List of mergers and acquisitions by Embracer Group

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This article is about the company's corporate mergers and acquisitions. For its acquisitions of intellectual properties, see List of acquisitions by THQ Nordic.

Embracer Group is a Swedish video game holding company controlled by Lars Wingefors. As of 2021 they own more than 76 internal studios in over 45 countries in Europe and the Americas. Its subsidiaries are organized under eight groups: Amplifier Game Invest, Coffee Stain Holding, DECA Games, Easybrain, Gearbox Entertainment, Koch Media, Saber Interactive and THQ Nordic. Each group has its own operations, subsidiaries and development studios.

Acquisitions[]

Date Company Country Parent company Value Reference
August 2017 Black Forest Games  Germany THQ Nordic [1]
Pieces Interactive  Sweden $350,000 [2]
November 2017 Experiment 101 [3]
February 2018 Koch Media  Austria/ Germany Koch Media $149,000,000 [4]
July 2018 HandyGames  Germany THQ Nordic [5]
November 2018 Coffee Stain Holding  Sweden Coffee Stain Holding $34,900,000 [6]
Bugbear Entertainment (90%)  Finland THQ Nordic
February 2019 18Point2  Australia Koch Media €1,900,000 [7]
Warhorse Studios  Czech Republic €42,800,000 [8]
May 2019 Piranha Bytes  Germany THQ Nordic [9]
August 2019 KSM Koch Media [10]
Gaya Entertainment [11]
Milestone  Italy €44,900,000 [12][13]
Gunfire Games  United States THQ Nordic [14]
Goodbye Kansas Game Invest
  • Fall Damage (50%)
  • Framebunker (21%)
  • Kavalri (21%)
  • Neon Giant (24%)
  • Palindrome Interactive (50%)
  Sweden Amplifier Game Invest $3,950,000 [15]
December 2019 Tarsier Studios  Sweden $10,500,000 [16]
February 2020 Saber Interactive
  • Saber Belarus
  • Saber Porto
  • Saber Russia
  • Saber Spain
  • Saber Sweden
  United States Saber Interactive $525,000,000 [17]
Voxler  France Koch Media €1,900,000 [18]
May 2020 DestinyBit  Italy Amplifier Game Invest [19]
August 2020 4A Games  Malta/ Ukraine Saber Interactive $45,000,000 [20]
New World Interactive  United States
Rare Earth Games  Austria Amplifier Game Invest €3,300,000
Vermilia Studios  Spain €2,900,000
Palindrome Interactive (remaining 50%)  Sweden
Pow Wow Entertainment  Austria THQ Nordic
DECA Games  Germany DECA Games €25,000,000
Sola Media Koch Media $2,700,000
September 2020 Vertigo Games  Netherlands €50,000,000 [21]
November 2020 Flying Wild Hog  Poland $137,000,000 [22]
Purple Lamp Studios  Austria THQ Nordic
Zen Studios  Hungary Saber Interactive
Snapshot Games  Bulgaria
Nimble Giant Entertainment  Argentina
34BigThings  Italy
Mad Head Games  Serbia
Sandbox Strategies  United States
A Thinking Ape Entertainment  Canada DECA Games $31,000,000
IUGO Mobile Entertainment
Coffee Stain North (remaining 40%)  Sweden Coffee Stain Holding
Silent Games  United Kingdom Amplifier Game Invest
Quantic Lab (95%)  Romania €4,500,000
February 2021 Gearbox Software
  • Gearbox Studio Québec
  United States Gearbox Software $1,300,000,000 [23]
Easybrain  Cyprus/ Belarus Easybrain $640,000,000 [24]
Aspyr  United States Saber Interactive $450,000,000 [25]
May 2021 Kaiko  Germany THQ Nordic [26]
Massive Miniteam
Appeal  Belgium
Frame Break  Sweden Amplifier Game Invest
August 2021 3D Realms  Denmark/ United States Saber Interactive [27]
Slipgate Ironworks  Denmark
CrazyLabs  Israel DECA Games
DigixArt  France Koch Media
Force Field  Netherlands
Ghost Ship Games (remaining 65%)  Denmark Coffee Stain Holding
Easy Trigger  Sweden
Grimfrost (70%) THQ Nordic
Demiurge Studios  United States Saber Interactive [28]
Fractured Byte  Estonia
SmartPhone Labs  Russia
September 2021 Bytex [29]
October 2021 Jufeng Studio  China DECA Games [30]
December 2021 Asmodee
  • Atomic Mass Games
  • Bezzerwizzer Studio
  • Catan Studio
  • Days of Wonder
  • Edge Entertainment
  • Fantasy Flight Games
  • Gamegenic
  • The Green Board Game Company
  • Libellud
  • Lookout Games
  • Mixlore
  • Pearl Games
  • Plan B Games
  • Purple Brain
  • Rebel Studio
  • Repos Production
  • Space Cow
  • Space Cowboys
  • Unexpected Games
  • Z-Man Games
  • Zygomatic
  France Asmodee €2,750,000,000 [31]
Green Tile Digital  Sweden Amplifier Game Invest [32]
Perfect World Entertainment  China Gearbox Software $125,000,000 [33]
Spotfilm Networkx  Germany Koch Media [34]
Shiver Entertainment  United States Saber Interactive [35]
Digic Holdings  Hungary [36]
Dark Horse Media  United States Dark Horse Media [37]

Notes[]

References[]

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  12. ^ Blake, Vikki (14 August 2019). "Koch Media to acquire Milestone and all IPs, including MotoGP and Supercross". MCV. Archived from the original on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
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  21. ^ "Embracer Group acquires Vertigo Games". Gematsu. September 15, 2020. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
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  29. ^ "Embracer Group snaps up QA studio Bytex known for working on games like SnowRunner and World War Z". 22 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  30. ^ "Embracer Group acquires mobile game developer Jufeng Studio and eight mobile titles".
  31. ^ "Embracer purchases Asmodee for €2.75bn".
  32. ^ "AMPLIFIER ACQUIRES SWEDISH STUDIO GREEN TILE DIGITAL".
  33. ^ "EMBRACER GROUP ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE PERFECT WORLD ENTERTAINMENT".
  34. ^ "EMBRACER GROUP ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT TO AQUIRE SPOTFILM NETWORX".
  35. ^ "EMBRACER GROUP ACQUIRES SHIVER ENTERTAINMENT".
  36. ^ "EMBRACER GROUP ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE DIGIC".
  37. ^ "EMBRACER GROUP ENTERS INTO AN AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE DARK HORSE AND FORMS THE TENTH OPERATIVE GROUP".

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