{"id":113769,"date":"2016-12-29T13:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T11:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113769"},"modified":"2016-12-29T13:32:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T11:32:53","slug":"the-10-best-developers-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/113769-the-10-best-developers-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"The 10 best developers of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry website <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/287153\/Gamasutras_Best_of_2016_The_top_10_game_developers_of_the_year.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra <\/a><\/strong>has officially unveiled its 10 best developers of the year.<\/p>\n<p>These are not necessarily\u00a0the developers that put out the best games of the year, but rather\u00a0developers and studios that left their mark on this year in a meaningful way, &#8220;shaping the year in the art and business of making games&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the winners below (in alphabetical order).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Blizzard\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: Overwatch, World of Warcraft: Legion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iHEfXynbugg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Concerned Ape<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: Stardew Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ot7uXNQskhs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>D-Pad Studio<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: Owlboy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fkeH5gbcjMU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>GenDesign<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: The Last Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pKfxBKLnI9Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Hello Games<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vpkXfzkmBVY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>id Software<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: DOOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOjbvzR7KkI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>IO Interactive<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: Hitman 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X-lXfmWToIY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Niantic Labs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: Pokemon GO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qryf2F_QfXg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Owlchemy Labs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: Job Simulator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-iMlQIGH8Y\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Witching Hour Studios<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Games: Masquerada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5lzAhmzeCt8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Who was your developer of the year? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were the best developers and studios of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":113771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15623,17576,665,7106,1966,11825],"class_list":["post-113769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-15623","tag-best","tag-blizzard","tag-developers","tag-games","tag-hello-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114149,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113769\/revisions\/114149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}