{"id":11782,"date":"2011-05-17T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"popcap-and-american-mcgee-s-spicy-horse-join-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11782-popcap-and-american-mcgee-s-spicy-horse-join-forces","title":{"rendered":"PopCap and American McGee\u2019s Spicy Horse join forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>In what might be the most unlikely business partnership ever, PopCap Games has 2-Upped with American McGee&rsquo;s Spicy Horse studio, with a $3 million investment from Singapore&rsquo;s Vickers Venture Partners.<\/p>\n<p>American&rsquo;s team is apparently signed onto a 3D online version of one of PopCap&rsquo;s previous catalogue franchises, although exactly which one that is remains a mystery. Not that there are that many possible candidates, although American McGee&rsquo;s Bookworm Adventures in Hell sounds kind of awesome, doesn&rsquo;t it?<\/p>\n<p>McGee had previously said that once development on Alice: Madness Returns finished up, he intends to move into the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/11456-Alice-Madness-Returns-might-American-McGees-last-retail-box-product.html\" target=\"_self\">free-to-play zone.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sense is that while a lot of social games have built their empires on 2D, there will be a moment where the genre has to shift into 3D, and we want to start that process now,&#8221; he tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/34638\/American_McGees_Spicy_Horse_Gets_3M_Funding_Signs_PopCap_Deal.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason I originally came to China is that I wanted to get into that new model &#8211; I wanted to get away from console game production and retail, disc-based sales.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is they&rsquo;re working on, it&rsquo;s &ldquo;free-to-play, it will launch initially in Asia, it&#8217;s multiplayer, and it&#8217;s microtransaction-driven&rdquo;.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming soon to a Facebook near you<\/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-11782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782","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=11782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}