Embracer Promises 76 Games and Name Change [May 22, 2025, 11:59 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Interim Financial Report from Embracer Group has adjusted reporting for Q1 of this year from Embracer Group as the company continues to try to recover from its overexpansion spree. But it's not all contraction, as the look ahead says Embracer plans to release no fewer than 76 games by the end of Fiscal 2026: "As of today, we expect to release 76 different games during FY 2025/26 that we have invested in, with a mix of new IPs, sequels, and remasters. We have a solid slate of exciting new releases in FY 2025/26, including Metal Eden, Gothic 1 Remake, REANIMAL, Fellowship, Wreckreation, the next SpongeBob SquarePants game, NORSE: Oath of Blood, Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core alongside a handful titles yet to be announced." There's also word of the company will spin off Coffee Stain by the end of this year and an abandonment of the (arguably now tainted) Embracer name:
By the end of 2025, we plan to spin off Coffee Stain Group (previous working name “Coffee Stain & Friends”), distributing its shares to Embracer’s shareholders and listing it on the Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market in Stockholm. This strategic move will allow Coffee Stain Group to focus on its core strengths as passionate game developers and publishers, focused on delivering high quality experiences. Embracer will at the time of separation of Coffee Stain Group be renamed Fellowship Entertainment (previous working name “Middle Earth & Friends”). Fellowship Entertainment will be uniting top creators and intellectual properties, fostering creativity to build unforgettable experiences for the fans. The strategy is to transform into one powerhouse group with game development and publishing at its core, complemented with transmedia capabilities within IP licensing, comics, merchandise, film and distribution.
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Re: Embracer Promises 76 Games and Name Change
May 23, 2025, 12:48
May 23, 2025, 12:48
Feel only disgust for Embracer for closing Piranha Bytes, and stopping "Elex 3" development, and any chance of a new Gothic by them.
But hope they are successful because of all those developers depending on Embracer.
But hope they are successful because of all those developers depending on Embracer.
Re: Embracer Promises 76 Games and Name Change
May 23, 2025, 08:54
May 23, 2025, 08:54
jacobvandy wrote on May 23, 2025, 00:34:So...shovelware?Xeth Nyrrow wrote on May 22, 2025, 16:24:
76 titles in a year sounds like they are switching over to producing only shovelware which is one of my predictions for large game companies to start doing in an attempt to lower costs even more.
They own 75 studios with a total of 7500 employees -- only a small subset of those need to release two titles by March of next year to make up for the bigger studios (such as the one that buoyed their last quarter with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2) not releasing anything, and they'll easily achieve that number. Probably from the mobile games segment, which is about a quarter of their business according to these figures. Although remasters of older games from any of the bazillion IPs they still have the rights to would also be relatively easy to churn out.
Having almost all of your studios crank out 1 game per year (or more) sounds like the equivalent of developer diarrhea. They are not interested in producing quality work, just volume to hit numbers though I expected nothing less from them.
Bailout 76
Re: Embracer Promises 76 Games and Name Change
May 23, 2025, 00:34
May 23, 2025, 00:34
Xeth Nyrrow wrote on May 22, 2025, 16:24:
76 titles in a year sounds like they are switching over to producing only shovelware which is one of my predictions for large game companies to start doing in an attempt to lower costs even more.
They own 75 studios with a total of 7500 employees -- only a small subset of those need to release two titles by March of next year to make up for the bigger studios (such as the one that buoyed their last quarter with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2) not releasing anything, and they'll easily achieve that number. Probably from the mobile games segment, which is about a quarter of their business according to these figures. Although remasters of older games from any of the bazillion IPs they still have the rights to would also be relatively easy to churn out.
To each his own. If there ever was a more perfect symbol of the greed and incompetence in business suits laying waste to an artistic medium than Embracer Group I haven't seen it.
"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
Honestly, I'll take some gargantuan clusterfuck like Embracer every day of the week over corporations that micromanage every studio and try to turn every title that ships into a Live Service title with an $80 buy in.
Embracer hired too many people and bought up too many studios. That was their controversy. Not predatory pricing, not abysmal working conditions at their studios, not publisher executives coming in and telling developers to rework half their game. All of these, to me, are much greater evils than overexpansion.
Embracer hired too many people and bought up too many studios. That was their controversy. Not predatory pricing, not abysmal working conditions at their studios, not publisher executives coming in and telling developers to rework half their game. All of these, to me, are much greater evils than overexpansion.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
WitcherOntheProwl wrote on May 22, 2025, 18:42:Agreed. I think the only game conglomerate company worse than them is NEXON but with them you at least you know you are getting scammed up front.
Embracer can burn in hell. They have caused enough destruction.
Embracer can burn in hell. They have caused enough destruction.
76?
Interstate '76.
Remake.
Now.
Interstate '76.
Remake.
Now.
Argonius the 3rd wrote on May 22, 2025, 16:43:
They should change it back to their old one : THQ Nordic
Nah. That would only create confusion again with their Vienna-based subsidiary THQ Nordic (which is why they renamed the holding to Embracer in the first place). If they go back to an old name then they should make it Nordic Games
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Re: Embracer Promises 76 Games and Name Change
May 22, 2025, 16:43
May 22, 2025, 16:43
They should change it back to their old one : THQ Nordic
Re: Embracer Promises 76 Games and Name Change
May 22, 2025, 16:24
May 22, 2025, 16:24
76 titles in a year sounds like they are switching over to producing only shovelware which is one of my predictions for large game companies to start doing in an attempt to lower costs even more.
they knew they stink their name.
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I'd rather keep the name and get rid of the insultingly awful Lars Wingefor and anyone who thinks that he belongs there. Game creation needs artists, not incompetent middleman flippers.
https://youtu.be/0UjAOUxiifE?si=5Pek_ulqzQgMb2bU
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https://youtu.be/0UjAOUxiifE?si=5Pek_ulqzQgMb2bU
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"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
A new name for Embracer? Hm... Strangler? Like "next step"? Fellowship sound kind of wrong for you IMO.
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