The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum is, perhaps unsurprisingly, supposedly going to be split into two films, according to Ian McKellen.
]]>The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum is slowly making progress, and one step it hopes to put forward is by bringing Ian McKellen aboard.
]]>No, you haven't dreamed it. A Gollum-centric Lord of the Rings spinoff movie is coming in 2026, and actor-director Andy Serkis is already teasing some of what's on the horizon for the project.
]]>Hello there. Another games studio has left the warm, er, embrace of the nice little friendship thing Embracer Group recently morphed into, and it's via an acquisition by Nintendo this time. The studio is Shiver Entertainment, and if you've ever played Mortal Kombat 1 on Switch, you've enjoyed a bit of their work.
]]>Despite Embracer's repeated warnings, the world was shocked when last week a new Lord of the Rings movie was confirmed. Moreover, it was revealed that the new big-screen project is titled The Hunt for Gollum, and everyone started questioning who asked for this. Well, now we know that the pitch came from the filmmakers behind the six previous New Line-produced movies, actually.
]]>Hey, remember when Embracer gobbled up Middle-earth Enterprises and the rights to both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit across all forms of media? Well, a new movie is now in active development as promised, and it's about... Gollum.
]]>Embracer Group is no more, as the company has made the decision to split into three separate entities, with various developers divided up amongst them.
]]>UPDATE (13/09/24, 1:10 PM BST): Embracer Group has now confirmed in a press release that 4A Games and Zen Studios will be sticking with it, with their potential sales to Saber Interactive as part of the $247 million deal announced earlier this year that's seen the latter be sold to Beacon Interactive from the former having been cancelled.
]]>Saber Interactive will soon be free of Embracer Group thanks to a private investor group coughing up $500 million for the outfit. There is also a new report stating the mega company has a buyer lined up for Gearbox Software.
]]>Embracer Group has issued another round of layoffs across its studios, and this time, redundancies have hit 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks.
]]>The bright lights are up, and the red carpet has been rolled out. We’ve all put on our best jeans, logo t-shirt, and blazer combo (our mums say we look lovely) – it’s time for The Game Awards. Not those ones, though. We mean the VG247 Alternate Game Awards.
]]>New World Interactive, one of the most beloved independent FPS developers to come out of the modding scene, has been hit with a major round of layoffs. The studio's parent company, Embracer Group, is responsible, as it continues to struggle with debt.
]]>A report suggests that Free Radical Design's parent company, Embracer Group, may shut down the studio as part of the company's restructuring process.
]]>Sony has removed all tweets pertaining to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake from its X account.
]]>Volition, the developers of Red Faction and Saints Row, has been shuttered after 30 years by its parent company, Embracer Group, as part of companywide restructuring.
]]>Switch users who own Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 – The Sith Lords will be interested to know that the promised DLC, Restored Content, will not be released.
]]>Lord of the Rings fans either have plenty to look forward to or despair over in the coming months. It just depends on which end of Bilbo's hill you stand on.
]]>Iron Gate's early access darling Valheim is coming to Xbox systems on March 14.
]]>Amazon may be the new IP holder for the Tomb Raider franchise, if a report on the matter is accurate.
]]>Legacy of Kain could see some kind of return, as a recent survey from Crystal Dynamics is asking fans about the series.
]]>Control of the Tomb Raider and Deus Ex IPs has now officially transferred to Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics following their surprisingly cheap sale from Square Enix to Embracer Group. Alex and Jim wonder what this means for the future in the video below.
]]>It’s been over 20 years since we first set off from The Shire with Frodo and Sam on their quest to destroy the Ring of Power, and despite a series of lacklustre Hobbit films doing their best to extinguish it, the passion still burns hot as the fires of Mount Doom for that quintessential trilogy of fantasy epics. In the times before and since those releases, with the exception of Tolkien’s other literary works, fans have relied heavily on video game interpretations to continue their direct relationship with the characters, settings, and stories of Middle-earth and the One Ring.
]]>New Tales from the Borderlands is set to be released October 21, according to a listing on Amazon.
]]>Embracer Group, known for an ever-growing collection of video game studios and IP, has swallowed up even more as news that Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth has now fallen under the Embracer umbrella. This means that any new games, television shows, or other types of media that release within Tolkien’s world will do so under the giant burning eye of Embracer Group.
]]>Though the news had leaked well ahead of time, the reveal of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake remains one of the biggest surprises in that one State of Play from last September.
]]>After Embracer Group's recent acquisition of Tomb Raider and more, it's looking like "remakes, remasters, and spinoffs," are on the table.
]]>It's been a good week for Embracer Group and Saber Interactive: after the publisher/developer combo announced that Evil Dead: The Game sold 500,000 units in under a week, it's become clear that there's an appetite for all things multiplayer horror – a trend helped into popularity by the runaway success of games like Dead by Daylight.
]]>In its Q4 and year end report, Gearbox's parent company Embracer Group announced the studio has nine triple-A titles in the works.
]]>Evil Dead: The Game may have had something of a quiet launch as far as marketing and buzz go, but the game has already been a success; per a new tweet about the owner of the game IP, Embracer Group, the game has sold through 500,000 units in just five days.
]]>I’ve got a soft spot for what, I’m told, are ‘s**t games’. From Croc: Legend of the Gobbos to Summoner, my taste in old PlayStation titles is, admittedly, probably quite patchy. People tell me that being an apologist for Gex should see my right to write about games revoked – that I can’t possibly know what I’m on about if I’ve got a soft spot for the literal lounge lizard’s dodgy platforming and questionable taste levels.
]]>It's been (another) big week for gaming news. On an unassuming Monday morning, the industry learned that Square Enix agreed to the sale of Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Lara Craft Go – along with the studios that make the games – to the Embracer Group.
]]>The Legacy of Kain series has been unlucky. Doomed. Multiple attempts to reanimate its wrecked corpse have been met with failure. The curse of Kain has, reportedly, taken studios and careers down with it. But then, maybe that makes sense; the dual protagonists of the series – Kain and Raziel – were never known for their luck, were they? Fated to dance through life and death as Nosgoth blooms and fades around them, their attachment to the world of the living was always tenuous, at best.
]]>Yesterday, we heard the landmark news that Square Enix has agreed to the sale of Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Lara Craft Go – along with the studios that make the games – to the Embracer Group.
]]>The Embracer Group has embraced a host of new studios. The holding company on purchasing spree has agreed to acquire three of Square Enix's Western studios, along with their franchises and back-catalogues. That's Tomb Raider's Crystal Dynamics, Guardians of the Galaxy (and Deus Ex) developer Eidos Montreal, and Square Enix Montreal (Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go).
]]>Deep Silver's parent company, Embracer Group, has confirmed Dead Island 2 is still in development, but it's not expected to be released until some point during the company's next fiscal year which begins in March 2023.
]]>Gearbox Software – the developer responsible for the Borderlands series, Brothers in Arms, Battleborn, and more besides – has a new president as founder and CEO Randy Pitchford steps away from the role to head up parent company, The Gearbox Entertainment Company.
]]>Embracer Group is expanding its studio portfolio further with eight new teams.
]]>Wait, wasn't Battleborn a risk?
]]>Embracer Group has purchased Gearbox.
]]>THQ Nordi and Deep Silver parent company Embracer Group has gone on another shopping spree.
]]>Embracer Group, the parent company of THQ Nordic, has doled out millions to acquire Saber Interactive, the studio behind The Witcher 3 Switch port and World War Z.
]]>Tarsier Studios is now part of the ever-expanding THQ Nordic/Koch family.
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