{"id":388781,"date":"2010-03-04T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=66547"},"modified":"2010-03-04T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:08:56","slug":"offbeat-creations-bought-by-playdom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388781","title":{"rendered":"Offbeat Creations Bought by Playdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/Gaming\/\">Gaming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/acquisitions\/\">acquisitions<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Gregory T. Huang wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bellevue, WA-based Offbeat Creations, a developer and publisher of Facebook gaming apps, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/playdom-announces-acquisition-of-offbeat-creations-inc-86254917.html\">has been acquired<\/a> by Playdom, the social gaming company based in Mountain View, CA. Financial terms of the deal weren&#8217;t released. Offbeat Creations is best known for its dice game, Super Farkle. Its founders, Chia Chin Lee, Robert Reichner, and Tom Fakes, are joining Playdom in leadership roles, and its 12 developers and designers will join Playdom&#8217;s existing 15-person Seattle studio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/03\/04\/offbeat-creations-bought-by-playdom\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20Offbeat%20Creations%20Bought%20by%20Playdom%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=66547\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/03\/04\/offbeat-creations-bought-by-playdom\/&#038;t=Offbeat%20Creations%20Bought%20by%20Playdom\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/03\/04\/offbeat-creations-bought-by-playdom\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=Offbeat+Creations+Bought+by+Playdom&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fseattle%2F2010%2F03%2F04%2Foffbeat-creations-bought-by-playdom%2F\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t     \t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=1529155e11c4ccdf92304eb815ba4d49&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=1529155e11c4ccdf92304eb815ba4d49&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2218\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4QIa2OHpsTyyL9cI9ulUZovox7g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4QIa2OHpsTyyL9cI9ulUZovox7g\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4QIa2OHpsTyyL9cI9ulUZovox7g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4QIa2OHpsTyyL9cI9ulUZovox7g\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Xconomy_Full\/~4\/Ep1eTIenrSQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deals, Gaming, acquisitions Gregory T. Huang wrote: Bellevue, WA-based Offbeat Creations, a developer and publisher of Facebook gaming apps, has been acquired by Playdom, the social gaming company based in Mountain View, CA. Financial terms of the deal weren&#8217;t released. Offbeat Creations is best known for its dice game, Super Farkle. Its founders, Chia Chin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}