Embracer Group Is Starting to Close Studios After Losing Out on Deal Worth Billions - IGN
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Embracer Group has begun closing studios, including developer Campfire Cabal, which was formed in September of last year.
  • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Article is light on the details, except for Campfire Cabal closing. Features a long and obnoxious slideshow of things they’ve bought, which I’ve summarised below. tl:dr; some really eye-wateringly expensive acquisitions, a few really expensive disasters lately, a couple of big successes, and no overall pattern other than ‘buy everything’:

    • Black Forest (Destroy All Humans! 2)
    • Pieces Interactive (Titan Quest)
    • Experiment 101 (BioMutant)
    • Deep Silver (Homefront, Dead Island, Chronus, Saints Row, Dead Faction)
    • Coffee Stain (Goat Simulator, Satisfactory)
    • Bugbear (Wreckfest)
    • Warhorse (Kingdom Come: Deliverance)
    • Piranha Bytes (Gothic, Risen)
    • Milestone (Hot Wheels Unleashed)
    • Gunfire (Darksiders, Remnant: From The Ashes)
    • Tarsier (Little Nightmares)
    • Saber (Evil Dead, Space Marine 2)
    • 4A (Metro)
    • New World (Insurgency)
    • Vertigo (Arizona Sunshine)
    • Zen (Pinball FX)
    • Purple Lamp (Spongebob)
    • Flying Wild Hog (Shadow Warrior, Evil West)
    • Gearbox (Borderlands)
    • Aspyr (KotOR remake)
    • Ghost Ship (Deep Rock Galactic)
    • DigixArt (Road 96)
    • Slipgate Ironworks (Ghostrunner)
    • 3D Realms (Duke Nukem)
    • Perfect World (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter)
    • Crystal Dynamics / Eidos Montreal (Tomb Raider, Deus Ex)
    • Middle Earth Enterprises (LotR)
    • Tripwire (Killing Floor)
    • Tuxedo (Teardown)

    Just the IPs:

    • Darksiders
    • Red Faction
    • Timesplitters,
    • Kingdom of Amalur
    • CapraObscura@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      64·
      1 year ago

      And those idiots will soon learn there’s no such thing as a “good publisher” because a publisher is, inherently, a worthless middleman and nothing more.

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s almost like having so many studios owned by one entity is a massive risk if that entity stumbles 🙄