{"id":11456,"date":"2011-04-21T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"alice-madness-returns-might-be-american-mcgee-s-last-retail-box-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11456-alice-madness-returns-might-be-american-mcgee-s-last-retail-box-product","title":{"rendered":"Alice: Madness Returns might be American McGee\u2019s \u201clast retail box product\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When American McGee and Spicy Horse sign off Alice: Madness Returns in June, they&rsquo;ll be taking their business over to the free-to-play PC market for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the handheld market in general, and especially the Android environment, is a real boon to the industry and to developers and consumers and I think it&#8217;s going to open up a lot more possibility for very creative, exploratory ideas around gaming and around social platforms and the mobile platforms all linked together,&#8221; McGee tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/298991\/news\/alice-madness-returns-may-be-our-last-box-product-mcgee\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a> in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s really awesome. It&#8217;s actually where we&#8217;re pushing our studio to go next. PC online, you know, multiplayer games and also mobile as a function of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alice may be the last retail box product that we do for some time but for the next couple of years we&#8217;re going to focus very exclusively on free-to-play PC downloadable games and then also push those other mobile platforms.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe&#039;re going to focus very exclusively on free-to-play PC downloadable games\u201d instead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}