Embracer Group are quite terrifying. The amount of power they have in the gaming industry is simply insane and now they're swallowing up more studios and even the full rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Announced across multiple press releases today they've put out their intention to acquire:
- Limited Run Games - who make physical releases for collectors. This deal will also include something called "Carbon Engine", which is a tech they developed "that allows legacy content and retro games to be effortlessly put out in highly accurate, emulation-based ports for modern platforms".
- Singtrix - an award-winning creator of industry leading vocal processing effects technology for karaoke, gaming, and entertainment.
- Middle-earth Enterprises - so they will own the full worldwide rights to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit and other Middle-earth-related works across motion pictures, video games, board games, merchandising, theme parks and stage productions. So they won't own the actual literary works, just the IP rights to do basically anything with them.
- Tuxedo Labs - they made the pretty awesome game Teardown.
- Tripwire Interactive - developed the Killing Floor and Rising Storm games.
How long before Embracer Group buy up the rest of the internet? I'm expecting a knock on the door soon, kidding of course.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: StalePopcornQuoting: EikeI see the misunderstanding based on my confusing/incorrect grammar.Quoting: StalePopcornToo bad the countries wherein these monolithic, soulless viruses exist also dictate the minds of their respective governments—as most successful parasites do.
The countries dictate the minds of their governments?
Strangely put, but it doesn't actually sound like something bad.
"These monolithic, soulless viruses also dictate the minds of their respective governments in the countries wherein they exist—as most successful parasites do."
That better?
Embracer is from and have it's HQ in Sweden, so please explain what you mean how your quote matches them?
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Dont see anything wrong with this at all. Its positiv, embrace is a swedish company so Im proud, embrace and sweden have alot of good game devs. I would be more worried if china or us was involved, or EA and UBISOFT. This could lead to more lord of the rings games and maybe new takes on the api.
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Last edited by Zelox on 21 August 2022 at 9:00 am UTC
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StalePopcorn Aug 21, 2022
I decided to look up Embracer Group, I'd assumed they were another blood sucker corporation, buying up and sucking smaller companies dry…I hope they don't become another EA.
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When will Amazon purchase Embracer Group? That's my question.
Perhaps they don't give a crap on directing artistic direction and just want a way for investors to make money off the entertainment industry.
Perhaps they don't give a crap on directing artistic direction and just want a way for investors to make money off the entertainment industry.
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From my perspective this could be a good thing.
I consider only the first of the Tomb Raider reboot as a really good game, second and third one have major problems and are imho not as good and milked the concept of the first game to death.
The last really good LotR game for me was Battle for Middleearth which is quite old.
Shadow of Mordor was entertaining but it is so little LotR that you could replace everything storywise and don't make the game worse.
I consider only the first of the Tomb Raider reboot as a really good game, second and third one have major problems and are imho not as good and milked the concept of the first game to death.
The last really good LotR game for me was Battle for Middleearth which is quite old.
Shadow of Mordor was entertaining but it is so little LotR that you could replace everything storywise and don't make the game worse.
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