Take-Two acquires Borderlands studio Gearbox from Embracer for $460m
Take-Two acquires Borderlands studio Gearbox from Embracer for $460m
Embracer has entered an agreement to sell Gearbox Interactive to Take-Two for $460m.
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...Is this a good thing?
Embracer massively fucked over a huge raft of studios. Bought them all up and then killed projects and laid off staff after not making the (entirely unrealistic) returns they expected.
Anything that means those studios are getting out from under Embracer is probably good.
Depends:
Is it better to not ever see another game from the studio again, or to see them pumping out crap designed exclusively to extract money from wallets?
depends if the next borderlands makes you wish it never existed
I was so frustrated with BL3 given that BL2 was basically a masterpiece.
I hope they go back to BL1/2 territory by simplifying and paring down some of the bloat.
Handsome Jack worked so well because he didn't feel forced. And Pandora worked in 2 because it was merely an expansion of what existed in 1 without trying to go way too big like BL3.
KISS works well for many things, but especially the Borderlands franchise.
As long as we don't get another BL3, yes
Duke Nukem Forever devs over in the corner hoping everyone continues to think BL3 was the worst game Gearbox ever made.
Wasn't Gearbox hired to finish Duke Nukem Forever? I remember it being someone else's turd they had to polish.
3DRealms ran out of money and Gearbox bought the rights in 2010 ahead of the 2011 release, but according to Wikipedia, several of the 3DRealms developers were brought on board as a part of that process.
Well considering Embracer is closing it's studios up left and right, and cancelling projects, I'd say yes. Embracer has been extra shit this year.
Also take two owns the borderlands IP, Gearbox has been the one developing it, all it makes sense for the two to join together.
I mean yeah, Take Two (2k, Rockstar) certainly has a better management track record than Embracer, and a lot of other bracer studios were just shut down, at least franchises like Borderlands and Risk of Rain might live on now.
Yes. We should embrace it. /notsorry
More seriously, we don't know. Only time will tell. Take-Two will definitely be looking at redundancies, so it might not be good for all employees. For the IPs, hopefully it can't get much worse than sitting at Embracer while the company sinks like the Titanic. But Take Two has also had layoffs and shelved projects. One can only hope for the best.
Potentially