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6 votes
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Embracer's Lars Wingefors has spoken to investors about Saints Row, admitting he had hoped the game would have received a 'greater reception'
5 votes -
Embracer Group, parent company for a vast and expanding roster of studios and publishers, goes on a spending spree buying up Middle-earth Enterprises and more
9 votes -
Inside the growing discontent behind Nintendo’s fun facade
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Riot Games announces new equity investment in “Arcane” animation studio Fortiche Production
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Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted
21 votes -
PlayStation has acquired Bungie for $3.6 billion
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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion USD
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Calling the shot: The next five years at Riot Games
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‘Ready Or Not’ dev splits with publisher Team17
9 votes -
Harmonix acquired by Epic Games
4 votes -
California lawsuit against PlayStation alleges gender discrimination
5 votes -
Bobby Kotick actually wrote Fran Townsend's deranged, company-wide email
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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick knew for years about sexual-misconduct allegations at videogame giant
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Pop star Zara Larsson says she's made a seven-figure sum by selling merchandise on the video game platform Roblox
9 votes -
Activision Blizzard settles with federal employment agency for $18 Million
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Paradox Interactive CEO steps down over 'differing views on the company's strategy'
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Curt Schilling’s failed game studio finally sends last paychecks
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Diablo IV game director out at Blizzard
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Blizzard turned game developers into rock stars. Misbehavior followed
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Activision Blizzard are being sued by their investors now
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How the founder’s toxic culture tore apart Fullbright, the studio behind Gone Home
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New leadership at Blizzard
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How Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
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Activision Blizzard hires union-busting firm as workers start to come together
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Activision Blizzard employees are walking out in protest
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Inside Blizzard developers’ infamous Bill ‘Cosby Suite’
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Activision Blizzard sued by California over ‘frat boy’ culture
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Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine
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Humble Bundle is removing the "choose where your money goes" sliders, intending to switch to a choice between giving 5% or 15% to charity
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Epic Games paid developers about $11.7 million for the games they gave away for free on the Epic Store from December 2018 to September 2019
14 votes -
Microsoft reducing Windows store cut to just twelve percent
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Epic Games has completed a $1 billion funding round at a $28.7 billion valuation, including another $200M investment from Sony
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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is very excited about the Epic Games Store losing a ton of money
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Sony Interactive Entertainment and new esports venture RTS have jointly acquired the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) fighting game tournament
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Epic Games acquires Fall Guys developer Mediatonic
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Embracer Group acquires Gearbox Entertainment (Borderlands), Aspyr Media (Civilization VI), and Easybrain (mobile puzzle games)
These are large acquisitions, but Embracer Group already owns a lot: The Group has an extensive catalogue of over 200 owned franchises, such as Saints Row, Goat Simulator, Dead Island, Darksiders,...
These are large acquisitions, but Embracer Group already owns a lot:
The Group has an extensive catalogue of over 200 owned franchises, such as Saints Row, Goat Simulator, Dead Island, Darksiders, Metro, MX vs ATV, Kingdoms of Amalur, TimeSplitters, Satisfactory, Wreckfest, Insurgency and World War Z amongst many others.
With its head office based in Karlstad, Sweden, Embracer Group has a global presence through its six operative groups: THQ Nordic GmbH, Koch Media GmbH/Deep Silver, Coffee Stain AB, Amplifier Game Invest, Saber Interactive and DECA Games. The Group has 57 internal game development studios and is engaging more than 5,500 employees and contracted employers in more than 40 countries.
Articles about each of the new acquisitions on GamesIndustry.biz:
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Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus
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Klei Entertainment has agreed to a deal for Tencent to purchase a majority stake in the company
9 votes -
Roblox raises $520 million at $29.5 billion valuation, cancels their plans for a traditional IPO and will go public via direct listing instead
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Electronic Arts reaches agreement for recommended acquisition of British racing game developer Codemasters for approximately $1.2 billion
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EverQuest studio Daybreak Games acquired by EG7
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A case for the possible sale of Wizards of the Coast
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Sex, lies and video games: Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry — instead, everyone played each other
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Roblox files for IPO - Kid-focused, user-generated content platform has not yet turned a profit despite skyrocketing DAUs, bookings
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Take-Two Interactive reaches agreement for recommended acquisition of British racing game developer Codemasters for almost $1 billion
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How Sierra was captured, then killed, by a massive accounting fraud
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Despite brute-forcing its way to dominance in many other industries, Amazon is having difficulty getting a foothold in games
11 votes -
Speedrun.com acquired by Elo Entertainment (owner of Dotabuff & co.), founder steps down
13 votes -
Esports tournament organizers ESL and DreamHack have merged
9 votes