{"id":91546,"date":"2019-04-05T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/340276"},"modified":"2019-04-05T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:34:00","slug":"jam-city-acquires-berlin-based-studio-231-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/05\/jam-city-acquires-berlin-based-studio-231-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Jam City acquires Berlin-based studio 231 Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong> Jam City has acquired the Berlin-based studio&nbsp;231 Play, now rebranded as Jam City Germany.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a press release, studio&nbsp;founders Matthias and Thomas Hoechsmann&nbsp;will remain on staff to oversee development and operations.<\/p>\n<p>231 Play is best known for titles like <em>Game Doctors<\/em>, which&nbsp;was acquired by Zynga&nbsp;in 2011, and <em>Zombie Smash.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While terms of the acquisition weren&#8217;t&nbsp;publicly disclosed, this purchase marks the first of&nbsp;Jam City&#8217;s European operations. The company has global&nbsp;studios based&nbsp;in the US, Argentina, Colombia, and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Jam City has acquired the Berlin-based studio&nbsp;231 Play, now rebranded as Jam City Germany. As detailed in a press release, studio&nbsp;founders Matthias and Thomas Hoechsmann&nbsp;will remain on staff to oversee development and operations. 231 Play is best known for titles like Game Doctors, which&nbsp;was acquired by Zynga&nbsp;in 2011, and Zombie Smash. While terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91546","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\/91546","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=91546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}