Embracer Group (previously THQ Nordic AB and Nordic Games) has simply introduced at least eight acquisitions, together with that of the studio 4A Games famend for having developed the Metro collection. Already proprietor of many large names like THQ Nordic, Deep Silver, Coffea Stain Studios, Saber Interactive or Amplifier Game Invest, thethe group published its financial results this morning, and nonetheless appears hungry for progress. For 4A Games, the Swedish group has introduced that it has already paid 36 million {dollars}, realizing that the ultimate quantity might climb to 71 million relying on the efficiency of the studio. The 150 workers unfold between Kiev and Malta will now work beneath the Saber Interactive banner. However, Dmitry Glukhovsky’s license will proceed to be developed, however in a barely completely different kind as defined by Dean Sharpe, CEO of 4A Games.
Together, we’ll proceed to function the Metro franchise, and we’ll concentrate on making a multiplayer expertise for our followers. We additionally stay up for creating an much more bold new AAA license within the close to future.
Another vital acquisition: that of New World Interactive, which will even be built-in into Saber Interactive. Composed of 75 workers unfold between Denver and Calgary, the studio behind the Insurgency collection additionally plans to recruit 50 individuals to kind a 3rd department in Montreal. For now, the studio is actively engaged on the console model of its FPS Insurgency: Sandstorm. The latter is anticipated for the start of 2021. Another venture can also be underway, though nothing is thought about it.
Six different smaller constructions have been acquired as effectively, as you possibly can see within the record under.
– Plaindrome Interactive : 14 workers engaged on the technique game Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars who joined Amplifier Game Invest (a construction specialised in supporting and financing new constructions)
– Deca Games : specialists in free-to-play and cellular games. This studio will represent the sixth pole of Embracer Group with THQ Nordic, Klver / Coffea Stain, Saber Interactive and Amplifier Game Invest
– Pow Wow Entertainment : the studio behind the multiplayer game MisBits which joins THQ Nordic.
– Rare Earth Games : a studio made up of “business veterans” specializing in multiplayer motion games. He joins Amplifier Game Invest
– Vermilla Studios : ten workers who work on the survival horror Crisol: theater of Idols, and who be a part of Amplifier Game Invest
– Sola Media : an company that manages the distribution rights of threads and TV collection, which joins Koch Film.
Embracer Group raised an funding of 150 million euros final April to develop, which appears to have been achieved. In his press release, the group says it now has 33 inner studios, or greater than 4,000 workers in 40 international locations and a catalog of 170 licenses together with Saints Row, Darksiders, Metro, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, TimeSplitters, Wreckfest, SnowRunner, Destroy All Humans !, Goat Simulator, Sanctum and even Dead Island. In quick, in a number of years, the Swedish entity has managed to create from virtually nothing an actual big of the video game.
