{"id":1511,"date":"2009-05-27T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2009-05-27T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T20:20:53","slug":"these-are-two-of-my-favorite-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/27\/these-are-two-of-my-favorite-things\/","title":{"rendered":"These are Two of My Favorite Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a Hall of Fame level pitcher and a Hall of Fame level designer and <a href=\"http:\/\/bighugegames.com\/press.shtml\">maybe magic can happen.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>38 Studios (<a href=\"http:\/\/38studios.com\">www.38studios.com<\/a>), an entertainment and original IP creation company, today announced the acquisition of Big Huge Games (BHG) from publisher THQ Inc. The acquisition is a critical step in 38 Studios&#8217; strategy to deliver a broad range of entertainment products centered on its original fantasy IP, codenamed Copernicus. The purchase of Big Huge Games includes all of the company&#8217;s proprietary IP, tools, technology, assets, and works-in-progress. Specific financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good news? Curt Schilling saves Brian Reynolds like he did the Red Sox a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Bad news? It&#8217;s centered on &#8220;fantasy IP&#8221; so no <em>Rise of Nations II<\/em>, even under a new name, seems likely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/news\/index.php\/2009-05-27\/38-studios-talks-big-huge-acquisition\/\"> Crispy Gamer has an interview with 38 Studios&#8217; Brett Close<\/a>. The purchase includes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All rights (including associated code, development tools, and trademarks) to Rise of Nations, Rise of Legends, the unnamed RPG and other products in process, and all BHG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rights and interests in Catan and Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties. All BHG IP, including registered IP, corporate name, and other non-specified development tools and code. Various software licenses, including Havok , PS3 dev kits, and Xbox 360 dev kits.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a Hall of Fame level pitcher and a Hall of Fame level designer and maybe magic can happen. 38 Studios (www.38studios.com), an entertainment and original IP creation company, today announced the acquisition of Big Huge Games (BHG) from publisher THQ Inc. The acquisition is a critical step in 38 Studios&#8217; strategy to deliver a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-on","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}