{"id":101041,"date":"2020-08-19T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T04:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phonezone.ru\/news\/take-two-interactive-acquires-two-dots-game-developer-for-192m\/"},"modified":"2020-08-19T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T04:02:49","slug":"take-two-interactive-acquires-two-dots-game-developer-for-192m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phonezone.ru\/news\/take-two-interactive-acquires-two-dots-game-developer-for-192m\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two Interactive acquires Two Dots game developer for $192M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playdots \u2014 developer of the mobile games Dots, Two Dots and Dots &amp; Co. \u2014 has reached an agreement to be acquired by publisher Take-Two Interactive.<br \/>\nTake-Two will pay $192 million for the deal, $90 million in cash and the remaining $102 million in stock.<br \/>\nPlaydots  was founded in 2014 by Paul Murphy and Patrick Moberg, spinning out of startup studio betaworks with $10 million in funding led by Tencent and Greycroft. It\u2019s currently led by CEO Nir Efrat, a former King.com executive who joined Playdots in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the acquisition announcement, Take-Two (best known for publishing major franchises like BioShock and NBA 2K, plus \u2014 through its Rockstar Games subsidiary \u2014 Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption) says that Erfat will continue to lead Playdots\u2019 70-person team.<br \/>\nApparently the various Dots games have been downloaded more than 100 million times, with more than 80 million of those downloads coming from the most popular title, Two Dots.<br \/>\nIn a statement, Michael Worosz, Take-Two\u2019s executive vice president and head of strategy and independent publishing, said:<br \/>\nOur 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. 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>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guce.techcrunch.com\/consent?brandType=nonEU&#038;done=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch%2Ecom%2F2020%2F08%2F18%2Ftake%2Dtwo%2Dacquires%2Dplaydots%2F&#038;gcrumb=dCSKC1c=\">Take-Two Interactive acquires Two Dots game developer for $192M<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playdots \u2014 developer of the mobile games Dots, Two Dots and Dots &amp; Co. \u2014 has reached an agreement to be acquired by publisher Take-Two Interactive. Take-Two will pay $192 million for the deal, $90 million in cash and the remaining $102 million in stock. Playdots was founded in 2014 by Paul Murphy and Patrick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5227,5114,9069,9070,9071,5664,5116,9072],"tags":[9073,9076,9074,9075],"class_list":["post-101041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-mobile","category-nir-efrat","category-patrick-moberg","category-paul-murphy","category-playdots","category-startups","category-take-two-interactive-software","tag-michael-worosz","tag-nba","tag-rockstar-games","tag-two-dots"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Take-Two Interactive acquires Two Dots game developer for $192M - \u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043c\u043e\u0431\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0439<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Playdots \u2014 developer of the mobile games Dots, Two Dots and Dots &amp; 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