{"id":342459,"date":"2017-06-01T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/31\/take-two-buys-kerbal-space-program\/21|22119317"},"modified":"2017-06-01T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:17:00","slug":"take-two-nabs-the-rights-to-kerbal-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/take-two-nabs-the-rights-to-kerbal-space-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two nabs the rights to &#8216;Kerbal Space Program&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As for what happens to the current game? Thankfully, not much. Squad is <a href=\"https:\/\/kerbalspaceprogram.com\/en\/?page_id=747\">promising<\/a> that it&#8217;ll continue developing <em>Kerbal Space Program<\/em>, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/19\/kerbal-space-program-expansion\/\"><em>Making History<\/em> expansion<\/a>. If anything, the Take-Two deal gives it a boost &#8212; it now has an &#8220;experienced publisher&#8221; supporting its marquee title.<\/p>\n<p>In that sense, the only question is about the series&#8217; future. <em>KSP<\/em> built up its reputation based on its combination of (mostly) realistic space exploration with the charm of its panicky Kerbal astronauts. How does Take-Two capitalize on this without diluting what made the first game special? And is there a large audience for the series outside of the fans who&#8217;ve been around since the Early Access days? We could certainly see Take-Two turning <em>KSP<\/em> into a gaming powerhouse, but it may have to walk a fine line between pleasing loyal fans and branching out to rookies who don&#8217;t know the first thing about escape velocities or apoapsis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/ce7f9444de24bb5505d29226e6a7e72e\/205328138\/kerbal-space-program-3-ed.jpg\" \/>The news about ex-Squad members leaving for Valve was ultimately overblown, but there&#039;s still plenty of drama in the indie developer&#039;s life: Take-Two Interactive has bought the rights to Kerbal Space Program. The move will turn the spaceship building&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-342459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}