So far this year in the gaming industry is marked by gigantic deals that are fundamentally changing the current distribution of forces. After Take Two who bought it Zyngu mobileMicrosoft and their absorption of the giant Activision Blizzard or Bungie classification the Embracer Group is now surprising in the structure of the gaming division from Sony. The Swedish giant, which was formed on the basis of players from the far more resonant publishing house THQ Nordic, has been in the mood in recent years. For example, he recently bought the studios Gearbox (Borderlands), Aspyr Media or the Czech Warhorse, and now he has also bought a substantial part of the Square Enix publishing house.
2. may 2022 at 8:46, post archived: 2. may 2022 at 10:57
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Something tells us that the Legacy of Kain brand will be better without Square Enix.
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Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal and Square Enix Montréal are now included for approximately $ 300 million (approximately 7 billion crowns). In addition to about 1,100 employees, these are also the rights to the established Tomb Raider brands and, in recent years, the criminally unused Deus Ex, Thief or Legacy of Kain. Will this transaction mean their recovery? This is quite likely, although so far only a new part of Tomb Raider has been officially announced, which will run on the Unreal 5 engine (see our article).
On the other hand, we are beginning to have serious concerns about the Japanese label Square Enix, as it is their further departure from single-player story experiences towards modern “social” online games. And they are not doing very well there yet, see for example the failure of the Avengers or, most recently, the terrible Babylon’s Fall this year (see our reviews). About the fact that CEO Josuke Matsuda sees the future of the company in hated NFTblockchains and metasworlds, maybe not to mention.
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