malek86
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Post by malek86 on Feb 29, 2024 18:38:47 GMT
Starting to feel even worse about potentially buying the AITD remake next month. I'm almost hoping reviews are bad just so I have an excuse to bail out.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 29, 2024 19:54:10 GMT
I'm wondering who's decided to buy Gearbox. I feel like it's going to be someone like Amazon, purely from a transmedia point of view.
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Post by baihu1983 on Feb 29, 2024 19:55:12 GMT
Sega...
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 29, 2024 19:56:26 GMT
You think? Would they have the money for that purchase???
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Post by baihu1983 on Feb 29, 2024 19:59:16 GMT
Not sure. How much are they valued at?
Sega bought the Angry Birds studio for nearly 800m last year so maybe they want to continue to invest. Wouldn't be a bad company for them to have.
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 29, 2024 20:02:56 GMT
Take-Two would make some sense I would think as it was a surprise they didn't pick them up when they were in the mood to sell the company given their long time links over Borderlands.
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Post by baihu1983 on Feb 29, 2024 20:05:40 GMT
Continue the Brothers in Arms series whoever it is.
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Post by apollo on Mar 1, 2024 10:54:35 GMT
I'm betting tencent is the buyer for gearbox, they have been on buying and investing spree
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Post by zisssou on Mar 15, 2024 9:06:43 GMT
So Embracer have sold off Saber Interactive.
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Post by knighty on Mar 15, 2024 9:51:24 GMT
That means Space Marine 2 is alright then?
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 15, 2024 12:04:17 GMT
That means Space Marine 2 is alright then? Yes Saber released a press release yesterday to confirm that particular game and a few others were in active development still for anyone concerned. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 15, 2024 13:00:58 GMT
Beambog?
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malek86
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Post by malek86 on Mar 15, 2024 15:20:47 GMT
Not sure if Embracer retaining part of the studios means they wanted to keep them, or Saber wasn't interested.
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 28, 2024 4:57:12 GMT
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Post by ekz on Mar 28, 2024 7:00:20 GMT
Duke Brothers of Rain on the Borderlands of Tina's Home: Online
Can see it printing money for T2
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Post by apollo on Mar 28, 2024 7:05:37 GMT
take 2 can have loads of MTX in the next borderlands, 3.99 for a gun (best value!!!111) or 1.99 for one time use. or buy tina shark cards to buy ingame crap. Booster xp packs with always online.
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Post by mothercruncher on Mar 28, 2024 9:09:14 GMT
what? C’mon- its been two hours!
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Post by zisssou on Mar 28, 2024 9:21:01 GMT
Seems a bit of an odd choice to sell off potentially your best franchise, considering the film is on the cusp of coming out. Sure, it's a good chunk of change, but you'd assume they'd make some dollar back...
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 28, 2024 9:33:51 GMT
Take-Two would make some sense I would think as it was a surprise they didn't pick them up when they were in the mood to sell the company given their long time links over Borderlands. One month passes...
INSIDE INFORMATION: Embracer Group has today entered into an agreement to divest Gearbox Entertainment, for a consideration of USD 460 million (SEK 4.9 billion) to Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“Take-Two”). The proceeds from the deal will, upon closing, significantly reduce net debt, earnout obligations and capex. Embracer retains selected companies, including Gearbox Publishing San Francisco (to be renamed), with the publishing rights to the Remnant franchise, the upcoming Hyper Light Breaker and other notable unannounced game releases.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 28, 2024 10:57:32 GMT
Speaking of Dev sales, I also see that Sega has sold off Relic so now it's an independent studio but seeing as it cut half of its staff we'll see how that goes. Oh...and Sega made 240 people redundant, mainly from Creative Assembly.
Ahh good old firing people to create a small improvement to your bottom line, losing all of in house knowledge and then having to hire more people in the future because you need that knowledge again. It's foolproof.
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 28, 2024 11:03:48 GMT
Possibly a lot of the Creative Assembly job cuts are down to Hyenas being cancelled, I still don't know how that ever got into production.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 28, 2024 11:13:23 GMT
Possibly a lot of the Creative Assembly job cuts are down to Hyenas being cancelled, I still don't know how that ever got into production. I guess like every live service game you see being announced. "Wow, we're going to be like Fortnite and make so much money!" |
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 28, 2024 11:17:00 GMT
Big problem with Hyenas it looked like a F2P game that took elements from lots of other F2P games with tons of Sega nostalgia thrown on top but then wasn't actually a F2P game. It was never going to work as a full priced title.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 28, 2024 11:21:32 GMT
This is the issue, a lot of these GaaS games should be F2P but they're sold as boxed products and they're shocked when people balk at paying that 70 quid asking price. But also you have a good amount of younger people as your audience who have grown up with games being free at the point of entry.
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Post by Vandelay on Mar 28, 2024 12:55:40 GMT
Speaking of Dev sales, I also see that Sega has sold off Relic so now it's an independent studio but seeing as it cut half of its staff we'll see how that goes. Oh...and Sega made 240 people redundant, mainly from Creative Assembly. Ahh good old firing people to create a small improvement to your bottom line, losing all of in house knowledge and then having to hire more people in the future because you need that knowledge again. It's foolproof. Just seen this. Relic getting dropped isn't too surprising, considering CoH3 was a bit of a flop, as was DoW3 not long ago. Age of Empires 4 was reasonably well regarded critically (no idea about it's commercial success), but not sure if Sega had anything to do with that one as a Microsoft published game. Bit weird that Sega had become the big name in the PC strategy market, but looks like that might have just changed. |
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 29, 2024 4:35:55 GMT
Oh
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 29, 2024 8:57:54 GMT
Borderlands MTX ridden future awaits.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2024 23:32:30 GMT
FWIW, Take Two/2K published all the previous Borderlands titles. That was actually a natural fit.
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Post by apollo on Apr 2, 2024 9:30:42 GMT
EG has a story about "Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors has acknowledged it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios."
No shit!
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Post by rajin on Apr 2, 2024 15:22:05 GMT
Wait untill Tencent or some hedgefund gets involved. Embracer will be back to their old ways of asset stripping.
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