Embracer Group continues to lose people with the latest group being the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake developers Saber Interactive. The KOTOR Remake developer has made a deal with Embracer Group worth $500 million, and will now operate as a privately owned company.
Before you start worrying, this might actually be good for the KOTOR Remake. Not only will development continue as it was, but there’s less risk of Embracer Group canning the entire project for some unintelligible reason.
Embracer’s ECO Lars Wingefors didn’t answer any questions on the upcoming game and said that anything he says will become a headline so he doesn’t want to reveal anything. That’s the last update we got on the KOTOR Remake. But before the Star Wars fans get their fill, Saber Interactive will be working on, and releasing, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, which is planned for September 2024.
The Space Marine 2 game will give us some idea about how the separation from Embracer Group could impact the development of KOTOR Remake.
Saber Interactive Leaving Embracer Group in $500 Million Deal
Embracer Group has been going through something of a restructuring, which has resulted in multiple studios sold off like Gearbox, developers of the Borderlands games. To top it off, Embracer contributed to the mass layoff spree that has hit the industry by firing almost 1,400 people since last year. And in an attempt to “shed weight” almost 30 unreleased, and some announced, games were canned because they didn’t make “financial sense.”
After its impressive acquisition spree began, Embracer Group ended up in dire straits after a $2 billion deal fell apart with Savvy Games Group. Since then the group has disbanded Volition Studios, makers of Saints Row, and has canceled the upcoming Deux Ex game while firing almost 100 people from Eidos Montreal.
Hopefully, the independence of Saber Interactive will provide clarity about the long-term vision of the KOTOR Remake as well as Space Marines 2, which is right around the corner.
