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Embracer Group

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Formerly Name:

  • Nordic Games Licensing AB (2011-2016)

  • THQ Nordic AB (2016–2019)

Company Profile: Holding Company

Company Type:: Subsidiary

Parent Company: Digital Bros (2006)

Headquarters: Karlstad, Sweden

Founded: 2011

Founder: Lars Wingefors

Fate: Active


Embracer Group AB (formerly Nordic Games Licensing AB and THQ Nordic AB) is a Swedish video game and media holding company based in Karlstad. As of September 2023, Embracer Group has twelve operative groups as its direct subsidiaries: Amplifier Game Invest, Asmodee, CDE Entertainment, Coffee Stain Holding, Dark Horse Media, DECA Games, Easybrain, Embracer Freemode including its subdivision Middle-earth Enterprises, Gearbox Entertainment, Plaion, Saber Interactive, and THQ Nordic. Each group has its own operations, subsidiaries and development studios.

 

The company was established under the name Nordic Games Licensing in 2011 as part of Nordic Games Group and as the parent of publisher Nordic Games GmbH (now THQ Nordic GmbH). The company has acquired several assets from defunct publishers, beginning with those of JoWooD in 2011 and THQ in 2013. In August 2016, Nordic Games Licensing and its publishing subsidiary changed their names to THQ Nordic AB and THQ Nordic GmbH, utilising the "THQ" trademark that it had acquired in 2014. In November 2016, it became a public company listed on Nasdaq First North. Throughout 2018, THQ Nordic acquired Koch Media Holding (parent of Koch Media) and Coffee Stain Holding (parent of Coffee Stain Studios), both of which became independently operating groups within THQ Nordic, complementary to THQ Nordic GmbH. To avoid confusion with THQ Nordic GmbH and to clarify its position as a holding company, THQ Nordic AB was renamed as Embracer Group in September 2019, while THQ Nordic GmbH retained its name.


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Company Structure

Subsidiaries:

  • THQ Nordic:

    • Alkimia Interactive

    • Appeal Studios

    • Ashborne Games

    • Black Forest Games

    • Bugbear Entertainment

    • Experiment 101

    • Gate21

    • Grimlore Games

    • Gunfire Games

    • HandyGames:

      • Massive Miniteam

    • Kaiko

    • Metricminds

    • Mirage Game Studios

    • Nine Rocks Games

    • Pieces Interactive

    • Piranha Bytes

    • Pow Wow Entertainment

    • Purple Lamp

    • Rainbow Studios:

      • Rainbow Studios Montréal

  • Plaion:

    • Deep Silver:

      • Dambuster Studios

      • Fishlabs

    • Development Plus

    • DigixArt

    • Flying Wild Hog:

      • Flying Wild Hog Cracow

      • Flying Wild Hog Rzeszów

    • Milestone

    • Plaion Pictures:

      • Anime Limited

      • Sola Media

      • Spotfilm Networx

    • Prime Matter

    • Ravenscourt

    • Splatter Connect

    • Vertigo Games:

      • Vertigo Arcade

      • Vertigo Publishing:

        • Vertigo Publishing Amsterdam

      • Vertigo Studios

      • SpringboardVR

    • Voxler

    • Warhorse Studios

  • Coffee Stain:

    • Box Dragon

    • Coffee Stain Studios:

      • Coffee Stain Gothenburg

      • Coffee Stain Malmö

      • Coffee Stain North

    • Coffee Stain Publishing

    • Easy Trigger Games

    • Ghost Ship Games:

      • Ghost Ship Publishing

    • Lavapotion

  • Amplifier Game Invest:

    • A Creative Endeavor

    • DestinyBit

    • Frame Break

    • Green Tile Digital

    • Infinite Mana Games

    • Invisible Walls

    • Misc Games

    • Palindrome Interactive

    • Plucky Bytes

    • Rare Earth Games

    • River End Games

    • Silent Games

    • Studio Hermitage

    • Tarsier Studios

    • Vermila Studios

    • Zapper Games

  • Saber Interactive:

    • 34BigThings

    • 3D Realms

    • 4A Games

    • Aspyr:

      • Beamdog

    • Bytex

    • Demiurge Studios

    • Digic Pictures

    • Fractured Byte

    • Mad Head Games

    • New World Interactive

    • Nimble Giant Entertainment

    • Sandbox Strategies

    • Shiver Entertainment

    • Slipgate Ironworks

    • SmartPhone Labs

    • Snapshot Games

    • Tripwire Interactive

    • Tuxedo Labs

    • Zen Studios

  • DECA Games:

    • A Thinking Ape Entertainment

    • CrazyLabs:

      • Firescore Interactive

    • IUGO Mobile Entertainment

    • Jufeng Studio

  • Gearbox Entertainment:

    • Captured Dimensions

    • Cryptic Studios

    • Gearbox Publishing:

      • Gearbox Publishing San Francisco

    • Gearbox Properties

    • Gearbox Software:

      • Gearbox Montréal

      • Gearbox Québec

      • Gearbox Shanghai

    • Gearbox Studios

    • Lost Boys Interactive

  • Asmodee:

    • Access+

    • Aconyte

    • Atomic Mass Games

    • Bezzerwizzer Studio

    • Catan Studio

    • Days of Wonder

    • Edge Entertainment

    • Exploding Kittens

    • Fantasy Flight Games

    • Gamegenic

    • Libellud

    • Lookout Games

    • Mixlore

    • Pearl Games

    • Plan B Games

    • Plaid Hat Games

    • Rebel Studio

    • Repos Production

    • Space Cow

    • Space Cowboys

    • The Green Board Game Co.

    • Twin Sails Interactive

    • Unexpected Games

    • VR Group

    • Z-Man Games

    • Zygomatic Games

  • CDE Entertainment:

    • Crystal Dynamics:

      • Crystal Northwest

      • Crystal Southwest

    • Eidos-Montréal

  • Dark Horse Media:

    • Dark Horse Comics

    • Dark Horse Entertainment

    • Things from Another World


Key People:

  • Kicki Wallje-Lund (chairman)

  • Lars Wingefors (chief executive officer)

  • Erik Stenberg (deputy chief executive officer)

  • Johan Ekström (chief financial officer)


Acquisitions by Embracer Group Studios



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