Square Enix Enters Agreement To Sell Overseas Studio & Subsidaries To Embracer Group

Sport developer firm Sq. Enix introduced on Could 2, 2022, that the corporate has reached an settlement to promote its abroad studio, Sq. Enix Montreal, to Sweden-based Embracer Group AB. Embracer will likely be buying a listing of IPs from Sq. Enix Holdings Co. Ltd., together with Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, Legacy of Kain and 50 different back-catalogue video games.

“SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (the “Firm”) in the present day signed a share switch settlement with Sweden-based Embracer Group AB regarding the divestiture of choose abroad studios and IP (the “Transaction”),” the corporate wrote in its assertion.

The full worth of the deal is $300 million to be paid in money and debt free on the time of closing of the deal. The deal will undergo after receiving varied regulatory and different exterior approvals. It’s anticipated to be accomplished between July-Sep 2022.

The transaction may also switch the shares of Sq. Enix’s subsidiaries, CRYSTAL DYNAMICS, INC. and EIDOS INTERACTIVE CORP, to Embracer.

Sq. Enix mentioned that the transaction will assist the corporate to adapt to the adjustments which are underway within the international enterprise atmosphere, by serving to them allocate assets extra effectively, which might in flip speed up the corporate’s development within the digital leisure area.

The transaction would additionally allow “the launch of recent companies by shifting ahead with investments in fields together with blockchain, AI, and the cloud.”

Embracer will likely be buying roughly 1,100 staff throughout the three studios in eight places across the globe. The transfer is a nod to the Swedish primarily based firm’s mission to create a number one unbiased international gaming and leisure ecosystem.

“We’re thrilled to welcome these studios into the Embracer Group. We acknowledge the implausible IP, world class inventive expertise, and observe file of excellence which have been demonstrated again and again over the previous a long time. It has been an ideal pleasure assembly the management groups and discussing future plans for a way they’ll understand their ambitions and grow to be an ideal a part of Embracer,” Lars Wingefors, Co-founder and Group CEO, Embracer Group mentioned.

As soon as the acquisition is finished, Embracer could have greater than 14,000 staff, 10,000 engaged recreation builders, and 124 inner studios. The sport developer at present has greater than 230 video games, together with greater than 30 AAA video games, in its content material pipeline.

Sq. Enix will proceed to develop video games akin to JUST CAUSE, OUTRIDERS, and Life is Unusual in its studios in Japan, Sq. Enix Exterior Studios and Sq. Enix Collective.

Sq. Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japanese leisure conglomerate and online game firm finest identified for its Last Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts role-playing online game franchises, amongst quite a few others.

Sq. Enix established it’s Sq. Enix Europe subsidiary in 2009, after merging with the then Eidos Interactive firm. Sq. Enix Europe handles Sq. Enix’s Western studios, together with Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal and Sq. Enix Montreal, accommodates Sq. Enix’s Western exterior publishing division, Sq. Enix Exterior Studios and indie initiative, Sq. Enix Collective.

Supply: Embracer, Sq. Enix Press launch.