2022 has been a huge year for acquisitions in the video game industry, perhaps the biggest ever. Embracer has been a huge part of that. Earlier this year, it announced its plans to buy a number of stu🍷dios from under t💃he Square Enix umbrella, and now that deal is complete.
Embracer Group revealed the news that its acquisition of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and Square Enix Mont💎real is now complete via on Friday (thanks, ). “All condꦰitions for the transaction, including regulatory approvals, have now been fulfilled and the transaction may be completed,” the press release reads. “Embracer has, therefore, today completed the acquisition.”
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The Embracer deal came as quite a surprise to a lot of people. Not only because 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Square Enix was willing to let go of so many notable studios and IPs, but also because it was willing to do it for so little. Just $300 million. That sounds like a lot, because it is, but not when compared to some of the other acquisitions in video games lately. The Activision one mentioned above, $7.5 billion for Bethesda, and the $3.6 billion 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation paid for Bungie.
Embracer will keep the acquisitions coming, recently forking out for the rig♐hts to the 🉐Lord of the Rings. That might well exaplin why all references to it in MultiVersus' files have disappeared. There are also conflicting reports regarding 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a potential EA acquisition by Amazon. Rumors that multiple big companies have been attempting to pin down the pub🅺lisher have been circulating for a while.