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Embracer goes on spending spree: buys Lord of the Rings IP rights, Tripwire Interactive, and more The acquisition happy company simply won’t stop. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Embracer Group, the parent company for a vast and expanding roster of studios and publishers including THQ Nordic, Gearbox, Plaion (formerly Koch Media) and Saber Interactive, has announced it will acquire Middle-earth Enterprises, which basically means it owns IP rights for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and a bunch of other Middle-earth related stuff the company doesn’t even know about, yet....

Embracer report suggests the KOTOR remake isn’t delayed after all The company’s recent report suggests it’s moved to a new developer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Despite arecent Bloomberg reportthat the Knights of the Old Republic remake was “delayed indefinitely,” the game might still be on its way this year. According toa financial reportfrom Embracer Group, theIP-hungryparent company of the studios working on the game, “One of the Group’s AAA projects has transitioned to another studio within the Group,” and that it isn’t “expecting any material delays for the title based on this transition....

Farthest Frontier devs didn’t include churches to avoid ‘drama around real world religions’ A designer has responded to players' questions about the lack of churches in the survival city builder. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. This article was originally published on August 17, and was updated on August 18 to include a response from Crate Entertainment owner and lead designer Arthur Bruno....

Farthest Frontier: How to get heavy tools in the new survival city builder You need heavy tools to make iron bars. But you need iron bars to make heavy tools. How’s that work? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In Farthest Frontier, heavy tools are an important resource for producing items for your settlement and even for building certain structures....

Helldivers 2 is definitely real, and probably announcing soon 12 seconds of a Helldivers 2 trailer makes its way to Twitter. Maybe we’ll see more at Gamescom. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. AnotherNvidia leakbears out: 12 seconds of footage from a Helldivers 2 trailer has leaked on Twitter ahead of an official announcement. As sequels go, Helldivers 2 shouldn’t be a big surprise at this point: developer Arrowhead Game Studios (also the makers of Magicka) hasn’t released a new game since Helldivers in 2015, and last October Arrowhead tweeted somecryptic binary codethat seemed like a tease for an announcement that never materialized....

Here are the games joining and leaving PC Game Pass in August Death Stranding might be one of them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. It looks like Death Stranding is coming to PC Game Pass. The addition hasn’t been announced officially, but thePC Game Pass accounton Twitter changed its avatar to an image of a Death Stranding vista and posted a tweet that says “sometimes we just like a good landscape picture....

Here’s a 16-bit cybersamurai epic from the devs of Blazing Chrome Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider could have exploded right out of a Sega in 1988. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. With a name like a long-lost Japanese tokusatsu series and a slavish dedication to a 16-bit aesthetic,Blazing Chromedevelopers JoyMasher are at it again. They’ve just announced their fourth game, Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider, an action platformer the the kind of 16-bit style that would have been right at home on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, or even the glowing backlit screen of a Game Gear....