{"id":3916,"date":"2009-05-22T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"warner-bros-makes-bid-for-midway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/3916-warner-bros-makes-bid-for-midway","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Makes bid for Midway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Has made an asset purchase bid of $33 million for the bankrupt Midway Games reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fudzilla.co.za\">Fudzilla. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although this does not include the purchase of all of Midway&rsquo;s assets, it will feature Mortal Kombat, which is arguably the company&rsquo;s most valuable asset. Its Chicago and Seattle studios will also be included.<\/p>\n<p>The bid will not however include Midway&rsquo;s San Diego or Newcastle studios, the TNA wrestling franchise or the recently released Wheelman.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this it is generally assumed by that Warner Bros will get the Wheelman franchise if the deal goes through. If it is not completed Midway stands to receive a $1 million break-up fee.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as Warner recently announced its intentions to expand their developmental efforts.&nbsp; Midway was founded in 1988 and is responsible for games like Ms. Pac-Man and Unreal Tournament 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner offer USD 33million for Midway Games<\/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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","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=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}