If you follow the video games industry you may have noticed that a Swedish holding company has been eating up a ton of smaller development houses as well as some fairly established publishers. They’ve resurrected dormant IPs (Darksiders, Titan Quest, Kingdoms of Amalur) and are among the few publishers supporting smaller new IPs (Biomutant, Elex, Remnant: From the Ashes). They have also swooped in to save studios which have fostered beloved franchises (Metro, Saints Row, Homefront) and have reestablish beloved defunct developers like Free Radical (TimeSplitters). It is my belief that Embracer Group is among the greatest game companines in operation. Which is hilarious because for the longest time I didn’t know who or what they f***ing were.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
A company that’s gobbling up everything they can get their hands on.
Strange take. They are no different than Tencent. Giant company full of venture capital looking to homogenize and monetize gaming to whatever extent they can.
They did come out of nowhere. They must have received a shit ton of private funding.
Sounds to me like a group trying to buy up old IP in an effort to create a library, pump up a couple choice titles to appear like a good purchase by one of the larger houses (apple, Facebook, Netflix, Sony, Microsoft, epic, etc).
Just a guess though. They certainly aren't doing it because they love these old games. It's all about the IP.
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