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Embracer Group acquires Aspyr Media for up to $450 million

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Embracer Group subsidiary Saber Interactive has agreed to buy Aspyr Media for $100 million, plus $350 million in possible bonuses.

The deal is the third one of the day for Embracer Group, which also said today that it paid $1.3 billion for Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment and $640 million for mobile game maker Easybrain.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.