{"id":127360,"date":"2022-08-18T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-136240"},"modified":"2022-08-18T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T19:00:00","slug":"guide-so-what-does-embracer-group-actually-own-the-rights-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/18\/guide-so-what-does-embracer-group-actually-own-the-rights-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide: So, What Does Embracer Group Actually Own The Rights To?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disclaimer: We are not lawyers and some of the wording here may not be legally correct. Apologies in advance!<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you’re at all tuned in to gaming news, you’ll probably have noticed the seemingly-endless and slightly-worrying number of news posts<\/a> about acquisitions over the past few years \u2014 and that one of the names cropping up over and over again is Embracer Group<\/a>, which seems to be snarfing up game studios left and right.<\/p>\n

But at this point, you’re probably wondering \u2014 okay, what do they actually own the rights to now? Sure, Embracer Group themselves won’t be making<\/em> the games, but they have the power to order new entries in a fair few IPs at this point, most recently the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit series<\/a>, which they acquired in August of 2022.<\/p>\n

So, et’s take a look at a (non-exhaustive) list of the biggest IPs, franchises, and titles that Embracer now owns:<\/p>\n

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It also looks like they hold a large number of shares in the companies that make the following games:<\/p>\n

And, finally, they also own Limited Run Games, a physical publisher of video games (which hasn’t actually developed any in-house).<\/p>\n

Comics, Movies & TV<\/h3>\n
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Embracer has ownership of Dark Horse Comics, which has published comics for the following stories:<\/p>\n