Eidos Montreal, the studio behind current Thief and Deus Ex video games, say they’re “now the proprietor of the video games [we] developed, just like the Deus Ex and Thief video games.” Likewise, Crystal Dynamics say they’ve taken “management” of its Tomb Raider and Legacy Of Kain video games from their earlier proprietor, Sq. Enix.
Which appears like a giant deal, however actually each studios are simply reporting a change to their phrases of service and privateness notices since they had been purchased by Embracer Group final month.
Embracer Group accomplished their $300 million (round £253 million) acquisition of Sq. Enix’s western studios final month.
As such, Crystal Dynamics introduced immediately thjat they’ve been made the controller of “the gameplay and private knowledge associated to” their video games. Eidos Montreal, in the meantime, wrote in an analogous announcement that they had been now “the controller of the information obtained from the varied gameplay metrics tracked in its titles.”
In a monetary report across the time the acquisition was first introduced, Embracer wrote that they noticed “nice potential, not solely in sequels, but additionally in remakes, remasters, spinoffs in addition to transmedia initiatives” associated to the IP they had been buying. That would come with Deus Ex, Tomb Raider and Legacy Of Kain.
Embracer have not stopped shopping for issues even because the Sq. Enix deal was introduced. Final month they acquired Killing Flooring builders Tripwire Interactive, in addition to Teardown builders Tuxedo Labs and the corporate who personal the rights to make video games and different media based mostly on The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit.