hugging group to my in place a deal to pour Buy Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, Square Enix Montrealand a « license catalog that includes Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, Legacy of Kain and more than 50 games from the Square Enix Holdings catalog » for 300 million of dollars.
Embracer to share the info via a release, Disant that l’acquisition includes around 1100 employees sur trois studios et huit lieux internationaux. The agreement, if it is completed, will be concluded during the 2nd quarter of Embracer’s fiscal year (2022/2023).
« Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir ces studios au sein d’Embracer Group. We recognize the fantastic licences, the creative talent of the world class and the awards of excellence who have demonstrated encore and encore during the last few decades. It is a great pleasure to meet the leadership teams and to discuss plans for the future to realize their ambitions and fully integrate Embracer, » explains Lars Wingefors, Co-founder and PDG of the groupe chez Embracer Group.
«Embracer est le secret le mieux gardé du gaming: a massive and decentralized collection of entrepreneurs who nous sommes heureux de rejoindre aujourd’hui. C’est le partenaire idéal of our ambitions: faire des jeux de grande qualité, avec des gens géniaux, durablement, et faire grandir nos licenses extantes vers leurs meilleurs versions. Embracing our permission to forge new partnerships through all the media to maximize the potential of our licenses and live our dreams of creating extraordinary entertainment,” explains Phil Rogers, CEO of Square Enix America and Europe.
One fois l’accord passedé, Embracer comptera plus 14,000 employees, 10,000 game developers, and 124 proprietary studios. Il est aussi confirmed qu’il ya plus 230 jeux en développement, et dont plus 30 AAA titles.
The information is new for the time being after Crystal Dynamics announced the development of a novelty for Tomb Raider using Unreal Engine 5. Although there are other details on this fourteen, more equipment is available than declared as a package. sur la fidelity.”
Crystal Dynamics is also the studio behind Marvel’s Avengers and helped The Initiative by Microsoft to conceive the new Perfect Dark.
Eidos Montréal is the studio behind Thief 4, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, et plus, et il travaille sur « plusieurs projets AAA dont deux nouveaux opus de licenses populaires et une license originale. »
Square Enix Montréal is responsible for games like Hitman GO, Tomb Raider GO, and Deus Ex GO, and continues to work in the mobile space to create games based on AAA licenses.
These are the first acquisitions of the Embracer group, which has continued a rapid expansion these last years. Parmi les sociétés jointly acquires Dark Horse Comics, 3D Realms, Ghost Ship Games, Gearbox, THQ Nordic, Saber Interactive, Koch Media, etc.
Erwan Lafleuriel is a writer at Chef d’IGN France. Esclave du jeu video depuis 40 ans, il ne s’en échappe que ponctuellement pour pleurer ses défaites sur Twitter.
Reference-fr.ign.com