{"id":6231,"date":"2008-12-04T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-04T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T10:31:00","slug":"electronic-arts-buys-game-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/6231-electronic-arts-buys-game-developer.html","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Arts buys game developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US videogame publisher Electronic Arts on Wednesday announced it had purchased J2MSoft Inc., a South Korean developer of online games for personal computers.    <\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is a significant step in EA&#8217;s strategic plan for developing and publishing online games in Asia,&quot; said Jon Niermann, president of EA Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;J2M is an experienced team of developers and we can&#8217;t wait to have them start creating online games based on new properties and powerful EA franchises,&quot; he added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but EA said it does not expect the acquisition to have a material impact on its fiscal 2009 results.<\/p>\n<p>EA said J2M, which was founded in 2004 and has 50 employees, develops free-to-play online games which are monetized through micro-transactions and advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Its stable of online games includes RayCity, TAAN and Debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US videogame publisher Electronic Arts on Wednesday announced it had purchased J2MSoft Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}