{"id":53515,"date":"2018-10-08T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/328129"},"modified":"2018-10-08T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:10:00","slug":"epic-games-acquires-game-security-and-player-service-outfit-kamu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/08\/epic-games-acquires-game-security-and-player-service-outfit-kamu\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games acquires game security and player service outfit Kamu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games has acquired video game security and player services company Kamu for an undisclosed fee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based in Helsinki,\u00a0Kamu offers a suite of services focusing on game security, game telemetry, and game management, while its Easy Anti-Cheat system\u00a0is used by over 100 million PC players around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Epic, meanwhile, is the company behind the Unreal Engine, as well as games including\u00a0<em>Gears of War<\/em>, <em>Shadow Complex<\/em>, and popular battle royale shooter <em>Fortnite<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A variety of Kamu&#8217;s tools have actually been used to balance out and manage <em>Fortnite&#8217;s<\/em> multiplayer experience, making it fair for players across the board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, the Kamu team will continue to expand its service line-up, while Epic hopes its new presence in Helsinki will help it recruit\u00a0technology, engine, and online service developers in Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games has acquired video game security and player services company Kamu for an undisclosed fee.\u00a0 Based in Helsinki,\u00a0Kamu offers a suite of services focusing on game security, game telemetry, and game management, while its Easy Anti-Cheat system\u00a0is used by over 100 million PC players around the world. Epic, meanwhile, is the company behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53515","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\/53515","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=53515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}