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16 votes
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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
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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
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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
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Speedrun.com acquired by Elo Entertainment (owner of Dotabuff & co.), founder steps down
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Esports tournament organizers ESL and DreamHack have merged
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What happened to twelve of gaming's biggest studios after they were sold
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Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda, id Software, Arkane Studios, and more
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The storefront conundrum - Thoughts about where to sell a text-based indie game
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Ubisoft fires former Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director following an investigation
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Epic Games closes a $1.78 billion funding round, with the company's valuation now at $17.3 billion
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Sony Corporation invests $250 million in Epic Games
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2K Games breaks gaming's de facto $60 (USD) price ceiling, announces MSRP for next-gen NBA 2K21 as $70
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Kongregate is no longer accepting new games, will shut down almost all of their chat/forums in three weeks, and is laying off employees
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Mixer’s sudden shutdown has streamers scrambling to reboot their careers on Twitch
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Microsoft is shutting down their Mixer livestreaming service on July 22 and encouraging users to switch to Facebook Gaming
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Ready at Dawn (developer of VR games Lone Echo, Echo Arena, Echo Combat) has been aquired by Facebook's Oculus Studios
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Riot Games investigating exec who blamed George Floyd’s murder on his "lifestyle"
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RuneScape developer Jagex acquired for $530 million by Macarthur Fortune Holding
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ValueAct eyes Nintendo with stake of over $1.1 billion - letter
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Finland's biggest game maker Supercell reported its full-year 2019 sales rose 2% to 1.39 billion euros
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Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs has been acquired by Garena for $150 million
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Competition between video game streaming platforms is heating up as Mixer, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming lure away high-profile Twitch streamers with multi-million-dollar offers
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Tencent announces offer to acquire full ownership of Funcom
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The closing walls around China’s independent game developers
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Ubisoft revamps editorial team to make its games more unique
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Introducing the GamesIndustry.biz Academy, a new section of the site for guides on a variety of topics related to game development and the industry
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Epic Games Store has generated $680 million in revenue so far, largely from exclusives. Weekly free games will continue through 2020
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Fantasy Flight Games appears to have laid off at least ten staff, and is shutting down Fantasy Flight Interactive
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Sixteen significant gaming industry figures talk about some of the major trends and changes in gaming over the last decade
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Amid accusations of harassment and bad business practices, Ben Judd has resigned or been removed from his positions as CEO of Dangen, VP of DDM Japan, and more
4 votes