Embracer Group (Parent Company of THQ Nordic, Saber, Koch, etc) merges with Gearbox & Easybrain, also acquires Aspyr Media

[Stefan.De.Machtige]

B6a6es said:

I might get accused of Tinfoil hatting, but i have this to say

Having 68 studio’s at their grasp (and way more to come), pretty much owning the AA space and now moving on to AAA Studio Acquisitions, and mostly by loans/debt nonetheless is very suspicious to me

I have a huge (bad) feeling that they’re a Proxy game industry acquisition group working for a Trillion dollar company (Apple, Amazon, Google, or god forbid tencent) and at the end to be gobbled by one of them as a whole package of Studios/IP’s for billions of dollars to support their cloud/subscription platform with content (Apple arcade/Amazon Luna/Stadia) instead of one of the big 4 buying 1 or 2 publishers and risk having bad publicity in short term (like Microsoft with consolidation accusations), or worse by starting your own studio’s from scratch and end up like Stadia/Amazon internal studios

Mark my words, a Huge trillion dollar company is behind all of this

This may be possible. A bigger company in the background may be the one who is giving this venture a lot of leverage to borrow such amounts.