{"id":98797,"date":"2019-08-20T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/349115"},"modified":"2019-08-20T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:52:00","slug":"phoenix-labs-acquires-bot-school-inc-to-further-dauntless-cross-play-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/20\/phoenix-labs-acquires-bot-school-inc-to-further-dauntless-cross-play-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Labs acquires Bot School Inc to further Dauntless cross-play efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Labs, the Vancouver-based studio behind Dauntless, has acquired game and platform developer Bot School Inc for an undisclosed fee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/phoenix-labs_game-and-platform-developer-bot-school-inc-activity-6569296320669061120-Uyt_\/\">broke the news on Linkedin<\/a>, where it explained it would be bringing onboard the Bot School team to strengthen the cross-play and cross-progression systems in <em>Dauntless<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The free-to-play action RPG launched last year, and is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It features cross-play support between all three platforms, which is part of Phoenix Labs&#8217; attempt to&nbsp;create a &#8216;One Dauntless&#8217; experience for all players.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bot School team has decades-long experience in building and scaling the platforms and social systems integral to some of the biggest games in the industry,&#8221; reads a Phoenix Labs statement.&nbsp;&#8220;This deep expertise will be critical in helping Dauntless continue to expand and service its millions-strong community of players.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Labs, the Vancouver-based studio behind Dauntless, has acquired game and platform developer Bot School Inc for an undisclosed fee.&nbsp; The Canadian studio broke the news on Linkedin, where it explained it would be bringing onboard the Bot School team to strengthen the cross-play and cross-progression systems in Dauntless. The free-to-play action RPG launched last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98797","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\/98797","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=98797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}