{"id":2117,"date":"2009-02-09T07:46:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2009-02-09T07:46:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T12:46:17","slug":"stardock-to-open-second-games-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2117","title":{"rendered":"Stardock to Open Second Games Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone else is laying off developers, Stardock is opening <a href=\"http:\/\/impulsedriven.com\/news\/1185_Stardock_to_Open_Second_Games_Studio\">a second games studio<\/a> and hiring a bunch of new people. In Michigan.  To develop an RPG. <\/p>\n<p>I am really, really curious about the RPG part.  In the past the company has developed strategy games and left the pirate-attracting action and RPG market to others.  I wonder what brought about the change.? Is it Impulse, their new content delivery platform? Is someone looking at the existing collection of RPG titles and seeing a market segment that&#8217;s not being adequately filled?  <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, we&#8217;re probably ages away from finding out more.  The press release is short on details and so it&#8217;s obviously an effort to build up buzz.  They just need to attract some unwitting dupes who will begin speculating and clamoring for more news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ah crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone else is laying off developers, Stardock is opening a second games studio and hiring a bunch of new people. In Michigan. To develop an RPG. I am really, really curious about the RPG part. In the past the company has developed strategy games and left the pirate-attracting action and RPG market to others. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-stardock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}