{"id":313148,"date":"2022-06-08T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T21:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/arabia-saudita-compra-parte-da-embracer-de-games\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T18:21:45","slug":"saudi-arabia-acquires-stake-in-gaming-company-embracer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-arabia-acquires-stake-in-gaming-company-embracer\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia acquires stake in gaming company Embracer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/savvygaminggroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Savvy Gaming<\/a> group, from Saudi Arabia, acquired nearly 100 million shares of the Swedish gaming company <strong>Embracer Group<\/strong> for USD 1.05 billion, an 8.1% stake. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2099281\/business-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arab News<\/a> website, the Saudi company has become Embracer&#8217;s second-biggest shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>Savvy Gaming belongs to the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia and was established to develop the <strong>gaming and e-sports industry<\/strong> in the country. According to Arab News, the acquisition will help the Swedish company establish a regional hub in Saudi Arabia and pave the way for investments in the region. The acquired stake guarantees a weighty position in the company&#8217;s decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Embracer Group recently purchased Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and Square Enix Montreal and already controlled THQ Nordic, Koch Media, Deep Silver, Saber Interactive, and Gearbox Software, among others. Embracer&#8217;s subsidiary studios own famous titles such as Crystal Dynamics&#8217; <strong>Tomb Raider<\/strong> and Eidos Montreal&#8217;s <strong>Deus Ex<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-313145\">Press release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi gaming company Savvy Gaming has acquired 8.1% of Swedish Embracer Group for USD 1 billion. The group owns celebrated game franchises such as Tomb Raider (pictured above) and Deus ex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":313145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[32220,32221,32222,32223,32232,32224,32225,32226,32233,32234,32227,32228,32229,32230],"class_list":{"0":"post-313148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-deep-silver-en","9":"tag-deus-ex-en","10":"tag-embracer-en","11":"tag-embracer-group-en","12":"tag-game-industry","13":"tag-industria-de-games-en","14":"tag-koch-media-en","15":"tag-saber-interactive-en","16":"tag-saudi-games","17":"tag-saudi-gaming","18":"tag-saudita-games-en","19":"tag-savvy-gaming-en","20":"tag-thq-nordic-en","21":"tag-tomb-raider-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Saudi gaming company Savvy Gaming has acquired 8.1% of Swedish Embracer Group for USD 1 billion. The group owns celebrated game franchises such as Tomb Raider (pictured above) and Deus ex.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}