{"id":54148,"date":"2026-05-21T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54148"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:17:37","slug":"franchises-like-deus-ex-and-timesplitters-might-just-have-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54148","title":{"rendered":"Franchises Like Deus Ex And TimeSplitters Might Just Have A Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4698762-legacyofkain.jpg?w=300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Embracer Group will split itself into two separate companies&#8211;Fellowship Entertainment and Embracer&#8211;in 2027, with the former maintaining the majority of the publisher&#8217;s biggest video game IP. While Fellowship Entertainment will have a large focus on franchises like Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raiders, there will apparently be room for some of the company&#8217;s other titles to thrive as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Embracer&#8217;s chair of the board Lars Wingefors told investors that it will be seeking partners to work on some of Fellowship&#8217;s &#8220;other well-known IP such as Saints Row, Legacy of Kain, Deus Ex, Red Faction, The Mask, Thief, TimeSplitters,&#8221; and more. Wingefors added that the company sees potential in teaming up with partners on some of its AAA franchises as well, including Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Dead Island, Darksiders, Remnant, and Metro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most recent attempt to revive Deus Ex&nbsp;led to a game that was canceled&nbsp;as part of Embracer&#8217;s cutbacks in 2024. Over&nbsp;100 developers were laid off&nbsp;from Deus Ex developer Eidos-Montreal earlier this year. In February 2026, Saints Row director Chris Stockman shared&nbsp;his belief that the franchise is dead&nbsp;after he said that Embracer ghosted his attempts to revive it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dark Horse Comics&#8211;which was purchased by Embracer in 2022&#8211;will play a role in utilizing the company&#8217;s IP, and Embracer&#8217;s announcement noted the publisher&#8217;s &#8220;long track record of co-producing film and TV shows with partners in Hollywood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of Embracer&#8217;s investor presentation, Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios revealed that it&#8217;s working on&nbsp;an open-world Middle-earth RPG&nbsp;set in the Lord of the Rings franchise. Warhorse also noted that it&#8217;s developing a new Kingdom Come adventure, but didn&#8217;t share many details beyond that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Embracer&#8217;s next big titles is the return of its Metro franchise. This winter,\u00a0Metro 2039 will revive the series\u00a0after a seven-year hiatus by introducing a new main character. It will be available on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/embracer-could-bring-back-franchises-like-deus-ex-timesplitters\/1100-6540070\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embracer Group will split itself into two separate companies&#8211;Fellowship Entertainment and Embracer&#8211;in 2027, with the former maintaining the majority of the publisher&#8217;s biggest video game&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14980,2063,2562,23149],"class_list":["post-54148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-deus","tag-franchises","tag-future","tag-timesplitters","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}