{"id":4734,"date":"2021-10-30T23:29:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T06:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=4734"},"modified":"2021-10-31T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T06:14:02","slug":"activision-acquires-mobile-game-developer-digital-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/activision-acquires-mobile-game-developer-digital-legends","title":{"rendered":"Activision Acquires Mobile Game Developer Digital Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/activision-raises-top-1-6m-through-the-sale-of-a-special-cod-pack-for-the-australian-bushfire-relief\" title=\"Activision raises top $1.6m through the sale of a special COD pack for the Australian bushfire relief\">Activision<\/a> announced it had acquired Barcelona-based mobile game studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/ironhide-game-studio-merges-with-major-digital-entertainment-co\" title=\"Ironhide Game Studio Merges With Major Digital Entertainment Co.\">Digital Legends<\/a>. The terms of the deal are unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this acquisition, Digital Legends has joined Activision&#8217;s ever-growing list of completely owned and operated independent studios. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;This is an incredible team of development pros at Digital Legends, and we couldn&#8217;t be more excited to welcome them to the Activision team. This is a great step forward as we continue to build additional world-class development resources focused on creating exciting and innovative content for our players,&#8221; said Activision President Rob Kostich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Xavier Carrillo-Costa, CEO and founder of Digital Legends, commented: &#8220;Becoming part of the Activision family is an exciting time for us at Digital Legends. The addition of our team with years of expertise in high-quality mobile titles for mobile composed by industry veterans and emerging talent will only bolster Activision&#8217;s growing mobile talent pool. We&#8217;re very excited for the opportunity to work on one of the greatest franchises in the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital Legends is well-known for its mobile shooters such as Afterpulse and Respawnables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital Legends is already collaborating with Activision&#8217;s mobile development team throughout this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of Activision, the studio will be supporting an &#8220;unannounced new mobile title within the Call of Duty universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game is currently in development across three studios Activision Shanghai, Solid State, and Beenox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Digital Legends&#8217;s tenure developing highly-polished mobile titles is unparalleled,&#8221; said Chris Plummer, Activision&#8217;s head of mobile. &#8220;More importantly though, our teams already have been collaborating very closely for much of this year. We are building a world-class mobile development roster of talent and teams, and we look forward to what&#8217;s to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Send your news to news@gamesround.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision announced it had acquired Barcelona-based mobile game studio Digital Legends. The terms of the deal are unknown. With this acquisition, Digital Legends has joined Activision&#8217;s ever-growing list of completely owned and operated independent studios. &#8220;This is an incredible team of development pros at Digital Legends, and we couldn&#8217;t be more excited to welcome them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[215,1010,1011,468,1008,1009],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}