So, What Does Embracer Group Actually Own The Rights To?

From what I can tell, Embracer does not own the rights to Little Nightmares. They acquired the lead developers, Tarsier Studios, who have announced that they are stepping away from Little Nightmares after developing Little Nightmares 2. The rights to Little Nightmares remains in the hands of the publisher, Bandai Namco.

It's interesting that Square Enix kept Outriders as part of the sale to Embracer Group. Of all the IP to keep, why Outriders over Tomb Raider or Deux Ex?

So basically it's Swedish Disney.

Thousands of employees will be crushed when the monster squid starts shedding tentacles.

Time to Embrace our new evil overlords. Don’t fight it.

Embracer Group owns a lot of non-video games things I've enjoyed for years, and I never even knew.
I find this... disconcerting.

I think the idea of corporate overlords owning entire huge chunks of creative output is very disconcerting, actually.

Yeah them owning all this stuff is kind of weird and not great for the industry. Also insert gex joke here

All those titles without hyperlinks really show you guys need to open up a PC site, Board Game site, and Movie / Media site. Chop chop Hookshot!

Seriously though. They sure have their fingers in a lot of pies. I'm glad at the least they seem to be doing something with most of those IPs. Am not glad that their money is directly funding Square-Enix's spiral into NFT hell.

everyone is worried about Microsoft and Sony buying stuff. Meanwhile, Embracer keeps buying up more and more under the radar

I don't even know what Embracer does with all these IPs. There's a new Saints Row and...???

I'm sure I could find this out if I cared to Google it, but how the hell does this Swedish company no one (and by no one I mean me) has ever heard of have enough money to buy the rights to the Lord of the Rings? I know they bought the remnants of THQ several years ago and a few tiny little game studios, but that's pocket change. Now they're some sort of behemoth that somehow owns everything?

I, for one, am looking forward to the Embracer Expanded Universe

So long as Embracer Group doesn't influence the creative freedom of these IPs and studios and allows them to operate as they did before they were purchased then I don't really see a major issue. This is unlikely though, Embracer will most likely favor certain studios and IPs and leave others to rot...

Important to note that, for example, a lot of the comics published by Dark Horse listed above were licensed from Fox, now owned by Disney, so a lot of those comics were moved from Dark Horse to Marvel or Boom (including republication rights for books created by Dark Horse).

So while Dark Horse did make Alien comic books, that in no way means Embracer own the rights to make more Alien products, without licensing them from Disney.

It would be better to limit those lists to IPs actually owned by Dark Horse, and keep the Alien/Buffy/Serenity stuff as a footnote - like you did for the ports of Witcher and Force Unleashed.

The list as it is could be seen as misleading. Embracer don’t own Alien.

That is the picture of bloat. They own so much nothing gets made and when it does - it barely surpasses shovelware.

I sincerely hope gaming goes into a steep decline in the very near future. We'd all be better for it.

Kate, you missed an L in the last sentence of your article.

@PharoneTheGnome that's because it's owned by the Embracer Group

@gaga64 Yup, you're right, I could have made the wording clearer on that, so I've added a paragraph!

@Kyloctopus I knew I'd miss at least one, thanks for pointing it out!

@PharoneTheGnome One typo in all those words ain't too bad 😅 but thanks for pointing it out, I've added in the L!

@CharlieGirl the fact that they’ve owned things you’ve enjoyed for years isn’t necessarily a bad sign then if you didn’t know about it?

It won’t be long before they have acquired a country at this rate.

I had no idea they own Gothic, Risen, Elex and Kingdom Come

Homeworld ! Oh my oh my

@Rambler you mean crossovers or something like super embracer bros melee?

I’m into that 😁

Limited Run has made games, sort of. Their 2 first releases were made by the same people who own the company. Source : Wikipedia.

@KateGray it didn't bother me honestly. I was just looking for a way to get you to talk to me. in my best Joey voice How YOU doing?

Embracer? But I hardly know her!

@Friendly
I wasn't actually thinking exactly that, but now I am!

Gandalf Vs Xenomorph Vs Duke Nukem!

That is a concerningly long list of recognizable names they have control over...

Now let's see some stupid IP crossovers!

Gex and James Bond team up to save Middle Earth.

They put up a video even they took over Asmodee. They seem to know what they are doing and it helpes they're European.

Whatever happens with their new Lord of the Rings project, let's agree that they are absolute cowards if they don't make Duke Nukem the star

@KingMike nobody steals our [hobbits] and lives

Doubt they will ever use Torchlight lol 😂

If they can somehow get quality Legacy of Kain sequels made, then they'll be my favorite company ever.

Crap... Huge catalog, hope they know what they are doing...

Wow all of a sudden Embracer is bigger than everyone.

With Alone in the Dark on the way, I'm hoping for Gex, Time Splitters and Legacy of Kain to make a comeback from their IP list next.

Haven't Embracer said that they're very interested in game preservation? Them holding all these rights hopefully means that they'll at least try to get older games from the companies they own working properly on modern hardware.

That's a lot. Thanks for the guide
The only thing I really care about is the Timesplitters series!!

@PharoneTheGnome that’s super cringe, mate… Stop trying to chat up the staff 😂

@Serpenterror Are all those Ubisoft companies real? And is that really their logo? Looks someone tried to draw their old logo in MS Paint.
I'd say even their early '90s logo with colored shapes was better.

@PessitheMystic lol. I'm not sure its technically cringe worthy to try to strike up a conversation with someone you find interesting. If the person doesn't want the conversation, they don't respond, and you move on. Continuing the conversation attempts would be cringe worthy.