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Report: Embracer’s $2 Billion Deal That Blew Up Was With Saudi Arabia
1A new report claims that the infamous collapse of Embracer Group’s $2 billion deal was due to a Saudi investment group getting cold feet.
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Yakuza Games Scrub A Bunch Of People From The Credits, Including Series Creator Toshihiro Nagoshi
The Yakuza Complete Series dropped on retailer Good Old Games last week, bundling the first seven games in the franchise in the one offering. It is a great deal, but fans testing out the release to see if there was anything different about it have turned up something weird.
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Bobby Kotick Is Stoking Chinese Fear To Champion The Microsoft Acquisition
In order to ease UK regulators’ reluctance to approve the Microsoft acquisition, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick went on CNBC to make a case for the merger. His comments about the UK becoming “Death Valley” if the merger was not approved have earned him well-deserved ridicule. But maybe we should all be a little sceptical…
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2022 Was The Year The Video Game Industry Ate Itself
The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. Epic Games bought Mediatonic (Fall Guys), Sony bought Housemarque (Returnal), and Embracer bought Gearbox (Borderlands). It seemed like things might slow down in 2022, but instead they ramped up even more into an acquisition free-for-all. What will the future bring? Nobody knows. But the…