{"id":6988,"date":"2010-02-23T09:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6988"},"modified":"2015-04-28T22:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T05:14:42","slug":"wb-acquires-rocksteady-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wb-acquires-rocksteady-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"WB Acquires Rocksteady Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9202\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9202\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/batman-arkham-asylum-S.jpg\" alt=\"The developer of Batman: Arkham Asylum was acquired by Warner Bros.\" width=\"318\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The developer of Batman: Arkham Asylum was acquired by Warner Bros.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FEB. 23, 2010 \u2022 Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has acquired a controlling 68.4% interest in Rocksteady Studios, the creative house responsible for Batman: Arkham Asylum. The 70-person London-based studio is expected to create more titles under Warner&#8217;s Batman license. A month later, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that it was taking advantage of provincial tax incentives to open a development studio in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: \u00a0Warner Bros. and Disney have been the two most directly active film and entertainment studios in the video game industry over the years, both of them surging in recently on publishing internally owned intellectual properties. In particular, Warner\u2019s recent acquisitions of successful game developers, such as TT Games in 2007, Snowblind Studios in 2009 and now the majority stake in Rocksteady, has positioned the media giant be an increasingly important publishing force within the industry.\u00a0 A potential advantage Warner Bros. has is its stable of properties with more appeal to the traditional games consumers compared to Disney, including Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Batman.\u00a0 Its next major opportunity will leverage TT\u2019s Lego games success in Lego Harry Potter due out in May.\u00a0 We will be paying close attention to how this launch performs as an indication of Warner Bros ability to capitalize on their internal IP publishing strategy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEB. 23, 2010 \u2022 Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has acquired a controlling 68.4% interest in Rocksteady Studios, the creative house responsible for Batman: Arkham Asylum. The 70-person London-based studio is expected to create more titles under Warner&#8217;s Batman license. A month later, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that it was taking advantage of provincial [&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\/6988"}],"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=6988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14081,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions\/14081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}