{"id":48546,"date":"2012-12-15T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=48546"},"modified":"2012-12-17T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T08:40:44","slug":"valve-acquires-two-man-studio-set-up-by-plants-vs-zombies-devs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/48546-valve-acquires-two-man-studio-set-up-by-plants-vs-zombies-devs","title":{"rendered":"Valve acquires two man studio set up by Plants vs. Zombies devs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve has purchased a new studio, a two man operation set up by former developers of Plants vs. Zombies.<\/p>\n

The tiny developer is called Star Filled Studios, founded by ex-PopCap and Blizzard employees. Valve intends to use the studio to open a new Valve office in the San Francisco Bay area.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur games are made to be playable by everyone and available on iPhone, Steam and many different platforms,\u201d says the studio\u2019s about page.<\/p>\n

Co-founder Jeff Gates made the cell stage of Spore for Maxis, worked on Diablo 3 and worked with Popcap on Plants vs. Zombies.<\/p>\n

Gates\u2019 partner Tod Semple spent four years developing the Diablo 3 engine, before moving on to LucasArts to develop the engine for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. He too worked with the team that made Plants vs. Zombies.<\/p>\n

Valve has acquired developers in the past, taking over the Left 4 Dead franchise in 2008 by purchasing developer Turtle Rock Studios.<\/p>\n

Source: Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Wants to open a San Francisco office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":44882,"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":[2,2226,3],"tags":[31,667,8164,3064,2178,8163,8162,8165,3063,697],"class_list":["post-48546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","category-pc","tag-active","tag-diablo-3","tag-jeff-gates","tag-left-4-dead","tag-maxis","tag-plants-vs-zombies","tag-star-filled-studios","tag-tod-semple","tag-turtle-rock-studios","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48546","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48558,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48546\/revisions\/48558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}