{"id":4851,"date":"2009-03-18T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T03:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4851"},"modified":"2013-05-02T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T03:28:40","slug":"bandai-increases-d3-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/bandai-increases-d3-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandai Increases D3 Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8410\" alt=\"D3-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/D3-S.jpg\" width=\"323\" height=\"325\" \/>MARCH 18, 2009 \u2022 Namco Bandai continued to increase its ownership stake in D3Publisher \u2013 up to 95% from 70%. Namco Bandai announced in February the intention to acquire 100% of D3Publisher, plus its European and North American operations, to be run as a wholly owned subsidiary. In addition to its video game publishing business, D3Publisher was also an attractive proposition for its toy and merchandising business.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: D3 is a publisher focused on what they call &#8220;Simple&#8221; games.\u00a0 In other words, they focus on the type of products that could do well on Nintendo platforms.\u00a0 Companies that can focus on basic low cost games now seem in high demand.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 18, 2009 \u2022 Namco Bandai continued to increase its ownership stake in D3Publisher \u2013 up to 95% from 70%. Namco Bandai announced in February the intention to acquire 100% of D3Publisher, plus its European and North American operations, to be run as a wholly owned subsidiary. In addition to its video game publishing business, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8413,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/8413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}