Saber

, the Embracer Group much of Saber Interactive, which is known for the Metro series, Gloomhaven and remakes of classic Star Wars titles. The buyer is a group of private investors under the umbrella of Beacon Interactive, which is run by Saber co-founder Matthew Karch.Although Embracer says the deal is worth $247 million, it's actually worth around $500 million once liabilities are factored in, according to Bloomberg’s . That’s because Beacon is said to have to buy 4A Games and Zen Studios (the developers of the Metro…

Saber Interactive Embracer Group confirmed it is selling Saber Interactive to Beacon Interactive on Thursday morning, following rumors of a sale last month. Saber Interactive is a massive company that not only develops games like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game but also owns several studios. So, what exactly did Embracer offload? The press release announcing the sale can be a bit tough to parse with all the financial information and corporate terminology found within. We’ve put…

Swedish gaming company Embracer Group AB will sell one of its largest subsidiaries, Saber Interactive, to a group of private investors in a deal worth up to $500 million (roughly Rs. 4,142 crore), according to a person familiar with the transaction.Saber will become a privately owned company with around 3,500 employees, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing nonpublic information. The company plans to continue developing a remake of Star Wars: The Knights of the Old Republic, the highly anticipated…

Saber Interactive has reportedly found an exit strategy from the death grip of its parent company, Embracer Group AB. Bloomberg reported Thursday that “a group of private investors” will buy the studio in a deal worth roughly $500 million. Saber would then become a private company with about 3,500 employees.Engadget emailed a spokesperson from Saber for confirmation about the alleged buyout. The studio declined to comment.The alleged agreement would be one of Embracer’s most significant cost-cutting moves since the…

Bloomberg is reporting that Saber Interactive, the developers reportedly working on a remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, is being sold by Embracer Group to a private investment group. Embracer Group has been going through a massive restructuring that has seen hundreds of employees laid off and the shuttering of studios. This latest deal appears to be another part of that ongoing effort. While the state of the Knights of the Old Republic remake is currently in question, Saber Interactive is slated to…

If you’ve picked up an Apple Vision Pro and want to play Beat Saber on it, please just take it off and play on a different device for now. @iBrews could have benefitted from this advice before taking to X to show off his Beat Saber rig. In a video taken on Apple Vision Pro, he straps a Meta Quest headset on top of Apple’s revolutionary new spatial computer to use its passthrough, turning it into a glorified pair of goggles. If this sounds complicated, it is… unnecessarily so. What is interesting to point out about this…

The premiere of Marvel’s Secret Invasion series does a lot of talking about something that it never quite shows. No, it’s not the shadowy threat of Skrull invasion — it’s SABER, Nick Fury’s space station that he uses for... You know, it’s not really clear why Nick Fury has a space station. But what is clear, if you’ve been following along, is that SABER is going to be a part of the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s already cropped up in trailers for this fall’s The Marvels, and we got our first look at it…

At its PlayStation Showcase event, Sony revealed that Beat Saber, the hit music VR game, would be launching on Wednesday for the PlayStation VR2. We already knew that Beat Saber was in the works for Sony’s new VR headset, but the sudden launch is a surprise. If you already own Beat Saber for the original PSVR, you’ll get a free upgrade to the PSVR 2 version, according to the description in Sony’s YouTube trailer for the game. Alongside the release, Sony also revealed that you’ll be able to buy a Queen-themed music pack…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosThere’s more to it than that though, as voiceover from Monica begins to explain her own recently discovered powers to Kamala—an ability to “manipulate light energy,” which is a distinctly mild way of describing Monica’s abilities in the comics. There, where she has gone through many code names—including the first female Captain Marvel, Pulsar, Spectrum, and Photon—Monica’s energy abilities let her convert her physical form into any form of energy on the electromagnetic spectrum, making her an…

With two massive canines, an L-shaped jaw, and a pouch to carry its young, the saber-toothed marsupial Thylacosmilus atrox sounds like an evolutionary Madlib. But researchers have now described an extra quirk: surprisingly wide-set eyes, more typical of horses and cows than carnivorous animals.The finding makes the predator an even more intriguing specimen, raising questions about how evolution engineers predators and why the South American marsupial evolved such an uncommon ocular layout. The team’s findings are…