{"id":50654,"date":"2013-02-16T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T07:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=50654"},"modified":"2013-02-16T10:05:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T08:05:25","slug":"gas-powered-games-bought-up-by-wargaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/50654-gas-powered-games-bought-up-by-wargaming","title":{"rendered":"Gas Powered Games bought up by Wargaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wargaming has acquired Gas Powered Games. This follows Gas Powered closing their widely-covered Kickstarter campaign for Wildman.<\/p>\n

Wargaming will take full ownership of the studio, as well as bring on the talent of CEO and company founder Chris Taylor.<\/p>\n

\u201cGas Powered Games\u2019 heritage and development pedigree shows us just how valuable an addition Chris and his company will make to the Wargaming family,\u201d said Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi.<\/p>\n

\u201cGas Powered Games has a long track record of providing incredibly engaging AAA gaming experiences and we can\u2019t wait to start working with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wargaming is best known for its World of Tanks series, as well as the World of Warplanes and World of Warships franchises.<\/p>\n

In January 2013, it was reported that a\u00a0large portion of Gas Powered Games\u2019 staff was let go<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: Wargaming\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n

More on Gas Powered Games:<\/h3>\n

Wildman Kickstarter cancelled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gas Powered Wildman Kickstarter becomes bid to save company<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gas Powered Games announces Wildman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World of Tanks developer snatches up beleaguered Gas Powered Games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50655,"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":[8460,8459,21,8877,8457,7430],"class_list":["post-50654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-chris-taylor","tag-gas-powered-games","tag-headline","tag-wargaming","tag-wildman","tag-world-of-tanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50654","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50671,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50654\/revisions\/50671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}