Hmmmmmm shares a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Japanese sport writer Sq. Enix confirmed that it was promoting all three of its Western online game studios, together with many important sport sequence and mental property connected to these studios, to the European sport writer Embracer. The sale consists of sport studios Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and Sq. Enix Montreal. All three had beforehand been wholly owned by Sq. Enix, and Embracer will purchase their whole staffs, mixed at roughly 1,100 folks, together with standard IP akin to Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and Legacy of Kain, and a game-publishing catalog of “over 50 video games,” for $300 million.
Not the entire deal’s IP has been confirmed up to now, nonetheless, and an announcement from Sq. Enix signifies that its Western operations “will proceed to publish franchises akin to Simply Trigger, Outriders, and Life Is Unusual.” This means that Sq. Enix will retain a few of its Western-specific IP and that its future collaborations with Western sport makers will come by way of publishing offers with exterior builders. The report notes that Embracer “will doubtless additionally declare the rights to Tomb Raider’s legacy as a Hollywood movie sequence.”
In addition they confirmed that “improvement has already begun on ‘the subsequent mainline Tomb Raider sport,’ full with ‘next-generation storytelling and gameplay experiences,’ whereas a number of different ‘AAA’ initiatives had been teased as being in improvement by the mixed studios.” Moreover, Eidos Montreal confirmed that its subsequent main sport could be set on this planet of Deus Ex.
