Embracer Group will break up itself into two separate companies–Fellowship Leisure and Embracer–in 2027, with the previous sustaining nearly all of the writer’s largest online game IP. Whereas Fellowship Leisure may have a big concentrate on franchises like Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raiders, there’ll apparently be room for a number of the firm’s different titles to thrive as properly.
Embracer’s chair of the board Lars Wingefors advised buyers that will probably be searching for companions to work on a few of Fellowship’s “different well-known IP resembling Saints Row, Legacy of Kain, Deus Ex, Purple Faction, The Masks, Thief, TimeSplitters,” and extra. Wingefors added that the corporate sees potential in teaming up with companions on a few of its AAA franchises as properly, together with Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Useless Island, Darksiders, Remnant, and Metro.
The newest try to revive Deus Ex led to a sport that was canceled as a part of Embracer’s cutbacks in 2024. Over 100 builders have been laid off from Deus Ex developer Eidos-Montreal earlier this yr. In February 2026, Saints Row director Chris Stockman shared his perception that the franchise is lifeless after he stated that Embracer ghosted his makes an attempt to revive it.
