King has acquired its first gaming studio in the USA

The British publisher and developer King has acquired the Z2Live game studio in the USA. This is the first studio bought by the company in America.

The transaction value was $45 million. Kipd has also committed to pay Z2Live up to $105 million, depending on how successful the Battle Nations studio game will be.

Z2Live has the already mentioned strategy for PC and mobile platforms Battle Nations and flight simulator MetalStorm: Online for iOS. Both of them differ significantly from the title titles of the British company. King said that this difference was the main reason for the purchase: the company, apparently, wants to master new game genres for itself.

A graph that reflects the rating of the game Battle Nations in the ranking of downloads on iOS in the period from 15.01.2015 to 12.02.2015 (App Annie data)

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Z2Live is a studio from Seattle. Founded in 2009. She started as a game developer for consoles and PC, then switched to mobile games. The title titles are the Trade Nations simulator, the Battle Nations strategy for PC and mobile platforms, and the MetalStorm: Online flight simulator for iOS.