Legacy of Kain?? The last time there was a Kain game was on PS2.
There was technically a multiplayer game set in the universe that made it to open beta in 2015 and lasted a year or so in that before being canned. See "nosgoth", mostly seems to be a victim of trying to be a moba/dota clone while also doing the class based thing and because it was... that year when it was announced then of course asymmetric was the hot and sexy thing to pursue.
Anyone know the other 50-odd games they have acquired?
I don't think we have a straight up list at this point. Generally anything the three companies had a hand in is probably going to be on the cards.
https://embracer.com/release/embrac...nd-square-enix-montreal-amongst-other-assets/ is basically all we have at this point. There is apparently a presentation on it due "2 May 2022 at CET 09.00." for "investors, analysts and media" so hopefully someone gives any extra details from that if there are any.
Still a bit of digging seems in order. I did very little "who owns this now" research as part of this and some are not necessarily what you would expect.
In addition to Deus Ex, Tomb Raider and the others noted elsewhere
Square Enix Montreal was after the 2009 buyout of Eidos. Mobile spinoffs for Hitman and Deus Ex was their goal so nothing of great interest, though they do apparently have some kind of rights to a space invaders game.
Eidos-Montréal (a separate entity despite being in the same place as above) was a Canadian branch of Eidos set up not so very long before the Square Enix buyout in 2009. Modern Deus Ex and modern Thief (was not good, play Dishonored instead or even
https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/ if you want more of the old school Thief gameplay -- it started as a mod but went standalone, serious candidate for best ever mod/fan continuation of things for any game/platform/time period). Shadow of the Tomb Raider in 2018 and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy last year finishing the list of things they had a hand in.
Eidos themselves is a more fun story. They have a whole bunch of stuff, and also did a weird merger/renaming effort with SCi just prior to Square Enix buying them in 2009 (for £84.3 million, so not a bad return on investment then) so they probably have a bunch of stuff from SCi as well. Carmageddon is probably the more famous of SCi's efforts*, which was bought from Square Enix by the original game's devs (
https://gbatemp.net/review/carmageddon-max-damage.479/ ) and then eventually sold to THQ Nordic (which for many is the public face of the Embracer group). Fans of western shmups though might note that S.W.I.V. might be on the cards for a rerelease now, and there is the conflict series (once a fairly well respected tactical shooter, the last entry in the series was Conflict Denied Ops on the 360 which... if I don't want to play a local co-op game it is bad. If you were to compare it to that year's Rainbow 6 vegas 2 or its prequel then not even close).
SCi also held a decent stake in Rocksteady Studios (Batman Arkham games) but that is not mentioned in this.
https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/sci-games-ltd/offset,0/so,1a/list-games/ if you wanted a list of things here for SCi. A lot of it is licensed games though so don't expect too much to appear again, though film makers are rediscovering revenues in old stuff from streaming so there is some possibility they will have some game income as well.
*I certainly can't see the logo without the announcer being what my brain goes to next
Eidos themselves...
https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/eidos-inc/offset,0/so,1a/list-games/
Lot of decent strategy games in there that I had forgotten about (Gangsters and the Commandos franchise being notable ones here).
Might include Pandemonium (most will know the cover and possibly the gameplay), Omikron: The Nomad Soul (David Cage's first game), Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage is also in there somewhere so with the recent surge in popularity of that then maybe we see it again (it always littered Dreamcast shelves whenever I went in game shops but I saw some footage a while back and it was actually quite good, missed trick on my part really) but I think they were more an outside Japan publisher there than anything with real rights.
I don't know who owns Gex (a mid tier 3d platformer, if you are going to explore a few 32 bit platformers go with Rare's efforts and Mario 64, but justifiably has its fans) after all this and that will need some digging but could be on the cards.
Crystal Dynamics are also attached to the new Perfect Dark title (
https://gbatemp.net/threads/perfect...painfully-slowly-dozens-of-staff-quit.609311/ )
Sticking with shooters then I should note Project Snowblind is probably in the mix here. Largely forgotten today it will probably be remembered in the future as a missing link in shooter development -- it is not a great game overall but mechanics they nailed.
For the sake of a complete set of links then crystal dynamics, though most of that is included in Eidos.
https://www.mobygames.com/company/crystal-dynamics-inc
Lot more than 50 games in there, even if I take out licensed games. I am not particularly expecting any surprises though.
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