Embracer Games Archive Stays Active, CEO Boström Says
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After the Embracer group splits into three new companies, the large private games collection of Embracer Games Archive will remain secure, Archive CEO David Boström assured GamesMarkt. Under what parent company is still to be discussed, however.
While the daughter firms and labels of the announced three-part-split at Embracer are officially sorted into the three new companies, even though we are still waiting on the official names for two of the new comglomerates, one prestige project of Embracer and its CEO Wingefors remained in question.
The Embracer Games Archive, founded in 2021 and currently consisting of about 80,000 different games and game version according to the website, will remain intact after the split of the company. Archive CEO David Boström confirmed the fact after a request by GamesMarkt.
“I can reassure you by saying that the archive will remain with the same goals and ambitions as before. Where we will be structured within the organization is not clear yet. But as the discussions progress, I believe it will be for the better for the archive,” Boström states in an answer on a GamesMarkt query.
It is reasonable to assume that the archive will either be part of Middle-earth Enterprises and Friends (MEEF, working title) or Coffee Stain & Friends (working title), since the third new conglomerate, Asmodee Group, is more concerned with board games and their digital licences than with the overall space of video games. With the announcement that MEEF will be the AAA focused company in comparison to Coffee Stain & Friends’ indie and AA approach, assumptions could be made that the archive will find a more natural fit into the MEEF structure. That is, however, still speculation; since Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors explained he would be integrated into all three new company structures in some way, his archival project might well travel to the company he believes it to be most effective in.
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