#embracer — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #embracer, aggregated by home.social.
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Flera av de stora svenska dataspelsföretagen är USA-ägda. US-amerikanska Microsoft äger Mojang AB och via Activision Blizzard också King.com Ltd som har en filial i Sverige. Electronic Arts (EA) äger Digital Illusions CE AB (DICE) som äger EA Digital Illusions CE AB (EA Dice). Ägare av Electronic Arts (EA) är riskapitalbolaget Silver Lake, riskkapitalbolaget Affinity Partners (Donald Trumps svärson Jared Kushner) och Saudiarabien.
https://blog.zaramis.se/2025/12/25/ar-de-svenska-dataspelsbolagen-usa-agda/ -
Arc Games confirms its management buyout from Embracer (still no clarity on the MMO confusion, though)
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2025/12/02/arc-games-confirms-its-management-buyout-from-embracer-still-no-clarity-on-the-mmo-confusion-though
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Embracer has sold off Arc Games and the sad remains of Cryptic Studios, and yes it’s confusing
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2025/11/26/embracer-has-sold-off-arc-games-and-the-sad-remains-of-cryptic-studios-and-yes-its-confusing
#MMORPG #Neverwinter #StarTrekOnline #Cryptic #Embracer #Deca #ArcGames #Fellowship -
Der saudische Staatsfonds #PIF scheint nach der Übernahme von #EA finanziell ausgeblutet zu sein. Berichte reden von einem #Liquiditätsengpass. Droht im #Gaming nun ein zweiter Fall wie der von #Embracer? https://winfuture.de/news,155181.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
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He should have stepped down at the first sign of trouble!
After overseeing thousands of layoffs and numerous studio closures, Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors is stepping down
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Embracer Group rebrands as Fellowship Entertainment, spins off Coffee Stain and hundreds of studios
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2025/05/22/embracer-group-rebrands-as-fellowship-entertainment-spins-off-coffee-stain-and-hundreds-of-studios
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Embracer to spin off Coffee Stain, rebrand as Fellowship Entertainment and release 76 games in the next year https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/embracer-to-spin-off-coffee-stain-rebrand-as-fellowship-entertainment-and-release-76-games-in-the-next-year/
#Embracer #Gaming #PCGaming #EmbracerGroup #CoffeeStain #FellowshipEntertainment
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It helps to put the devastation that is Embracer Group into numbers:
44 closed studios, 80 cancelled games, 4,500 people fired.
This is the fallout of the continuing consolidation of the video games industry. Studios are gobbled up, their IP looted, and then unceremoniously dumped.
Microsoft isn’t any better, they pull the same shit. Tencent will probably be the next “too big” investor starting to squeeze studios.
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I’m sure most people didn’t really know who Embracer Group was until they acquired Tomb Raider from Square Enix in 2022. And, although they have a long history, in the past three to four years, they only seem to be acquiring studios, and also killing studios.
Before Embracer, there was Nordic Games Licensing, and THQ Nordic, names that are probably a bit more familiar. But the history of this company as Embracer is relatively short, as they continue to speak about themselves as if this is an entity that has been around forever, and also fairly well-known.
Such as recently, when they announced that Embracer Group was coming to an end, and splitting into three companies, they talk about this news, and themselves, as if they’ve done something. As if they’re major players in gaming. But, if you look back, the only thing of note that Embracer Group has done is destroy the studios behind Saints Row, Time Splitters, and now also Alone in the Dark (there are more studios than this that they’ve killed). All this, while making cuts to staff at Crystal Dynamics, and cancelling a new Deus Ex game, while selling off Saber Interactive and Gearbox Studios (among many other things).
It’s starting to look like Embracer is a studio-laundering company.
They say, “We can’t make all the games we want to make.” And I continue to ask the question, “what games have you made?“
Sure, there was THQ Nordic, but that’s a thing of the past now. This is Embracer we’re talking about.
What exactly have you done, as a company?
It couldn’t possibly be about inflating their stocks, since they’re actually sinking themselves as we speak.
Source: https://companiesmarketcap.com/embracer/marketcap
Is Embracer just a bunch of amateurs with delusions of grandeur? I don’t know, probably.
But, this speaks to the gaming business as a whole, right now, and it would be unfair to say Embracer is the only company that’s conducting themselves like a studio-slaughter-house.
It would be unfair to write all of this without also mentioning that Microsoft, an actually well-known company, has and is killing other beloved studios. And they’re doing it entirely to inflate their stocks.
In a world where the poor and the middle-class can’t seem to get a grip on making enough money to be stable, we have these companies in entertainment that are grasping at straws for every imagined extra dollar that they can. And some of them, such as Embracer, are failing miserably.
And yet, we have to sit here, and watch as the studios behind our favorite games are murdered in broad daylight, while they attempt to restructure, to cover their tracks, to rehabilitate their image.
Is Tomb Raider next?
https://cmdr-nova.online/2024/06/17/embracer-group-embrace-destroy-repeat/
#aloneInTheDark #cyrstalDynamics #deusEx #eidos #embracer #embracerGroup #Gaming #greed #tombRaider #vultures
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MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and layoffs for SEGA and Smilegate
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2024/03/28/mmo-business-roundup-the-gearbox-sale-gdc-2024-and-layoffs-for-sega-and-smilegate
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Cryptic CEO says Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online are safe in a ‘steady state’ for content cadence
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2024/03/01/cryptic-ceo-says-star-trek-online-neverwinter-and-champions-online-are-safe-in-a-steady-state-for-content-cadence
#Gearbox #Embracer #Cryptic #Neverwinter #StarTrekOnline #ChampionsOnline #MMORPG