Swedish video game and media holding hug group wants to release 19 AAA games by March 2026. He’s on teams all over the world developed 224 titles for PC and consoles, including 31 AAA titles. They are scheduled to be released by the end of fiscal year 27/28.
As part of the ambitious plan for fiscal year 2023/2024 (until March 31, 2024), five Lord of the Rings games from external partners. Embracer is picking them up because last year it bought Middle-Earth Enterprises, which, according to a press release, generated a lot of interest from internal and external partners to license The Lord of the Rings in various media formats.
Among these projects, most likely also Lord of the Rings: Gollum from the Daedalics. The stealth action adventure game has been pushed back to last summer, but without a specific date. Embracer will receive a license fee for this, and Nacon will handle the release. In the other four cases, it can be not only big games for PC and consoles, but also games for mobile devices.
It should arrive by March 31, 2028. five AAA games from Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal. It should be Tomb Raider (Amazon Games) and Perfect Dark. The first project is entirely under the leadership of Crystal Dynamics, and the second includes this team as a support, led by Microsoft The Initiative. There is also talk of a new Deus Ex in very early development from Eidos, as well as a new brand from Eidos and a collaboration with Microsoft Playground Games on Fable. But this is unofficial information.
8 more games will be released by Gearbox Entertainment, 11 by Saber Interactive, 6 by Plaion and 1 by THQ Nordic (or a remake of Gothic?). 24 games are self-published, 28 are developed in-house, 23 are based on their own extension, 24 are based on a famous brand, and 7 are based on a new extension.
To date it has been only 6 out of 31 projects announced. The closest is Dead Island 2, the survival action game will be released on 04/21/2023 on PC and consoles of both generations of PlayStation and Xbox. The presence of Czech subtitles will please.
Source: deep silverDead Island 2 replaces the classic skill tree with a card system
Announced games include the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake, Hyper Light Breaker (the sequel to Hyper Light Drifter), Payday 3, System Shock Remake, and Lightyear Frontier (on Game Pass this year). Also Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II and Remnant II.
Embracer defines AAA games as games with more than 100 in-house developers, notable or significant marketing budgets, and expected sales of at least two million units. The rest in the above plans are mix of AA, AA and indie gamesas well as major DLCs and ports or projects for new platforms.
Embracer Group boasts a 128 percent increase in net sales in the third quarter of 2022 (October to December) compared to the same period last year. Success is mainly related to games Goat Simulator 3 And Evil West. For both, the company says they lived up to expectations. Old games like Deep Rock Galactic, Hot Wheels Unleashed, Insurgency: Sandstorm, SnowRunner, Star Trek Online, Chivalry 2 or Borderlands 3 have also filled the coffers and continue to sell well.
Source :Indian TV
