{"id":50554,"date":"2018-09-26T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/327385"},"modified":"2018-09-26T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T22:16:00","slug":"french-publisher-bigben-scoops-up-eko-software-for-nearly-10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/26\/french-publisher-bigben-scoops-up-eko-software-for-nearly-10-million\/","title":{"rendered":"French publisher Bigben scoops up Eko Software for nearly $10 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief<\/strong>: French publisher Bigben has bought a full controlling stake in French game developer Eko Software for a total of \u20ac8.5 million ($9.98 million).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/pressreleases\/327356\/Acquisition_of_Eko_SoftwareAnother_renowned_French_studio_for_game_developing_joins_the_Bigben_Group.php\">In a press release<\/a>, Bigben (known for publishing the <em>World Rally Car Championship<\/em> series), states that the goal of the acquisition is to become one of the world leaders in &#8220;double-A&#8221; video game publishing. Eko Software has spent the last few years developing sports titles in the <em>Rugby <\/em>and <em>Handball <\/em>series, and is working on <em>Warhammer: Chaosbane<\/em> at this moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For those who may not have heard of Bigben before, the company also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/318115\/Bigben_Interactive_acquires_Styx_developer_Cyanide_for_24M.php\">acquired <em>Styx<\/em> developer Cyanide for $24 million back in May.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: French publisher Bigben has bought a full controlling stake in French game developer Eko Software for a total of \u20ac8.5 million ($9.98 million). In a press release, Bigben (known for publishing the World Rally Car Championship series), states that the goal of the acquisition is to become one of the world leaders in &#8220;double-A&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50554","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\/50554","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=50554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}