Tag: Saber Interactive

Embracer divests Saber Interactive for $247M, pulls out of Russia

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Embracer Group announced today that it has sold Saber Interactive for $247 million to Beacon Interactive. Reports of the deal going through first surfaced several weeks ago, and now Embracer has disclosed […]

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Embracer to sell Saber, Star Wars: KotR remake dev, for $500M

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Embracer Group has plans to sell Saber Interactive, one of its largest subsidiaries, to a group of private investors in a deal worth up to $500 million. This transaction would make Saber […]

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Lara Croft modding maestro reveals he’s been missing because Saber nabbed him for the Tomb Raider ‘dream team’, assembling a crack squad ‘of crazy people’ to put together the remasters

If you’ve been wondering where OpenLara—an open-source engine reimplementation for the first five Tomb Raider games—has wandered off to, we now have an answer. Its creator Timur Gagiev got lassoed by Saber and Aspyr to lead their remasters of Tomb Raiders 1-3, lending them his expertise in gussying up Lara’s oldest adventures for the past […]

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Disney games boss acknowledges ‘a lot of demand’ for Knights of the Old Republic remake, giving me my first spark of hope for the project in ages

Games industry head honchos have all gotten into the same hobby recently: Refusing to say anything about the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake that got revealed at a PlayStation showcase all the way back in September 2021. It just seems that no one at any of the corporations supposedly involved—Sony, Disney, and […]

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The Embracer spiral continues as Insurgency: Sandstorm studio New World Interactive lays off employees

Saber Interactive, a division of Embracer Group, has confirmed that it has laid off employees at its New World Interactive studio, the developer of Insurgency: Sandstorm. Word of the layoffs first came as a rumor that New World Interactive was being closed outright, reported on Twitter by Nick Calandra of Second Wind. In a statement […]

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Sources claim the Knights of the Old Republic remake isn’t dead, though what’s really going on is anyone’s guess

It’s been yet another rollercoaster week for Embracer’s beleaguered remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which was “delayed indefinitely” last year after Texan studio Aspyr Media was relieved of development duties.  On Friday, reports emerged that Embracer’s boss had refused comment on the fate of the game, stating with exquisite irony “I […]

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The Knights of the Old Republic Remake is either dead or about to become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

Friends, I’m beginning to worry that we might not ever see the Knights of the Old Republic remake at all. It may have made a splash at its announcement during a 2021 PlayStation showcase, but it’s been hanging on by a thread ever since a vertical slice demo—meant to show off all the game’s features […]

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