{"id":79009,"date":"2026-05-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79009"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:38:14","slug":"franchises-like-deus-ex-and-timesplitters-might-just-have-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79009","title":{"rendered":"Franchises Like Deus Ex And TimeSplitters Might Just Have A Future"},"content":{"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 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>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>The most recent attempt to revive Deus Ex <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/deus-ex-game-canceled-amid-embracers-ongoing-cost-cutting-report-says\/1100-6520668\/\">led to a game that was canceled<\/a> as part of Embracer&#8217;s cutbacks in 2024. Over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/deus-ex-dev-eidos-montreal-conducts-mass-layoffs-affecting-124-people\/1100-6539106\/\">100 developers were laid off<\/a> from Deus Ex developer Eidos-Montreal earlier this year. In February 2026, Saints Row director Chris Stockman shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/saints-row-director-believes-the-franchise-is-dead\/1100-6538334\/\">his belief that the franchise is dead<\/a> after he said that Embracer ghosted his attempts to revive it.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Horse Comics&#8211;which was purchased by Embracer in 2022&#8211;will<\/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 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":79011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79012,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79009\/revisions\/79012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}