{"id":61636,"date":"2014-01-27T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61636"},"modified":"2014-01-27T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:03:03","slug":"microsoft-grabs-rights-to-gears-of-war-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61636-microsoft-grabs-rights-to-gears-of-war-franchise","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft grabs rights to Gears of War franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Studios has acquired the rights to the &#8220;Gears of War&#8221; franchise from Epic Games, including rights to all existing and future games.<\/p>\n<p>Black Tusk Studios, based in Vancouver BC, will take over development of the Gears of War franchise. Rod Fergusson, former Director of Production at Epic Games, will join Microsoft in a studio leadership role at Black Tusk.<\/p>\n<p>As a key Xbox franchise, a new Gears of War game announcement is expected sometime in 2014. Epic Games will be licensing their Unreal Engine 4 technology to Microsoft for future development projects.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61625-the-amazing-spider-man-2-gameplay-trailer-revealed.html\">The Amazing Spider-Man 2 gameplay trailer revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61623-nvidia-manager-killed-trying-to-rescue-man-from-train-tracks.html\">Nvidia manager killed trying to rescue man from train tracks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61619-monster-hunter-4-announced-for-western-release.html\">Monster Hunter 4 announced for western release<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Gears of War game announcement is expected in 2014 as Epic Games sells the rights to the franchise to Microsoft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":61637,"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":[1415,431,21,91],"class_list":["post-61636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-epic-games","tag-gears-of-war","tag-headline","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61636","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}