Embracer Group, the company forging one IP portfolio to rule them all, explained
The Embracer Group is a doozy of a media company. It’s 11 parent companies in a massive trench coat that are themselves composed of several more parent companies that own publishers and developers and the rights to video game franchises both AAA and indie. Earlier today, it added a bunch more companies to its roster including Limited Run Games, Maneater developer Tripwire Interactive, and the intellectual property rights to parts of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit universes.
To list all of Embracer Group’s companies and assets would take an unreasonable amount of time and space and would get kinda boring. So here are the high points in the company’s portfolio.
Embracer Group owns the companies that own the companies that make: Little Nightmares II, Goat Simulator, Destroy All Humans!, TimeSplitters, Timecop, Darksiders, Saints Row, Duke Nukem, Borderlands, Valheim, Killing Floor, Deus Ex, andTomb Raider.
In 2021, Embracer bought Dark Horse Media, parent group of Dark Horse Comics — the fourth-largest comics publisher and home to hits like Hellboy, Sin City, 300, and The Umbrella Academy. Naturally, this also means it owns the rights to all of those comics’ future movie adaptations, too. But wait, there’s more! Embracer Group also owns several physical game publishers, including a ton of licensed card and board games, and thee Settlers of Catan.
Most of these companies and franchises were acquired in the last four years. This most recent acquisition tear started back in May of this year when it bought the Tomb Raider and Deus Ex franchises along with other development studios and games from Square Enix Europe. In a press release, the company said the deal “brings a compelling pipeline of new installments from
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