In addition to making the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake, the company’s CEO also talked about how his former boss, the Embracer Group, tried to save as many jobs as possible during the reorganization process (which we wrote about the other day spins off Saber Interactive).

Beacon Interactive, led by Saber’s CEO Matthew Karch, took over Saber Interactive from the Embracer Group, essentially spinning off Embracer on its own for $247 million (even though it bought it for $525 last year!). Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake is connected to the company, which Karch told IGN about, after not hearing anything officially about it for years:

“It is clear and obvious that we are working on this, it has been mentioned in the press several times. I can say that the game is alive and well and we are committed to exceeding consumer expectations,” said Karch. Now, they may just be expecting the game to RELEASE at all, which they allegedly presented to Lucasfilm and Sony executives in July 2022, and the demo failed in front of them. At that time, the role of the developer may have changed from Aspyr to Saber, but the situation can be a bit complicated, since the company has since become independent. Maybe Embracer’s hands were tied by Disney, who owns the IP, because they want more Star Wars games.

In his interview with Gamesindustry, however, Kirch spoke optimistically about his former bosses, but admitted that they bought companies too quickly. The red line was the $2.75 billion acquisition of Asmodee, the publisher of French board games, and the $2 billion investment from the Saudi Savvy Games Group did not materialize, so the company’s balance was in the red. Nevertheless, Karch believes that Lars Wingefors should not be written off:

“In my opinion, no one was more driven by fairness and reason than Lars [Wingefors]. The process we had to go through to close the studios was absolutely… killing us. […] I would say that Embracer tried harder than anyone to save as many jobs as possible. Check out Gearbox. It just sold, right? The employees working there remained with the company until the announcement, because Lars did not want to let anyone go, he wanted to keep everyone. So I think it has a bad reputation. But I wouldn’t bet against Lars right now. He really is at the top. I haven’t heard him sound this confident in a long time, and I think they’ve scaled the company down enough (still big, but small enough) to be manageable… There are some great things that I know of that haven’t been announced yet that I think people will love they will So I trust them,” added Karch.

It is a different matter that after Gearbox migrated to Take-Two, people were still fired from there…

Source: PCGamer, WCCFTech, IGN, Gamesindustry</a >