{"id":4994,"date":"2008-11-10T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T00:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4994"},"modified":"2013-04-29T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T22:55:58","slug":"blizzard-acquires-budcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/blizzard-acquires-budcat\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision Blizzard Buys Budcat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7653\" alt=\"Budcat_Creations-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Budcat_Creations-S.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"193\" \/>NOV. 10, 2008 \u2022 Activision Blizzard acquired Iowa City-based Budcat Creations, which had worked on Guitar Hero III: Legends off Rock for Nintendo platforms. The acquisition adds additional Wii and DS development expertise to the publisher&#8217;s in-house studios.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><em>Impact: Activision Blizzard has been up front about missing out on potential DS sales it could have tallied given the publisher&#8217;s strong stable of properties. Acquiring Budcat is an effort to add the talent necessary to boost DS and Wii market share.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV. 10, 2008 \u2022 Activision Blizzard acquired Iowa City-based Budcat Creations, which had worked on Guitar Hero III: Legends off Rock for Nintendo platforms. The acquisition adds additional Wii and DS development expertise to the publisher&#8217;s in-house studios. Impact: Activision Blizzard has been up front about missing out on potential DS sales it could have [&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\/4994"}],"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=4994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7652,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions\/7652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}