{"id":459,"date":"2012-03-29T21:59:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T21:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459"},"modified":"2018-07-09T22:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T22:25:52","slug":"kabam-acquires-gravity-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/kabam-acquires-gravity-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabam Acquires Gravity Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_460\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-460\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GB-LogoWP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gravity Bear is now in Kabam&#8217;s orbit.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARCH 29, 2012 \u25cf Free-to-play publisher of hardcore social games Kabam announced it acquired \u2029Emeryville, Calif.-based 3D\u2029social \u2029game developer\u2029 Gravity\u2029Bear, creator\u2029of the role-playing\u2029 combat game,\u2029 Battle\u2029Punks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: There is growing focus on bringing hardcore gamers into Facebook games which traditional have appealed to a different audience.\u00a0 At E3, DFC Intelligence will be presenting results of some surveys of hard-core gamers and their reaction to Facebook and browser games in general.\u00a0 In addition, we are closely looking at how core gamers are reacting to the free-to-play business market in general.\u00a0 Unlike, in Asia and other parts of the world core gamers have been much slower accepting F2P games in the U.S.\u00a0 There is a question of whether that is lack of quality content or just an unwillingness to accept the model in general.\u00a0 Kabam and its investors are placing a big bet that it is the former.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 29, 2012 \u25cf Free-to-play publisher of hardcore social games Kabam announced it acquired \u2029Emeryville, Calif.-based 3D\u2029social \u2029game developer\u2029 Gravity\u2029Bear, creator\u2029of the role-playing\u2029 combat game,\u2029 Battle\u2029Punks. Impact: There is growing focus on bringing hardcore gamers into Facebook games which traditional have appealed to a different audience.\u00a0 At E3, DFC Intelligence will be presenting results of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123,78],"tags":[88,424,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13435,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/13435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}