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videogameworkers.bsky.social
The award for "Most Workers Laid Off" goes to...

EMBRACER GROUP
For laying off roughly 7800 workers between July 2023 and July 2025
The award for Most Workers Laid Off goes to the Embracer Group, for laying off 7800 workers in the past two years
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
elinemuijres.com
BREAKING: Embracer finds out closing studios leads to lack of new releases
November 15, 2024 at 6:44 PM
unburntwitch.com
OH OKAY so glad this was the guy in charge of which studios Embracer shuttered
cobaltcrash.bsky.social Cobalt @cobaltcrash.bsky.social · Aug 13
Oh hey it's the guy who posted this shit comment on an asmongold video wherein he bemoans "imposing morals on gamers" and the complexity of modern games.

And of course he somehow entirely misses the point of 40k despite making a game about 40k. Classic.
August 13, 2026 at 1:13 AM
mattmcmuscles.bsky.social
Really hoping the games section moves to anywhere else except for uh...EA, Activision, Microsoft, Embracer, Ubisoft...uh
shinobi602.bsky.social Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · Oct 21
Warner Bros. signals it's up for sale and has received interest from "multiple parties"

➡️ hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Different options are on the table, including a split and spin, buying the entire company or "separate transactions" for its different businesses.
October 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
mattmcmuscles.bsky.social
The announcement is that Embracer is shutting down Crystal Dynamics, while Geoff smiles and nods and cuts to the next commercial.
shinobi602.bsky.social Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · Dec 8
New Tomb Raider announcement coming at The Game Awards
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
unburntwitch.com
Here's this same guy, Matt Karsh, who was personally responsible for shutting down some of the game studios Embracer killed over the last few years, saying HE QUIT BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T FIRE *ENOUGH* GAME DEVELOPERS FOR HIS LIKING www.gamedeveloper.com/business/sab...
But flip the coin over, and you'll find the former interim COO of Embracer, who took on the role of "the bad guy" when evaluating whether to shut down studios and cancel games. He said he reviewed many of the games in development at Embracer subsidiaries and identified a number that would have been "not good." "At that point you either put the team on something else, or you close down, or you reduce the team size," he said. "When money is tight, you have no choice." He said he departed Embracer because he was "insistent" the company needed to do more of that. Certain studios, he said, should never have been started in the first place. He called out one subsidiary with a team of what he said were inexperienced developers that had never shipped a game before, pouring millions of dollars into a game licensed from a major franchise. "After a long period of time, there was nothing really to show for it," he said. "Their goal was basically to start anew." He said it didn't give him any pleasure to argue that the studio had to be shut down. (It's only the description that this studio was new and founded with people who "hadn't shipped a game before" that keeps it from sounding like Aspyr's ill-fated work on the remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. In a follow-up email a Saber spokesperson declined to state which studio Karch was referring to.)
August 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
ela-bambust.bsky.social
People don't hate Embracer enough
April 1, 2026 at 12:06 PM
tumerboy.bsky.social
Hey, as someone who no longer works under Embracer, let me just say:

Fuck Embracer.
August 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
schillingc.bsky.social
Microsoft about to announce a partnership with Embracer Group?
July 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
stephentotilo.bsky.social
NEW: In an extraordinary legal filing, former Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick says an ongoing lawsuit against the Microsoft-Activision deal was secretly set up to help The Embracer Group

Embracer tells me they're “humbled” but deny the claim.
This one's wild

www.gamefile.news/p/bobby-koti...
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says lawsuit opposing Microsoft-Activision deal was secretly meant to help The Embracer Group (Embracer, “humbled,” denies involvement)
In a grievance-filled legal filing, Kotick also vows to “shine a light on the gross misconduct of the activists who invented the false narrative of misconduct at Activision… “
www.gamefile.news
January 14, 2026 at 12:59 AM
unburntwitch.com
literally no, a friend of mine had his studio closed because the people who funded him got bought by embracer and then embracer did what embracer does. that's completely unforeseeable.
July 1, 2026 at 7:24 PM
jamesbjones.com
If only Embracer Group hadn’t canceled 29 games, laid off 1,500 developers, and closed seven studios.

If only.
November 15, 2024 at 7:19 PM
jasonschreier.bsky.social
Last year, when Take-Two bought Borderlands developer Gearbox following the Embracer explosion, they shuttered Gearbox Publishing (Risk of Rain, Godfall). Now, the former execs have started a brand new publisher to make games for "busy people." This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Former Gearbox Staff Start New Company After Embracer Explosion
Cooldown Games aims to publish new titles geared toward “busy people.”
www.bloomberg.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
mikerose.bsky.social
Is there anything more ironic than Embracer renaming themselves "Fellowship", after what they've done to this industry over the last 5 years

embracer.com/releases/emb...
Embracer to spin off Coffee Stain Group – remaining business to be renamed Fellowship Entertainment - Embracer Group
Following the communication on April 22, 2024, and the separation of Asmodee in February 2025, the next step in the transformation of Embracer Group AB (“Embracer”) is now being initiated. Embracer to...
embracer.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
aftermath.site
Executives should be facing the music, not laying off workers:

aftermath.site/embracer-lay...
October 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
I keep the overdressed swan embracer in my photo library just in case
A younger Leonardo DiCaprio hugs a swan that whose neck is wrapped around his neck in a black and white Annie Liebovitz photograph
July 27, 2026 at 11:04 PM
standardissuecomputing.blog
Embracer sucks
nesbot.bsky.social NESbot @nesbot.bsky.social · Dec 11
Embracer has officially closed Free Radical
www.resetera.com/threads/79...
December 11, 2023 at 4:02 PM
aftermath.site
Executives should be facing the music, not laying off workers:

aftermath.site/embracer-lay...
August 15, 2024 at 12:00 PM
civvie11.bsky.social
I don't think anyone called Embracer for advice
July 6, 2026 at 8:22 PM
sanmei.bsky.social
The fact that Square sold so many studios to Embracer to invest in NFTs, and then Embracer killed those studios to invest in LLMs... fucking techbros.
June 16, 2026 at 2:59 PM
mauser.bsky.social
Budgeting via Grok would certainly explain the Embracer Group
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
longtalljodie.com
The Embracer Group can embrace my entire ass.
February 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
aftermath.site
After years of consolidating the games industry, Embracer has decided to diversify it again but worse.
aftermath.site/embracer-gro...
April 22, 2024 at 2:24 PM
wario64.bsky.social
Embracer Group divests Arc Games and Cryptic Studios

Embracer Group retains publishing rights to Remnant franchise. Rights for Fellowship retained under Coffee Stain

www.gematsu.com/2025/11/embr...

www.embracer.com/releases/emb...
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
aftermath.site
Executives should be facing the music, not laying off workers:

aftermath.site/embracer-lay...
May 8, 2024 at 12:43 AM