Lara moves into an apartment
Business earthquake:
The Japanese company Square Enix, best known as the developer of the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series and the distributor of Tomb Raider games (as well as Deus Ex, Thief and Legacy of Kain), has sold three leading Western development houses it owns (Crystal Dynamics, Eidos And Square Enix Montreal) for the Swedish Embracer Group.
The deal is estimated at $ 300 million, a small amount of money for a super-brand like Tomb Raider.
The bottom line is that Lara Croft, a cultural icon and the greatest video game heroine of all time with sales of about 88 million copies (and yes, there is a new Tomb Raider game in development), has found herself a new European home in the form of Embracer, a rising power in the gaming industry. The Gearbox Studios (Borderlands series), and even holds the Darksiders brand (and a few other relatively negligible brands).
We would not be surprised if in a few years Embracer becomes one of the major players in the video game industry.
Square Enix, on the other hand, has not completely given up on the international arena, and still stays with quality game series like Just Cause and Life is Strange.
There is also talk that the company is interested in investing in the blockchain and NFT fields to please its investors, but this thought does us harm in the soul.
We do not want NFT to push us for games, thank you.
Lara Croft,
Monsters of Glory
Three more titles have joined the Video Games Hall of Fame - a venture launched in 2015 that pays homage to "games that have impacted the world," according to organizers.
The glittering trio of 2022 includes the action-adventure hit The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998, Nintendo 64);
The memorable strategy classic Sid Meier's Civilization (1991, for all the platforms you want);
And the pledge Ms.
Pac-Man (1982, Arcade Halls), whose game is considered by many to be more successful than that of its beloved, Pac-Man (we will not take a stand, because we advocate for home peace).
Among the other games that have received the ultimate honor and been chosen to the Hall of Fame in recent years can be known names like Super Mario, Tetris, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Sims, Street Fighter 2, Pokemon, Tomb Raider, Halo, Minecraft, and in short - names that can be written in Hebrew and be sure everyone knows them.
Entered the Hall of Fame.
Peck-man,
Dungeons and Suplexes
In WWE, the most successful wrestling brand in the world, working on a video game that is not, hold on tight to the ropes, a wrestling game.
Like what ?!
In a surprising move, WWE Branding Director Stephanie McMahon announced that in addition to the standard wrestling titles the league puts out in partnership with Take Two (WWE 2K and WWE Battlegrounds), a role-playing game (!) Will soon be announced in the WWE world.
We would have been happy to provide more details beyond Mrs McMahon's mysterious statement, but that's all she has - and us - to offer at the moment.
Come to think of it, the whole thing of creating a wrestler character from scratch already exists in WWE2K's career mode, so it's really hard to assess what's in store for us there.
Perhaps a more developed and significant plot situation, where the actor's choices really affect what's going on?
Or maybe an action-role-play where the good guys fight the bad guys and try to save the world outside the wrestling arena?
Or something more in the direction of Mortal Kombat 11?
And what about enchanted chairs?
Must have enchanted chairs.
The Rock in WWE
Royal gold
Would you be willing to pay at least $ 3,000 for a Nintendo Wii console?
And on a gold-plated Nintendo Wii console?
And on a gold-plated Nintendo Wii console, designed to promote the neglected Big Family Games party game of 2009, and was supposed to be sent to the British royal family as a marketing gimmick on behalf of THQ?
The Queen of England never played with her gilded console, which eventually found its way to a collector named Donny.
The same Donny tried to sell the console on eBay about two years ago for the delusional price of $ 300,000, but no one agreed to open his bitcoin wallet.
Anyway, it seems that whoever preferred to wait with the purchase has made the right move, because now the gilded royal console has popped up at this auction site, at a much more sane price.
In addition to the device itself you will receive one controller, a copy of the game, all the necessary cables and also an official certificate of originality, so you can be sure that this is really a living sent to the Queen of England, and not, say, a cousin of the Duke of Mercury.
Undecided?
The auction will end on May 22, and since a new offer is published every few hours, you should reset yourself before it's too late.
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