{"id":85516,"date":"2019-02-28T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/337756"},"modified":"2019-02-28T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:49:00","slug":"playdius-rebrands-as-dear-villagers-plans-to-focus-on-pc-and-console-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/28\/playdius-rebrands-as-dear-villagers-plans-to-focus-on-pc-and-console-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Playdius rebrands as Dear Villagers, plans to focus on PC and console titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation to reveal a new line-up of games, the French indie publisher Playdius announced earlier\u00a0today that it has re-branded as Dear Villagers.<\/p>\n<p>The publisher is well-known for its catalog of games including the BAFTA-nominated\u00a0<em>Bury me, my Love<\/em>, in addition to\u00a0<em>A\u00a0Normal Lost Phone<\/em>\u00a0and the JRPG\u00a0<em>Edge of Eternity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear Villagers is the publishing branch of Plug In Digital, which recently raised $2.25 million in investment from Inter Invest Capital.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A press release explains that the investment will primarily be used to\u00a0bolster a new publishing strategy under the Dear Villagers brand.<\/p>\n<p>This will allow\u00a0the publisher to expand its scope and build a repertoire of new games for\u00a0PC and console, described as being &#8220;mid to hardcore games.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Playdius we built a very eclectic lineup from mainstream narrative games on mobile to hardcore RPGs on PC and console,&#8221; said head of publishing Guillaume Jamet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As our company grows, we decided to roll out a new ambitious publishing strategy based on a strong new brand, that clearly identifies as a provider of mid to hardcore games on PC and console.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation to reveal a new line-up of games, the French indie publisher Playdius announced earlier\u00a0today that it has re-branded as Dear Villagers. The publisher is well-known for its catalog of games including the BAFTA-nominated\u00a0Bury me, my Love, in addition to\u00a0A\u00a0Normal Lost Phone\u00a0and the JRPG\u00a0Edge of Eternity. Dear Villagers is the publishing branch of Plug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85516","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\/85516","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=85516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}