{"id":911,"date":"2008-04-07T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/07\/mad-doc-swallowed\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T13:04:31","slug":"mad-doc-swallowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/07\/mad-doc-swallowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Doc Swallowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=18138\">Rockstar Games has just acquired<\/a> Massachussetts developer Mad Doc Software for an undisclosed amount of money. Given how poorly most of the gaming world responded to Mad Doc&#8217;s most recent efforts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/938463.asp\">Empire Earth III<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/931494.asp\">Star Trek: Legacy<\/a>, the nasty side of me snidely wonders if this is a poison pill to deter EA&#8217;s buyout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar Games has just acquired Massachussetts developer Mad Doc Software for an undisclosed amount of money. Given how poorly most of the gaming world responded to Mad Doc&#8217;s most recent efforts, Empire Earth III and Star Trek: Legacy, the nasty side of me snidely wonders if this is a poison pill to deter EA&#8217;s buyout.<\/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":[78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-eH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}