{"id":1465,"date":"2020-03-31T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2020-04-01T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:38:40","slug":"colopl-buys-steinsgate-developer-mages-for-15-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/colopl-buys-steinsgate-developer-mages-for-15-million","title":{"rendered":"Colopl buys Steins;Gate developer Mages for $15 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Colopl has bought Japanese developer Mages for \u00a51.6 billion ($14.92 million). The studio is best known for its visual novels, including the Steins;Gate series, which has since been adapted into an animated series with a live-action show on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acquisition was announced during a Colopl board of directors meeting, according to documents translated by Gematsu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will see Colopl purchase all 260 shares in Mages from current stakeholder Chiyomaru Studio, making the studio a wholly-owned subsidiary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colopl is a mobile entertainment business, and adds Mages IP ot its portfolio in the hopes of improving its position in the competitive mobile market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight months ago, Mages broke off from its former parent, the Kadokawa Group, to become independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colopl has bought Japanese developer Mages for \u00a51.6 billion ($14.92 million). The studio is best known for its visual novels, including the Steins;Gate series, which has since been adapted into an animated series with a live-action show on the way. The acquisition was announced during a Colopl board of directors meeting, according to documents translated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[323,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"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=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}