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Embracer Group is a Swedish video game holding company controlled by Lars Wingefors. In 2016, the company was spun out of Nordic Games Group and in 2019 it was renamed Embracer Group.
As of 2024 they own more than 900 IP owned. Its subsidiaries are organized under ten groups: Amplifier Game Invest, Asmodee, CDE Entertainment, Coffee Stain Holding, Dark Horse Media, DECA Games, Embracer Freemode, Plaion and THQ Nordic. Each group has its own operations, subsidiaries and development studios.
IP
editFormer IP
edit| IP | Acquired Company | Acquired From | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snipers vs. Thieves | Foxglove Studios | Foxglove Studios | [105] |
| Puzzle Pests | |||
| The Muscle Hustle | |||
| THE SIGNAL | Goose Byte | Goose Byte | [106] |
| BATALJ | Fragbite Group | Fall Damage | [107] |
| ALARA Prime | |||
| Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream | Nordcurrent | River End Games | [108] |
| MudRunner | Beacon Interactive | Saber Interactive | [109] |
| SnowRunner | |||
| SlotoTerra | |||
| I, Viking | |||
| Demon Dungeons: Inferno Abyss | |||
| Basketball Playgrounds | |||
| Wild Card Football | |||
| Toxic Commando | |||
| RoadCraft | |||
| Blighter | |||
| Rails of Fury: Train Defence | |||
| Balls of Steel | 3D Realms | ||
| Bombshell | |||
| Graveball | |||
| ZIQ | |||
| Ion Fury | |||
| Cultic | |||
| The Kindeman Remedy | |||
| Graven | |||
| Wrath | |||
| Phantom Fury | |||
| Ripout | |||
| Bloodless | |||
| Core Decay | |||
| Combustion | |||
| Tempest Rising | |||
| Adam Wolfe | Mad Head Games | ||
| Rocking Pilot | |||
| Pagan: Absent Gods | |||
| Tap Temple | |||
| Rite of Passage | |||
| Nevertales | |||
| 100 Doors | |||
| Pocket Settlers | |||
| Wanderlust | |||
| Shadowplay Harrowstead Mystery | |||
| Moonsouls | |||
| Cadenza | |||
| Donna Brave | |||
| Achieve - Discover New Earth! | |||
| Insurgency | New World Interactive | ||
| Day of Infamy | |||
| Bunch of Heroes | Nimble Giant Entertainment | ||
| Realms Online | |||
| Champions of Regnum | |||
| Quantum League | |||
| Hellbound | |||
| Santa Quest | SmartPhone Labs | ||
| The Keeper of 4 Elements | |||
| Battalion Commander | |||
| Rise of the Triad | Slipgate Ironworks | ||
| Warpaws | |||
| Brothers in Arms | Take-Two Interactive | Gearbox Entertainment | [110] |
| Borderlands | |||
| Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | |||
| Risk of Rain | |||
| Homeworld | |||
| Combat Champions | C77 Entertainment | C77 Entertainment | |
| Delta Force | Tencent | THQ Nordic | [111] |
| Easy Words | Easybrain | ||
| Drum Pad Machine | |||
| Pixel Art | |||
| Jigsaw Puzzles | |||
| Nonogram | |||
| Differences | |||
| Solitaire | |||
| Blockudoku | |||
| Groovepad | |||
| Word Search | |||
| Easy Game | |||
| Art Puzzle | |||
| Number Match | |||
| Backgammon | |||
| Logic Puzzles | |||
| Number Sums | |||
| Crossword Master | |||
| Spider Solitaire |
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