{"id":66638,"date":"2018-12-03T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/332043"},"modified":"2018-12-03T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:25:00","slug":"ubisoft-acquires-game-server-provider-i3d-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/03\/ubisoft-acquires-game-server-provider-i3d-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft acquires game server provider i3D.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft announced last week that it has acquired game server hosting provider i3D.net with the goal\u00a0of improving its online and multiplayer experiences for\u00a0its repertoire\u00a0of games.<\/p>\n<p>While the details of the acquisition are undisclosed, the Dutch hosting provider and server company specializes in game\u00a0servers specifically, and has hosted\u00a0servers for numerous companies including EA and\u00a0Ubisoft\u00a0(before the acquisition).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the deal, it&#8217;s likely that Ubisoft\u00a0will focus on providing higher quality servers for its current\u00a0and future titles that feature\u00a0an online or multiplayer component, especially with the rise of the games-as-service model.<\/p>\n<p>As for i3D.net, the acquisition brings forth the opportunity to\u00a0increase its global reach while continuing to keep its\u00a0independent management and server hosting for a wide variety of companies.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is expected to complete\u00a0by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft announced last week that it has acquired game server hosting provider i3D.net with the goal\u00a0of improving its online and multiplayer experiences for\u00a0its repertoire\u00a0of games. While the details of the acquisition are undisclosed, the Dutch hosting provider and server company specializes in game\u00a0servers specifically, and has hosted\u00a0servers for numerous companies including EA and\u00a0Ubisoft\u00a0(before the acquisition).\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66638","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\/66638","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=66638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}