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Embracer Group divests Gearbox Entertainment for a consideration of USD 460 million to Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. - Embracer Group

INSIDE INFORMATION: Embracer Group has today entered into an agreement to divest Gearbox Entertainment, for a consideration of USD 460 million (SEK 4.9 billion) to Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“Take-Two”). The proceeds from the deal will, upon closing, significantly reduce net debt...

embracer.com

 

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More Borderlands incoming!

 

[TheBomb]

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Battleborn 2 please

 

[Kilau]

More Borderlands incoming!

 

[bitbydeath]

Hand Duke over to RockStar!

 

[//DEVIL//]

Probably the only one on planet earth. But I don't like their games. . Still better than sinking with that shit embracer shit company

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

Now buy Eidos so I can have Deus Ex Duke.

 

[OceanGaming]

Very good, I don't want R*ndy and G**rb*x anywhere near THQ.

 

[adamsapple]

Embracer bought Gearbox for $1.3 billion and sold it off for almost around 1/3rd of that price.

Shades of Yahoo and Google back in the day.

 

[VolticArchangel]

T2 should have waited for like a year more and reevaluated under 200 million, it could have been a very practical scenario, unless others like Microsoft and EA were eagle eye'ing Gearbox.

 

[THE DUCK]

Embracer on a roll. Maybe with gearbox on board take two can go from one game every 7 years to one every 5 years.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I don’t hate this.

 

[Dane]

T2 should have waited for like a year more and reevaluated under 200 million, it could have been a very practical scenario, unless others like Microsoft and EA were eagle eye'ing Gearbox.

Gearbox itself was a pretty big independent company, they would have made a management buyout.

 

[havoc00]

Hand Duke over to RockStar!

BLOW IT OUT UR ASS

 

[Sleepwalker]

Probably the only one on planet earth. But I don't like their games. . Still better than sinking with that shit embracer shit company

Abdolutely not. Borderlands games are trash.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

More of anything coming should be taking into question... especially on this site.

 

[Paltheos]

All I care about is if Risk of Rain is ok. It's apparently in Take Two's hands now (if indirectly). Please let Gearbox continue developing RoR2.

 

[DaciaJC]

Does this mean we might finally get another Brothers in Arms? Been waiting like 80 friggin years to see Baker's and Corrion's stories finished.

 

[YCoCg]

Back to 2K with you Randy!

 

[hybrid_birth]

Boredomlands 4 : The Death of Yaktrap.

 

[EDMIX]

Embracer Group divests Gearbox Entertainment for a consideration of USD 460 million to Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. - Embracer Group

INSIDE INFORMATION: Embracer Group has today entered into an agreement to divest Gearbox Entertainment, for a consideration of USD 460 million (SEK 4.9 billion) to Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“Take-Two”). The proceeds from the deal will, upon closing, significantly reduce net debt...

embracer.com

As it fucking should be.

Such a talented team, needs a solid publisher.

 

[GHG]

Does this mean we might finally get another Brothers in Arms? Been waiting like 80 friggin years to see Baker's and Corrion's stories finished.

It's like people have learnt nothing from all these acquisitions in recent years.

These things don't happen for dormant IP to be revived, that's just a naive pipe-dream.

 

[Fabieter]

Where is all the thq nordic hate coming from. I dont get it?

 

[Black_Stride]

Now Embracer only needs to sell err I mean divest Crystal and Eidos to Microsoft.
Before the haters hate. Crystal having moved to Unreal Engine and already working on Perfect Dark....them now getting to collaborate with The Coalition on whatever is next is a net positive.
Eidos just needs money and someone to let them do their thing.
MS being all but third party at this point also means the games will likely also hit PS5 sooner rather than later.

 

[Fabieter]

It's like people have learnt nothing from all these acquisitions in recent years.

These things don't happen for dormant IP to be revived, that's just a naive pipe-dream.

It was actually the case with thq Nordic buying all those devs. They worked on so many games no one would finance in this day and age and are now somehow hated.

 

[VolticArchangel]

Sell the Duke Nukem IP to either Saber (who have retained 3D Realms and are now independant) or to Bethesda/MS who have iD Software, Embracer you fucking apes.

 

[IAmRei]

Is it too cheap? 460M is like budget for some AAA games. And yet T2 got lot of Borderlands games and also 3 /4 homeworld games.

 

[SJRB]

Man who cares about Gearbox at this point, seriously.

Randy is a clown and their output has been mid as hell.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Seems like a worthless purchase, can’t believe they sold for 400M let alone 1.3B

 

[lh032]

next gen duke nukem with nudity.

I want to see the meltdown

 

[nial]

I don't care about Gearbox or their games, at all, but I wouldn't wish for any studio in the world to be under Embracer Group.

 

[bitbydeath]

BLOW IT OUT UR ASS

YOU’RE AN INSPIRATION FOR BIRTH CONTROL.

 

[Pejo]

Can't nobody hold Randy for more than a few years. He's like one of those liquid filled water wiggler things.

 

[havoc00]

Can't nobody hold Randy for more than a few years. He's like one of those liquid filled water wiggler things.

He’s such a jerk off lmao

 

[Ribi]

Waste of money

 

[TheKratos]

For some reason I thought Gearbox = Gears dev and got confused why MS would sell them for pennies.

 

[Represent.]

waste

 

[Snake29]

Now Embracer only needs to sell err I mean divest Crystal and Eidos to Microsoft.
Before the haters hate. Crystal having moved to Unreal Engine and already working on Perfect Dark....them now getting to collaborate with The Coalition on whatever is next is a net positive.
Eidos just needs money and someone to let them do their thing.
MS being all but third party at this point also means the games will likely also hit PS5 sooner rather than later.

That PD game is going to flop or it is canned.

 

[hlm666]

Can't nobody hold Randy for more than a few years. He's like one of those liquid filled water wiggler things.

Seeing the gif before reading your sentence I just thought it was some masturbation thing, which is more appropriate for him lol.

 

[Team Andromeda]

A great buy and fit IMO

 

[VolticArchangel]

Is it too cheap? 460M is like budget for some AAA games. And yet T2 got lot of Borderlands games and also 3 /4 homeworld games.

Insomniac was bought by Sony for $220 million...

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Can't nobody hold Randy for more than a few years. He's like one of those liquid filled water wiggler things.

Fixed

 

[StueyDuck]

I mean if anything it makes the most sense considering 2k...

But yeah. Why anyone would've touched these guys after the last 3 BL games they've released were hot shit and the only good thing going for them right now is an indie rogulike ip risk of rain is kind of baffling.

They seem like a waste of money, maybe they are expecting big things from the BL movie

 

[bender]

Who retains ownership of Randy's magical thumb drive?

 

[Hudo]

As long as Homeworld is safe...

 

[IAmRei]

Insomniac was bought by Sony for $220 million...

.... Dang...

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Who retains ownership of Randy's magical thumb drive?

 

[Duchess]

Honestly thought they'd pay more :|

 

[Silver Wattle]

With the tech industry in decline, this is a great time for wealthier studios to buy up good studios.