List of mergers and acquisitions by Embracer Group

Embracer Group is a Swedish video game holding company controlled by Lars Wingefors. as of 2020 they own more than 60 internal studios in over 45 countries in Europe and the Americas. It's subsidiaries are organized under eight groups: Amplifier Game Invest, Coffee Stain Holding, DECA Games, Easybrain, Gearbox Entertainment, Koch Media, Saber Interactive and THQ Nordic. Each group has its own operations, subsidiaries and development studios.

This article is about the company's corporate mergers and acquisitions. For its acquisitions of intellectual properties, see List of acquisitions by THQ Nordic.

Acquisitions
Date Company Country Parent company Value Reference
August 2011 JoWooD  Austria THQ Nordic [1][2]
January 2013 Rainbow Studios  United States [3]
August 2017 Black Forest Games  Germany [4]
Pieces Interactive  Sweden $350,000 [5]
November 2017 Experiment 101 [6]
February 2018 Koch Media  Austria/ Germany Koch Media $149,000,000 [7]
July 2018 HandyGames  Germany THQ Nordic [8]
November 2018 Coffee Stain Holding  Sweden Coffee Stain Holding $34,900,000 [9]
November 2018 Bugbear Entertainment (90%)  Finland THQ Nordic
February 2019 Warhorse Studios  Czech Republic Koch Media €42,800,000 [10]
May 2019 Piranha Bytes  Germany THQ Nordic [11]
August 2019 Milestone  Italy Koch Media €44,900,000 [12][13]
Gunfire Games  United States THQ Nordic [14]
Goodbye Kansas Game Invest
  • Fall Damage (minority stake)
  • Framebunker (minority stake)
  • Kavalri (minority stake)
  • Neon Giant (minority stake)
  • Palindrome Interactive (minority stake)[lower-alpha 2]
  Sweden Amplifier Game Invest $3,950,000 [15]
December 2019 Tarsier Studios  Sweden $10,500,000 [16]
February 2020 Saber Interactive
  • Saber Belarus
  • Saber Porto
  • Saber Russia
  • Saber Spain
  • Saber Sweden
  United States Saber Interactive $525,000,000 [17]
Voxler  France Koch Media €1,900,000 [18]
May 2020 DestinyBit  Italy Amplifier Game Invest [19]
August 2020 4A Games  Malta/ Ukraine Saber Interactive $45,000,000 [20][21][22]
New World Interactive  United States
Rare Earth Games  Austria Amplifier Game Invest $3,955,000
Vermilia Studios  Spain $3,500,000
Pow Wow Entertainment  Austria THQ Nordic
DECA Games  Germany DECA Games €25,000,000
September 2020 Vertigo Games  Netherlands Koch Media €50,000,000 [23]
November 2020 Flying Wild Hog  Poland $137,000,000 [24][25]
Purple Lamp Studios  Austria THQ Nordic [25]
Zen Studios  Hungary Saber Interactive
Snapshot Games  Bulgaria
Nimble Giant Entertainment  Argentina
34BigThings  Italy
Mad Head Games  Serbia
A Thinking Ape Entertainment  Canada DECA Games $31,000,000
IUGO Mobile Entertainment
Silent Games  United Kingdom Amplifier Game Invest
Quantic Lab (95%)  Romania €4,500,000
February 2021 Gearbox Software
  • Gearbox Studio Québec
  United States Gearbox Software $1,300,000,000 [26]
Easybrain  Cyprus/ Belarus Easybrain $640,000,000 [27]
Aspyr  United States Saber Interactive $450,000,000 [28]

Notes
  1. Coffee Stain North was fully acquired in November 2020
  2. Palindrome Interactive was fully acquired in August 2020

References
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  4. Brightman, James (21 August 2017). "THQ Nordic acquires Black Forest Games". GamesIndustry.biz. Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  5. Novac, Dragos (28 August 2017). "THQ Nordic buys Pieces Interactive, one of the veteran Swedish gaming companies, for $350k". Nordic 9. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  6. Batchelor, James (17 November 2017). "Biomutant developer Experiment 101 acquired by THQ Nordic". GamesIndustry.biz. Archived from the original on 17 November 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  7. "De Blob publisher THQ Nordic buys Koch Media for €121m".
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  10. James, Sarah (13 February 2019). "THQ Nordic acquire Kingdom Come: Deliverance makers Warhorse Studios". PC Gamer.
  11. Jackson, Mike (22 May 2019). "THQ Nordic acquires Gothic developer Piranha Bytes". GamesIndustry.biz. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  12. Blake, Vikki (14 August 2019). "Koch Media to acquire Milestone and all IPs, including MotoGP and Supercross". MCV.
  13. Wingefors, Lars (14 August 2019). "THQ Nordic completes the acquisition of Milestone". Cision.
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  17. "Embracer Group acquires Saber Interactive in $525m deal".
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  24. "Embracer Group acquires Flying Wild Hog".
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  27. Takahashi, Dean (February 2, 2021). "Embracer Group acquires mobile game maker Easybrain for $640 million". Venture Beat. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  28. Takahashi, Dean (February 2, 2021). "Embracer Group acquires Aspyr Media for up to $450 million". Venture Beat. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
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