{"id":123212,"date":"2018-01-31T23:10:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123212"},"modified":"2018-10-10T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:35:54","slug":"epic-games-acquires-finnish-anti-cheat-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123212-epic-games-acquires-finnish-anti-cheat-company","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games acquires Finnish anti-cheat company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite developer Epic Games\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kamu.gg\/acquisition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it has acquired Finnish anti-cheat company Kamu.<\/p>\n<p>Kamu created the Easy Anti-Cheat software which has already been deployed in Fortnite in addition to over 80 PC games. It is installed by over 100 million PC players globally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKamu\u2019s team and tools have been key to building a vibrant Fortnite multiplayer experience that\u2019s fair for all players,\u201d said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding and launching games today is incredibly challenging, and only half the battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKamu\u2019s tools for managing live games help developers grow and sustain their games successfully after launch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kamu will continue to provide services to other titles for now, and Epic Games said it aims improved its presence its Helsinki following the deal.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/123188-vinny-lingham-backed-blockchain-ar-game-launched-in-south-africa.html\">Vinny Lingham-backed blockchain AR game launched in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite developer Epic Games\u00a0announced\u00a0it has acquired Finnish anti-cheat company Kamu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":121523,"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":[25665,1415,1563,25666],"class_list":["post-123212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-easy-anti-cheat","tag-epic-games","tag-fortnite","tag-kamu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123212","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\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}