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Embracer CEO Is Full Of Excuses
24.4.2024
The past year or so has been a slow-moving trainwreck for Embracer Group, following the large company’s unprecedented studio acquisition spree. And, after announcing on April 22 that the company was planning to split itself up into three different companies, the CEO of Embracer is only filled with...
Embracer Decides To Split Up, Names New Companies Things Like 'Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends'
22.4.2024
After a year of carnage following its unprecedented studio acquisition spree, Embracer Group going back to basics and doing what it does best: confusingly re-naming and re-arranging its portfolio. The Swedish holding company is splitting itself into three new entities. The one in charge of the Lord...
Star Wars: KOTOR Remake Is Coming Along Just Fine, Says Saber CEO
3.4.2024
A lot can happen to games that get stuck in development limbo. They can get passed around like a hot potato, stopped and restarted several times, and even canceled. Saber Interactive’s Knights of the Old Republic remake has experienced many of these trials and tribulations, but has eluded the worst...
Embracer Sells Borderlands Maker Gearbox For Less Than Half Of What It Paid
28.3.2024
Another company has escaped the gaping, acquisition-hungry maw that is publisher Embracer Group, as Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has been sold to Take-Two Interactive. This lines up with Kotaku’s previous reporting on the matter in February, in which sources told us Gearbox was nearing...
Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection Devs Respond After Abysmal Launch
15.3.2024
The Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection launched on March 14, and it sounds like it’s a bit of a mess. As of this writing, the compilation has mostly “Overwhelmingly Negative” user reviews on Steam, with only 19 percent of over 4000 scores being positive. Fans are complaining of online server...
Star Wars: KOTOR Remake Developer Escapes Embracer’s Clutches
14.3.2024
Saber Interactive, the developer and publisher working on projects such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake, has officially been sold by Embracer Group. This comes in the wake of a Bloomberg report and updates to its website indicating a sale was imminent. The $500 million deal will...
Sources: Borderlands Studio Will Escape The Most Divisive Company In Gaming
29.2.2024
Embracer bought Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment for $1.2 billion back in early 2021 amid an unprecedented acquisition spree that’s since turned into a financial disaster. Now, just three years later, Kotaku has learned that Gearbox is closer than ever to being sold out from under what...
Why is Solana (SOL) price down today?
13.11.2023
Despite a 11.3% correction in just two days, SOL maintains a robust position with healthy derivatives markets and on-chain metrics
Sony Deletes Mentions Of Troubled Star Wars: KotOR PS5 Remake, Hides Trailer
29.9.2023
A teaser for a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake coming to PlayStation 5 nearly stole the show at Sony’s September 2021 showcase. But reports surfaced last year that the project was already in trouble. Now Star Wars fans have noticed that Sony recently deleted tweets about the game...
Fan Who Waited For Star Wars DLC Sues Over Broken Promises
26.9.2023
A new gamer lawsuit rises. Three months after Aspyr said it was abandoning promised DLC for the remaster of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords on Nintendo Switch, someone is suing the publisher for failing to make good on its original promise or to offer a refund when that was no longer...
Borderlands Dev Gearbox Might Be Getting Sold Off Soon
11.9.2023
Gearbox Software, the studio most well-known for the Borderlands franchise, is reportedly up for sale as parent company Embracer Group considers options to “shore up its finances,” according to a September 11 Reuters report.Read more
Sounds Like The KOTOR Remake Is In Even Bigger Trouble
23.8.2022
The last we heard of the attempt to remake Bioware’s classic Star Wars RPG Knights Of The Old Republic, two of the game’s lead developers had been fired and a game originally hoping for a 2022 release was now looking at 2025. A fresh report now paints an even bleaker picture.Read more
Developers Admit There's No Way To Complete KOTOR II On Switch
20.6.2022
Er, whoops. Aspyr, the developer/porter behind the recent release of Knights Of The Old Republic II on Nintendo Switch, has tweeted that it’s aware the game is currently impossible to finish.Read more
Witcher 3 Next-Gen Upgrade Pulled From Russia Studio, Delayed Indefinitely
13.4.2022
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S upgrade for The Witcher 3 won’t arrive anytime soon. In fact, CD Projekt Red announced today that it’s delayed indefinitely. That follows the decision to bring development on the next-gen version back in house after it was handled by Saber Interactive’s Russia...
Non-Custodial Dex Platforms Continue to Expand — Curve, Pancakeswap, Sushiswap, Uniswap Lead the Pack
26.10.2021
Five years ago, there was a large quantity of digital currencies and blockchains, but there were very few trading platforms that dealt with decentralized exchange. Since the boom of decentralized finance (defi), there’s now a myriad of decentralized exchange (dex) platforms that allow people...
Solana reclaims $200 — 3 reasons why SOL price is up 35% in seven days
25.10.2021
SOL price continues to climb with Solana's TVL also hitting a new high of nearly $14 billion
Why now? SEC took eight years to authorize a Bitcoin ETF in the US
25.10.2021
The SEC has been holding steady for years, but the real-world dynamics of crypto adoption and maturation rendered an ETF approval all but inevitable
Total Value Locked in Defi Surpasses $200 Billion — Fantom, Avalanche, Harmony, Arbitrum TVLs Swell
12.10.2021
Decentralized finance (defi) has swelled quite a bit this year and on October 5, the total value locked (TVL) in defi protocols crossed the $200 billion mark. Since January 1, the defi TVL across various blockchains has risen almost 855% from $21.4 billion to today’s $204 billion. Total...
Total Value Locked Across Multiple Defi Chains Nears $200 Billion — Ethereum’s TVL Dominance 69%
5.10.2021
While the crypto economy has seen a decent uptick in performance during the first week of October, a number of decentralized finance (defi) tokens have seen tremendous gains. Furthermore, the total value locked in defi has risen to $195 billion, jumping more than 14% over the last two weeks from...
Thank You Melty Blood For Adding Fate/Stay Night’s Saber, My Sword Wife
30.9.2021
I didn’t pay much attention to the anime fighting game Melty Blood: Type Lumina until just yesterday, when the developers made the official announcement that Saber, Fate/Stay Night protagonist and the “King of Knights” herself, would be joining the new game’s roster. After seeing her video gameplay...