillfront Group announced today that it has acquired developer Imperia Online, known for the medieval-themed MMO strategy game of the same name, for \u20ac10 million (~$11.7 million). Since being founded in 2009, Imperia Online has published 25 games for both browser-based and mobile platforms, reportedly retaining over 45 million players worldwide. \u201cImperia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49332","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\/49332","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=49332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}