Embracer Group Splits Into Three Different Companies

Embracer Group, the holding company that resurrected THQ and began an acquisition spree in the last few years, have announced that it will be split into three different companies.

These companies are the Asmodee Group (focusing on tabletop and board games), Coffee Stain & Friends (focusing on indie-style, “A/AA” games) and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends (focusing on AAA games and the rights to Lord Of The Rings).

The breakdown of game publishing labels, game developers and IPs that have been split into Coffee Stain & Friends and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends are not fully known, but the press release of the announcement did reveal some which are as follows:

Coffee Stain & Friends

• Companies
  • Premium games
    • Coffee Stain
    • Ghost Ship Games
    • Tarsier Games
    • Tuxedo Labs
    • THQ Nordic
    • Amplifier Game Invest
  • Free-to-Play games
    • Easybrain
    • Deca
    • CrazyLabs
    • Cryptic
• IPs
  • Premium games
    • Deep Rock Galactic
    • Goat Simulator
    • Satisfactory
    • Wreckfest
    • Teardown
    • Valheim (partly owned together with Iron Gate)
    • “as well as more than 200 other IPs”
  • Free-to-play games
    • Sudoku.com
    • Blockudoku
    • Jigsaw Puzzle
    • Star Trek Online
    • D&D Neverwinter Online
    • “many other IPs”

Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends

• Companies
  • Crystal Dynamics
  • Dambuster Studios
  • Eidos-Montréal
  • Flying Wild Hog Studios
  • Tripwire
  • Vertigo Games
  • Warhorse Studios
  • 4A Games
  • PLAION
  • Freemode
  • Dark Horse
  • “among others”
• IPs
  • Dead Island
  • Killing Floor
  • Kingdom Come Deliverance
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • Metro
  • Tomb Raider
  • “among many others”

Embracer Group previously operated under many different “operative groups”. As far as video game development goes, whatever is left under the Embracer Group has now been merged and split into two different companies.

Embracer Group itself will remain under Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends. Embracer Group will also be renamed.

The largest shareholder of Embracer Group, Lars Wingefors AB, remains committed of supporting all three entities.

Embracer Group previously have let of Saber Interactive and Gearbox Entertainment, two big “operative groups” which acts as both publisher and developer.

With this move, Embracer is letting go of the tabletop and indie-style game business to focus on funding AAA games under Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends.

Source: Embracer Group