{"id":14668,"date":"2011-10-12T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-acquires-splosion-man-gunstringer-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14668-microsoft-acquires-splosion-man-gunstringer-dev","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft acquires Splosion Man, Gunstringer dev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has snaffled up Twisted Pixel, the devs behind XBLA megahits The Maw and Splosion Man, and Kinect stinkbomb The Gunstringer, for an undisclosed sum of cash.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas-based company has been inducted into the first party ranks to &ldquo;help drive further innovation around Kinect and Xbox Live&#8221;, according to Microsoft Game Studios VP, Phil Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Twisted Pixel has an incredible track record of delivering innovative, critically acclaimed, and most importantly, fun, games,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is really exciting for us to solidify our long-standing relationship with Microsoft Studios, who we consider to be the leader in digital distribution and creating new innovations in gaming like Xbox Live and Kinect,&rdquo; says Twisted Pixel CEO Michael Wilford, dutifully reciprocating the ritual mutual admiration stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As part of the family of Microsoft Studios we look forward to bringing even bigger and richer experiences to Xbox and Twisted Pixel fans around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The newly in love 2-UP hasn&rsquo;t yet announced its next move, but the corporate cuddling phase usually lasts a few weeks at least.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"340\" height=\"203\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qq52w4AijkU?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"340\" height=\"203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qq52w4AijkU?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18852-Microsoft-acquires-Splosion-Man-Gunstringer-dev-Twisted-Pixel?\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Microsoft acquires Splosion Man, Gunstringer dev\"><strong>Microsoft acquires Splosion Man, Gunstringer dev<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twisted Pixel drafted to \u201chelp drive further innovation around Kinect and Xbox Live\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"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-14668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}