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Siôn Geschwindt @ The Next Web 1 place · 03/15/2024 10:38 EDT

Riddled with debt, Sweden’s Embracer sells Star Wars game maker for $500M

Swedish gaming company Embracer Group has sold a big chunk of one of its biggest subsidiaries, US-headquartered Saber Interactive, in a deal totalling $500mn.  The buyer is Beacon Interactive, a holding company recently formed by none other than Saber’s own co-founder Matthew Karch. In a letter shared with Bloomberg, Karch said he was buying back the rights to his company and many of its studios because “they represent the best of what Saber is and can be.”  Saber Interactive is currently overseeing the dev

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