Ok, I know I tend to go a little overboard sometimes with the big sweeping statements of what big news we have at Player.me and how it will change the world we live in forever…but today, today my friends, that kind of statement may just have some validity to it!

I’m super excited to announce that we’ve been acquired by SplitmediaLabs Limited, the brains behind the massively popular XSplit. Not only that but they’ve also announced the acquisition of Challonge!, the awesome tournament and bracket platform.

If the first thing on your mind is ‘wtf does this mean for me and my beloved Player.me??’, then you’re selfish and you should be thinking of us driving around in our Ferarri’s, smoking cigars and talking about all the nups we met along the way! Only messin, we’re not Notch ;-)

Of course wondering what the future holds for the Players and Player.me is all we could think about when we considered this whole deal. If you’ve been around for a while on the platform, you’ll know that Player.me is pretty much our life and we’ve poured every inch of our being (don’t be disgusting!) into this project. There is no way we would ever think of doing anything that would negatively affect Player.me or that isn’t aligned with our vision of where we want to go with it.

That’s where this deal is so good. When we first met the SML (I’m calling it SML from now on) guys we knew they were cool, we spent a lot of time talking about the state of gaming and where the future might be and this is where the real magic happened. We discovered that our visions were so aligned it would be dangerous to go alone (like what I did there?). So, SML have made a huge commitment to us that we can continue on our path for Player.me because they truly believe in what we’re trying to build here. In fact, with this acquisition and the acquisition of Challonge we’ll be able to accelerate all our plans and make them even bigger than they ever were!

So, we’re just really excited to keep working on the project we love so much with a bunch of new friends and colleagues who love it as much as us, and we’re really excited by all the additional potential that has been unlocked with this deal. In a nutshell it just means that Player.me is going to become more awesome, way quicker than we expected…oh, and in case you’re wondering, you don’t need to be an XSplit user or to have an XSplit premium license to experience this awesomeness :)

I really want to thank a bunch of people for helping us get to this point starting with you, the Players. Seriously, all the hard work over the last 3 years has been possible because so many of you have kept us laughing and crying (seriously, I weeped with laughter at this), shown us your passion for Player.me and really engaged with the community in special ways. Startups are very hard, but having a fun, loyal and helpful group of people who love your product makes it all worthwhile!

Apart from you guys, there are some other people we want to thank…our families and friends for sticking by us through all the ups and downs of startuplife, our investors for believing in us and being there for advice and support, the Player.me ambassadors for dedicating their free time to helping us and the community and last but not least everyone who has worked with us on Player.me, whether for a day or over the past 3 years…now, let’s get back to work!