Good morning /v/, so in case you haven't heard the implosion of the Embracer Group continues since they just announced that they will be splitting into three different companies.
Asmodee Group, Coffee Stain & Friends, and.Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends
Coffee Stain & Friends
The Coffee Stain company will operate under two segments: premium and free-to-play.
The premium division will encompass Coffee Stain, THQ Nordic, Amplifier Game Invest, Ghost Ship, Tarsier, Tuxedo Labs, and more. It will control more than 200 IPs, including Deep Rock Galactic, Goat Simulator, Satisfactory, Wreckfest, Teardown, Valheim.
Meanwhile, the free-to-play segment will include Easybrain, Deca, CrazyLabs and Cryptic, handing games such as Sudoku.com, Blockudoku, Jigsaw Puzzle, and more. This will also handle current licensed free-to-play games such as Star Trek Online and D&D Neverwinter Online.
The Middle-Earth group will include Crystal Dynamics, Dambuster Studios, Eidos-Montréal, Flying Wild Hog Studios, Tripwire, Vertigo Games, Warhorse Studios, and 4A Games among many others.
Embracer-owned businesses such as Metro publisher Plaion, Dark Horse Comics, Freemode will also be part of this entity.
In addition to The Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider, Middle-Earth Enterprises & Friends will be responsible for Dead Island, Killing Floor, Kingdom Come Deliverance, and Metro, among others.
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Personally I can't say I'm surprised since the Saudi's really did a number on Embracer, and that their games haven't been selling like gangbusters either. Alone in the Dark and Saints Row particularly being an outlier on how the publishers under Embracer have failed to bring back these games in a matter that matches expectations from the rest of the industry. Personally I'm looking forward to see what Coffee Stain can come up with in since I think Middle Earth is bloated as is. Regardless I would like to hear what you faggots think of this.
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