Every Extend Extra! Extra! (News Thread)

damn cant wait for shadow of mordor: turd burgaler, for the intellivision amico

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back in the previous corporate handoff of Warner everyone was hoping someone like Microsoft might pick us up because maybe they would want what we could make. But they held off and set up some competing priorities (including a second office in San Francisco built from mobile gaming execs so we could have two competing strategic visions?) until someone came up with a grand strategy to tie all the bones of Midway and THQ Warner had accidentally collected into a unified plan.

Naturally, changing what studios work on involves canceling what studios are working on.

Naturally, the key to kicking off any Five Year Plan is to change bosses in year one and wonder if youā€™d be better off divesting.

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bargain

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Yeah, weirdly cheap. Thatā€™s like one high-end triple A budget.

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they need the money to paint more emet selch portraits

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Gex GEx GEX gEX

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now that squeenix knows how to use unreal engine theyā€™re like bye we never needed you

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canā€™t believe theyā€™re going to trade 40 minutes of western games no one thinks of when they think of square-enix with 40 minutes of cringe blockchain shit no one wants in all of their press conferences from now on

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personally Iā€™m mourning the possibility of jc denton nfts

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In retrospect, was the renewing of the Gexā„¢ trademark earlier this year part of preparations to bundle it in this sale?

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The holding company that owns all these studios being called The Embracer Group is some cyberpunk nonsense

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these studios all pretty much peaked in 2016 with their first round of PS4 releases back when they notably still had IO leading the pack so while this seems kind of goofy I canā€™t say that they were exactly being valued as is

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they called up the filthy gaijin to ask them what an NFT was. they got what they needed

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ā€œEmbracer Group AB is a Swedish video game and media holding company based in Karlstadā€ kane and lynch is back in the hands of nords maybe this will make it more likely to get licensed to io to use if they want. and make it less likely the thief series will end up in the hands of french canadians again.

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Your mission: mindjack into the CyberVault of The Embracer Group and rescue the Gex AI construct from captivity

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yeah I mean, though they are a company whoā€™s purpose is gobbling up old IPs, I still view this as relative diversificationā€¦ and most of these properties are likely in much better hands held by anyone but squeenix. canā€™t be sad about itā€¦ not sure if I should feel good about it.

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