Take-Two Interactive has finally welcomed
Gearbox Entertainment
into the fold.
Years after fans wondered why Take-Two doesn't Gearbox, the sale is now official after Embracer Group confirmed that it's selling the makers of the Borderlands franchise to Rockstar Games' parent company for $460 million, three years after it paid $1.3 billion for the same company. Included in Gearbox's sale are its Frisco, Texas headquarters and other branches located in Montréal and Quebec.
With the sale, Take-Two will now officially own the rights to Duke Nukem, Brother in Arms, Homeworld, and of course, Borderlands and the wildly successful spin-off, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. But not everything is going with the firesale. Embracer is retaining the publishing rights to Hyper Light Breaker and Remnant as well as Gearbox Publishing San Francisco, which it will rename before the deal pushes through.
It wasn't too long ago that Embracer was doing all the buying. It famously took Square Enix's western subsidiaries off its for a ludicrously low price considering what they got in return.