{"id":1931,"date":"2020-08-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2020-08-18T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:04:20","slug":"take-two-will-acquire-mobile-developer-playdots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/take-two-will-acquire-mobile-developer-playdots","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two will acquire mobile developer Playdots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The acquisition worth $90m in cash and around $100m in stock, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> Our acquisition of Playdots will diversify and strengthen further  Take-Two\u2019s mobile game offerings, particularly within the casual,  free-to-play segment. Two Dots continues to grow its audience and under  the leadership of Nir, the addition of scavenger hunts, social leader  boards and live-ops technology are enhancing the game and driving  meaningful, long-term consumer engagement.\u00a0 <\/p><cite> Michael Worosz,  Take-Two executive vice president <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in New York, Take-Two Interactive is the parent company of Rockstar Games and 2K Games. The company also has a strong presence on mobile and claims this acquisition will help give it more exposure to the \u201ccasual,  free-to-play games\u201d market.\u00a0Playdots chief executive Nir Efrat will continue to oversee the studio under its new ownership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> We are very pleased to  welcome Nir and the entire team at Playdots to  the Take-Two family and  are excited by the potential of their  development pipeline and positive,  long-term contributions to our  business.  <\/p><cite>  Michael Worosz,  Take-Two executive vice president  <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 2013, the New York-based Playdots is known for puzzle game\u00a0Two Dots, which has been downloaded over 80 million times since its launch six years ago. They\u2019ve accumulated more than 100 million downloads from all projects in total and continue to grow. And that\u2019s exactly what makes the developer so appealing to Take-Two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acquisition worth $90m in cash and around $100m in stock, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2020. Our acquisition of Playdots will diversify and strengthen further Take-Two\u2019s mobile game offerings, particularly within the casual, free-to-play segment. Two Dots continues to grow its audience and under the leadership of Nir, the addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}