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Swedish Company Embracer Buys Borderlands Dev Gearbox For $1.35 Billion

Embracer also owns THQ Nordic and Koch Media.

Embracer is on track to becoming the Tencent of Scandinavia, having already added THQ Nordic and Koch Media to its portfolio of games studios, and now expanding even further with the acquisition of Gearbox Studios.

Gearbox, the makers of Borderlands, Battleborn, Bulletstorm, Brothers in Arms, and many other games that don’t begin with ‘B’, is run by CEO Randy Pitchford, who will be staying on as boss despite messy lawsuits that allege misuse of company funds and lewd behaviour.

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