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Why A Space Marine 2 Exec's YouTube Comment Became A Lightning Rod
18.9.2024
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, made by Saber Interactive, is the sequel to a beloved 2011 shooter and has been praised for, among other things, feeling like an old-school Xbox 360-era game. But some have marshaled that classic mystique into a rebuke of modern games that don’t conform to certain...
All-Time Classic TimeSplitters Looking Likely For PS4, PS5
19.6.2024
If you wanna know what games are coming up next on PlayStation, you just need to ask the Taiwanese ratings board. That’s Gemastu’s brilliant trick, that allowed the site to correctly predict the arrival of Octopath Traveler last week, and now suggests subscribers to PlayStation Plus are about...
Final Fantasy Maker Promises 'Quality Over Quantity' And Fewer Exclusives In Major Strategy Reboot
13.5.2024
Square Enix has announced that it will be moving away from releasing games exclusively to select platforms, opting instead to pursue multiplatform launches in the near-future to amplify the sales of its flagging games. It’s all part of “aggressively pursuing” a new business strategy after a...
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...
Herní gigant Embracer se rozděluje na tři části. Čeští Warhorse budou sousedit s Pánem prstenů
22.4.2024
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...
Painful Cuts At PlayStation, A Big Pokémon Reveal, And More Of The Week's Top News
2.3.2024
This week was marked by more inescapable upheaval on the gaming landscape, as PlayStation announced massive cuts across its studios and canceled some games in development. But there was some lighthearted fun to be had as well, with Hideo Kojima sharing his amusing reaction to Oscar Isaac’s...
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...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Devs Finally Got To Talk On Stage, And They Did Not Hold Back
16.2.2024
One of the biggest complaints about last year’s Game Awards was that the show did not let winners talk. Even when folks from Larian Studios got on the stage to accept the Game of the Year award for Baldur’s Gate 3, they were told to “wrap it up” and weren’t even able to make the announcement that...
Embracer Cancelled Nearly 30 Unannounced Games In Just 6 Months
15.2.2024
Embracer Group, the proverbial grim reaper of video game acquisitions, has been wreaking havoc on the studios and IP it has acquired in the past few years. From layoffs across several companies to shutting down of beloved studios like Saints Row developer Volition, and cancellations of...
Deus Ex Owners To Adam Jensen Actor: Stop Talking About The Character
13.2.2024
Actor Elias Toufexis is probably most famous for his role as the gravelly-voiced cyborg Adam Jensen, the protagonist in Eidos Montreal’s Deux Ex prequel games. He loves to talk about the character and his possible future, but according to Toufexis, the studio that owns the franchise would rather...
Značka Deus Ex se jen tak nevrátí, práce na novém dílu po dvou letech končí
30.1.2024
Vlna propouštění napříč herním průmyslem zasáhla i vydavatelství Embracer. Podle novináře Jasona Schreiera z Bloombergu nejenže přišlo o práci téměř sto lidí, ale navíc byl zrušen i vývoj dosud ještě ani oficiálně neoznámeného nového dílu kultovní série Deus Ex
New Deus Ex Game Reportedly Canceled By *That* Gaming Company
29.1.2024
Embattled gaming company Embracer Group has cancelled an in-development Deus Ex game that Eidos Montreal was working on, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The untitled and unannounced RPG was reportedly in pre-production for two years and was set to “enter production later this year,”...
Grab This Excellent Marvel Game For Free On Epic Games Store
4.1.2024
In October 2021, developer Eidos-Montréal, the team behind the basically-dead live-service title Marvel’s Avengers, launched Guardians of the Galaxy. The single-player, third-person shooter was excellent, offering great combat, likable characters, solid puzzles, and gorgeous environments....
Kotaku’s Opinions For The Week November 18, 2023
18.11.2023
Gamers are a passionate bunch, and we’re no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of video game news.Read more
This Is What It Looks Like When A Massive Video Game Publisher Messes Up
16.11.2023
This is Lars Wingefors, the CEO of Embracer, a Swedish holding company that owns multiple video game publishers, dozens of studios, and employs over 16,500 people. Or at least it used to. Embracer has been laying off hundreds, canceling projects, and closing studios as it reckons with deals that...