Embracer Group recently came back under the spotlight with the acquisition news. They acquired a few franchises from Square Enix, and this time they are making a very different move. The company announced its game preservation initiative called the Embracer Games Archive. The goal of this initiative is defined as “archiving and saving as much of the videogames industry as possible.”
The Embracer Games Archive has so far collected “50,000 games, consoles, and accessories” in its vault in Karlstad, Sweden. The team consists of a CEO, archivist, assistant, technical engineer and supply manager. Their collection is currently not publicly available, or accessible for research purposes. But they have some plans to construct a database of this collection and making it available for research, academic purposes and partially for public use.
