Embracer Group is continuing to reap the benefits of its ever-growing empire. In their recent financial report, the company revealed they have 160 games in development, and 90 of those will be released before the end of the current fiscal year. They’re also in talks to acquire yet more development studios.
By the end of March 2021, the company had 160 games in progress and these figures now include projects from Gearbox and Aspyr Media too. We know from their last financial report that more than 70 of the games are classed as premium titles. More than 2/3 of them will also be either brand new IPs or revitalized IPs. Embracer defines the latter as a new game in an IP that hasn’t seen any new content created for at least five years. They confirmed one of these dormant IPs is TimeSplitters; a new game is due to start development at the newly created Free Radical Design studio. Of those 160 titles, 90 will be released before the end of March 2022 and they are expected to raise SEK 2.8-3.3 billion ($337-397 million) in value between them. The majority will be released during the latter part of the financial year, during the first three months of 2022. On the other hand, Biomutant will be released in just five days’ time and the game’s preorders are exceeding the company’s expectations so far. Deep Silver has titles like Saints Row: The Third Remastered heading to PS5, Chivalry 2, and Dead Island 2 in development. Saber Interactive has Evil Dead: Th...