{"id":6284,"date":"2009-06-27T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T00:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6284"},"modified":"2013-05-28T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T03:07:40","slug":"wbie-gets-midway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wbie-gets-midway\/","title":{"rendered":"WBIE Gets Midway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8744\" alt=\"WBIE logo-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/WBIE-logo-S.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"294\" \/>JUNE 27, 2009 \u2022 Warner Bros. $33 million offer turned out to be the sole bidder for Midway Games assets. With no other bidders, the auction originally scheduled to sell of the publisher&#8217;s products like Mortal Kombat was cancelled. A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved the acquisition on July 2.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Impact: Midway had been on life support for years.\u00a0 The company was only able to survive with the support of Viacom head Sumner Redstone who hoped the company would provide him an entry to the video game market.\u00a0 Clearly the key asset Warner Bros. is after is the Mortal Kombat IP.\u00a0 In 2008, Warner Bros had partnered with Midway to release Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe.\u00a0 Now, Warner Bros has complete ownership of the IP going forward.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 27, 2009 \u2022 Warner Bros. $33 million offer turned out to be the sole bidder for Midway Games assets. With no other bidders, the auction originally scheduled to sell of the publisher&#8217;s products like Mortal Kombat was cancelled. A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved the acquisition on July 2. Impact: Midway had been on life [&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\/6284"}],"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=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8743,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/8743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}