{"id":5626,"date":"2009-04-24T21:50:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T04:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5626"},"modified":"2013-05-06T20:35:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T03:35:25","slug":"empire-interactive-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/empire-interactive-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire Interactive Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8522\" alt=\"Empire Logo-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Empire-Logo-S.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\" \/>APRIL 24, 2009 \u2022 U.K.-based Empire Interactive closed its doors after not being able to find a buyer to take over the publisher&#8217;s operations. Russian publisher and distributor Noviy Disk was reported to be interested in acquiring Empire, but terms were never finalized.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: More than 20 years of plucky publishing efforts couldn&#8217;t save Empire from growing development expenses and stock market losses. Without the kind of global hits that would have made the company a bargain take-over like Eidos, Empire had no choice but to shutter.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 24, 2009 \u2022 U.K.-based Empire Interactive closed its doors after not being able to find a buyer to take over the publisher&#8217;s operations. Russian publisher and distributor Noviy Disk was reported to be interested in acquiring Empire, but terms were never finalized. Impact: More than 20 years of plucky publishing efforts couldn&#8217;t save Empire [&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\/5626"}],"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=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8521,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/8521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}