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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody welcome to IGN Gamescube I'm your host Damon Hadfield joining me this week |
| 0:08.8 | our Tina I meanie. Hi everybody. Welcome back Sam Clayborn. Oh thanks I'm good to be back. |
| 0:16.5 | And Justin Davis. It's cool. We got a great show for you this week. We're going to talk about we're |
| 0:21.6 | going to do some imagination play sort of imagining what sort of video game mashups might be fun |
| 0:27.9 | to play if they were ever to happen in our dreams. We're going to flip through the 2002 the |
| 0:34.0 | May 2002 issue of GamePro but first very surprising news this week that Square Enix is selling |
| 0:41.7 | off its Western studios Idaas, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix Montreal to the Embracer group which is |
| 0:50.7 | a mysterious shadow organization in Sweden that over the past years has secretly been just |
| 0:56.8 | gobbling up franchises and studios left and right I think now they're going to have over 850 |
| 1:02.5 | different franchises in IP to their umbrella. Oh it's crazy. Formerly yeah formerly Nordic games |
| 1:08.8 | formerly THQ Nordic in 2019 rebranded as Embracer group. So a little bit it's the Embracer group |
| 1:16.0 | itself might sound random to be the new home of these studios and of franchises like Tomb Raider |
| 1:20.8 | and I think the fact that they are making this acquisition for the mere sum the Paul Turing sum |
| 1:26.9 | of $300 million dollars is also surprising but we'll get to that. I think hear me out I think this |
| 1:34.2 | represents the end of a chapter in the story of video games I think it's bigger than just this |
| 1:40.2 | acquisition. Alarm. It's a chapter called. Oh that's a good it's a good well maybe it'll be the |
| 1:47.3 | the headline of this video. Japan raids again which is of course a play on the second Godzilla movie |
| 1:54.5 | Godzilla raids again. Of course. Which is interesting to think of what Godzilla is doing as |
| 1:59.1 | a rating isn't it? Yeah I didn't I've never heard that title actually. That's the US that's how |
| 2:05.4 | they promoted the United States. Godzilla raids again. I don't even know maybe the actual Japanese |
| 2:10.3 | name too that's really because it wasn't Godzilla too. There's definitely next expectation that |
| 2:16.0 | he's taking things right if you're raiding. Yeah but I don't know. Live he's taking lives. I don't |
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