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Sony Online Entertainment, the online games division of Sony, has bought the Pox Nora online collectible strategy game from Tucson-based developer Octopi.
As part of the deal, members of the Octopi development team will form SOE’s new Tuscon game development studio. They will support Pox Nora and work with SOE’s Denver, Colo.-based game studio on new trading card and strategy game products. The deal closed Jan. 16.
Pox Nora is a free-to-play game, but players who want to expand their own deck of cards will have to spend real money at the game’s item shop. See more at the Virtual Goods News site.