{"id":94497,"date":"2019-06-03T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/343905"},"modified":"2019-06-03T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T22:11:00","slug":"stillfront-acquires-war-commander-dev-kixeye-for-90-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/stillfront-acquires-war-commander-dev-kixeye-for-90-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Stillfront acquires War Commander dev Kixeye for $90 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stillfront Group has penned a deal to fully acquire the strategy game developer Kixeye for $90 million, or up to $120 million depending on the results of the current financial year.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition sees Stillfront picking up Kixeye\u2019s entire portfolio, including its four current live games, in addition to the studio itself, a move that CEO J\u00f6rgen Larsson says bolsters Stillfront\u2019s&nbsp;strategy of working with teams and games that drive \u201clong term gamer relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKixeye fits perfectly into Stillfront\u2019s growth strategy by broadening our portfolio of studios and games with characteristics that drive long term gamer relations,\u201d said Larsson in a press release. \u201cKixeye[&#8216;s] games portfolio of four strong IPs and a well-known brand is a very good contribution to our existing game portfolio and increases the potential for synergies within the Group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company&nbsp;financed the acquisition through a bridge loan that it plans to pay back over the next 12 months, and the deal is expected to close on July 1, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stillfront Group has penned a deal to fully acquire the strategy game developer Kixeye for $90 million, or up to $120 million depending on the results of the current financial year. The acquisition sees Stillfront picking up Kixeye\u2019s entire portfolio, including its four current live games, in addition to the studio itself, a move that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94497","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\/94497","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=94497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}