{"id":13986,"date":"2002-05-24T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2002-05-24T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/05\/24\/gaming-war-of-the-rings-when-games-collide\/"},"modified":"2002-05-24T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2002-05-24T17:43:31","slug":"gaming-war-of-the-rings-when-games-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/05\/24\/13986-gaming-war-of-the-rings-when-games-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"GAMING: War of the &#8216;Rings&#8217;: When Games Collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">LOS ANGELES (AP) &#151; Soon after Kenneth Cron became head of Vivendi Universal Games last year, he was faced with a career-defining decision &#151; whether to spend millions to develop games based on J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s fantasy novels. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/cyber\/tech\/review\/2002\/5\/24\/spotlight.htm\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>] [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/haven.theonering.net\/index.shtml\">Gaming Havens<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#151; Soon after Kenneth Cron became head of Vivendi Universal Games last year, he was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-3DA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}