{"id":152,"date":"2019-10-19T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2019-10-19T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:31:13","slug":"saber-acquires-bigmoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/saber-acquires-bigmoon","title":{"rendered":"Saber Interactive acquires Bigmoon Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Saber Interactive<\/strong><\/em> is an American-based video game developer. The company has been founded in 2001 and has grown into one of the largest and longest-standing developers of interactive games in Russia and Eastern Europe. One of the recently successful Saber&#8217;s projects is zombie-apocalypse shooter <em>World War Z<\/em>, released in April 2019. Also, id Software producer and game director <em>Tim Willits<\/em> joined the company this year in August.<br><br>Keep broadening itself, <em>Saber Interactive<\/em> announced yesterday it&#8217;s acquiring <em><strong>Bigmoon Entertainment<\/strong><\/em>, Portugual-based games developer known for such titles as <em>Syndrome, Demons Age<\/em> and a number of racing games. Saber has not divulged information about the cost of acquisition, but has stated that company &#8221; would have sought to acquire the studio even if World War Z had been a more modest success&#8221;.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:right\" class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> <em>&#8220;Saber is always on the lookout for teams with creativity, passion and  expertise, and the crew at Bigmoon is a perfect fit for our culture and  ambitions<\/em>.&#8221;  <\/p><cite>  Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the <em>Bigmoon<\/em> team will be renamed into <strong>&#8220;<\/strong><em><strong>Saber Porto<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; and it will work on two unannounced projects with no release dates yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saber Interactive is an American-based video game developer. The company has been founded in 2001 and has grown into one of the largest and longest-standing developers of interactive games in Russia and Eastern Europe. One of the recently successful Saber&#8217;s projects is zombie-apocalypse shooter World War Z, released in April 2019. Also, id Software producer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[15,14,13,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}