If you’ve not been following the journey of Embracer, let me speedrun an explanation real quick: Over the course of seven years, Embracer snapped up a bunch of companies, hit an iceberg of a sunken $2 billion dollar deal, subsequently laid off 1,400 people in six months, and scrapped a bunch of projects while selling off studios to bail water.
Recently, the hull has split three ways. Embracer will break off into Asmodee Corp, Coffee Stain & Friends, and Middle-Earth Enterprises & Friends. This is something Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors called “the start of a new chapter”. Going forward, he’ll be a shareholder in all three companies.
Looking back on the rest of the book, though, Wingefors does seem to admit that he might have messed up. Just a bit.
In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Wingefors concedes that “as a leader and an owner, sometimes you need to take the blame and you need to be humble about if you’ve made mistakes and if you could have done something differently.”
While he’s “sure I deserve a lot of criticism” and that he “could take a lot of that blame myself”, Wingefors sees the aforementioned split as a way to continue the cor…