{"id":1162,"date":"2020-01-09T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2020-01-19T13:30:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T13:30:51","slug":"casual-mobile-developer-nexon-sells-gloops-to-gr-drive-for-%c2%a51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/casual-mobile-developer-nexon-sells-gloops-to-gr-drive-for-%c2%a51","title":{"rendered":"Casual mobile developer Nexon sells Gloops to GR Drive for \u00a51"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To support its subsidiary studio GR Drive,  Nexon has agreed December 24  to sell the subsidiary to GR Drive for \u00a51 ($0.01).  Back in 2012 Nexon acquired Warriors of Odin developer Gloops for \u00a536.5 billion (more than $468 million at the time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nexon noted announcing the sale that Gloops was &#8220;one of the leading mobile social game developers&#8221; when it initially bought it, and its purchase was aimed to boost Nexon&#8217;s mobile gaming business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, due to the rapidly changing mobile social game environment, keeping up with such changes in game development and operations has continued to be more difficult than initially expected, Nexon noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nexon said &#8220;the environment is ready for the generation of high synergy&#8221; between Gloops and GR Drive, which has worked as a support studio on visual elements of titles like Fate Grand\/Order, Kirby Star Allies, and Daemon X Machina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To support its subsidiary studio GR Drive, Nexon has agreed December 24 to sell the subsidiary to GR Drive for \u00a51 ($0.01). Back in 2012 Nexon acquired Warriors of Odin developer Gloops for \u00a536.5 billion (more than $468 million at the time). Nexon noted announcing the sale that Gloops was &#8220;one of the leading mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[206,207,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}