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The Embracer Group comes for us all in the end. This time, the European megapublisher is acquiring Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and Square Enix Montreal along with their IPs. That includes Tomb Raider and Deus Ex. But while this continues to bolster Embracer’s publishing efforts…
Work on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake evidently hasn’t gone as smoothly as Ubisoft hoped. The company has now put its Montreal studio in charge of the project. Ubisoft Pune and Ubisoft Mumbai had been working on the game.
An update on the development of…
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Apprenti and Epic Games have joined forces to start a first-of-its-kind Unreal Engine focused apprenticeship program. Epic Games will be starting by matching a…
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Ubisoft announced that development of the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake has been taken over by Ubisoft Montreal. Formerly in the hands of Ubisoft’s Pune and Mumbai studios, the game has shifted back to its original creator.
The announcement reads, “This decision is an…
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May is an interesting month this year. We don’t have a whole lot of massive triple-A games. Several that might have kept us busy during that time have been delayed…
A lot of companies have already entered the metaverse in some way, and today another big name is doing so. Spotify has announced that its venture into virtual worlds is coming via a Roblox interactive space called Spotify Island. The setting is a place where users can create…
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Square Enix is offloading some of its largest studios. The publisher announced it is selling Crystal Dynamics and Eidos to European megapublisher Embracer Group for $300 million. The deal enables Square to get these less-profitable teams off its books. This is especially important during a…
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The Call of Duty Endowment has reached a big milestone as it announced it has placed 100,000 veterans into meaningful jobs.
In doing so, the Call of Duty Endowment…
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Square Enix is washing its hands of its biggest western studios. The company announced it is selling Eidos and Crystal Dynamics to Embracer Group. This raises…
Swedish game company Embracer Group has just made a blockbuster deal to acquire Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal and Square Enix Montréal for what seems like a bargain $300 million price, the company confirmed in a press release. The deal includes a “catalogue of IPs including Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, Legacy of Kain and more than 50 back-catalogue games from Square Enix…
